Macon-Bibb County, GA Fire Regulations: Smoke Detectors (2026)

The smoke detector mandate is one of ten minimum health and safety standards listed in Section 13-24 that a manufactured home, mobile home, or pre-owned manufactured home must meet before the Department of Business Development Services will issue a certificate of occupancy under Section 13-23(h). Item (10) specifically requires one operable battery-powered smoke detector in each bedroom and in the kitchen, installed according to the manufacturer's recommendations; it sits alongside companion standards in the same section covering sound floors and walls, weathertight exteriors, working plumbing with a kitchen sink and at least one bathroom with a tub or shower, safe and vented heating with unvented heaters prohibited, an electrical system that passes a continuity test, a working water heater, and operable egress windows in every bedroom.

Because Section 13-22 defines 'the jurisdiction' as the area that formerly comprised unincorporated Bibb County before the 2014 city-county merger, this specific smoke-detector rule is tied to that manufactured-housing article rather than announced as a county-wide residential mandate covering every dwelling. 00 each, if the home is not yet compliant. A home that still lacks required smoke detectors, or otherwise fails to meet Section 13-24, on its third inspection has its permit revoked under Section 13-25 and must be removed from the jurisdiction at the owner's expense.