Louisiana law requires every one- or two-family dwelling to contain an operable ten-year sealed-lithium-battery smoke detector at the time it is sold or leased, plus a carbon-monoxide detector. This applies statewide, including East Baton Rouge Parish.
Louisiana Revised Statute 40:1581 governs smoke detectors in one- and two-family dwellings. It requires that at the point of sale or lease the home contains at minimum an operable ten-year sealed lithium-battery smoke detector, and also an operable carbon-monoxide detector with a long-life sealed battery (which may be combined with the smoke detector). The rule was strengthened by Act 163 of 2009, effective January 2011. New construction must meet the smoke-alarm provisions of the adopted Louisiana building/fire code, which the parish enforces. Landlords and sellers, not just occupants, carry the duty to have working detectors installed.
Failure to provide required detectors at sale or lease violates state law and can expose an owner to liability; local building/fire inspectors enforce alarm requirements in new and renovated construction.
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