Lane County, OR Fire Regulations: Smoke Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing law
- ORS 479.250–479.305
- Required locations
- Each level, outside and inside bedrooms
- Rental responsibility
- Owner supplies and maintains
- Ionization alarms
- 10-year sealed battery required
- Habitability
- Required under ORS 90.320
Summary
Oregon law requires working smoke alarms on every level of a home, outside sleeping areas, and inside bedrooms where building code requires. For rentals, the landlord must supply, install, and maintain the alarms and provide written testing instructions to the tenant.
The owner of any rental dwelling unit or the owner's authorized agent shall be responsible for supplying, installing and maintaining the required smoke alarms or smoke detectors and shall provide a written notice containing instructions for testing of the devices.
Full Breakdown
Statewide fire-protection law (ORS 479.250–479.305) sets Oregon's smoke-alarm requirements, which apply throughout Lane County. Alarms are required on each level of the home including the basement, outside bedrooms within about 21 feet of bedroom doors, and inside each bedroom where required by the building code in effect at construction or remodel. For rental dwellings, ORS 479.270 makes the owner responsible for supplying, installing, and maintaining the required smoke alarms and for giving the tenant written testing instructions when they take possession. Ionization-only alarms sold in Oregon must have a ten-year sealed battery and a hush button. Tenants must test alarms and replace ordinary batteries during the tenancy.
Violations & Fines
Smoke alarms are a habitability requirement under ORS 90.320 for rentals; failure to supply or maintain them can expose a landlord to habitability liability and fire-code penalties.
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