Nebraska state law requires the owner of every rental dwelling, apartment, mobile home, or lodging unit to supply, install, maintain, and test smoke detectors. Detectors must meet State Fire Marshal placement rules, and Lincoln enforces the 2021 International Fire Code for new construction.
Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-5,144 makes the owner or authorized agent of every apartment house, dwelling, hotel, lodging house, dormitory, or mobile home responsible for supplying, installing, maintaining, and testing smoke detectors in units occupied a month or more by the same occupant. Under 81-5,143 detectors must be mounted per the State Fire Marshal's rules on number and location, and every unit built or remodeled on or after January 1, 1982 must have operating detectors. Occupants test the alarms and replace batteries and must report deficiencies in writing. Lincoln adopted the 2021 International Fire Code (LMC 19.03.010), which governs alarm requirements for new and existing construction.
Failure of an owner to provide required detectors is a state fire-code violation; Lincoln Fire & Rescue and the State Fire Marshal enforce smoke-alarm requirements in rental and new construction.
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