Ohio requires approved smoke detectors in every dwelling unit, installed just outside all sleeping rooms and audible in the bedrooms with doors closed (ORC 3781.104 and the Residential Code of Ohio). Landlords must provide working alarms in rentals.
Ohio Revised Code 3781.104 requires each dwelling unit to have board-approved smoke detector devices installed in the immediate vicinity of, but outside, all sleeping rooms, with alarm signals clearly audible in every bedroom when intervening doors are closed. The Residential Code of Ohio requires smoke alarms in new and substantially altered one- and two-family homes inside each sleeping room, outside each sleeping area, and on every level. In rentals, Ohio landlord-tenant law makes the landlord responsible for providing and maintaining working alarms, while tenants must give written notice of any missing or malfunctioning detector. Local fire codes may add point-of-sale or permit-triggered alarm requirements.
Missing or non-working detectors can trigger housing- and fire-code enforcement, occupancy orders, and fines; a landlord who fails to maintain alarms after written notice may face liability and code penalties.
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