Newark CO Chapter 1610 adopts the Ohio Fire Code, which incorporates the Residential Code of Ohio requirement that all dwellings have working smoke alarms in every sleeping room, outside each sleeping area, and on every story including basements.
Newark Codified Ordinances Chapter 1610 adopts the Ohio Fire Code by reference. The Ohio Residential Code (which the OFC enforces in dwellings) requires smoke alarms in every sleeping room, in the hallway immediately outside each sleeping area, and on every story of the dwelling including basements but excluding uninhabitable attics and crawl spaces. New construction and major alterations after 2016 require interconnected, hardwired alarms with battery backup. Landlords are responsible for working alarms at the start of tenancy under Newark Property Maintenance Code (Ch. 1448, adopted by Ord. 08-17, which incorporates the International Property Maintenance Code §704.2).
Lack of working smoke alarms is a fire code and property maintenance code violation - typically a first-degree misdemeanor under Ohio R.C. 3737.51 (up to $1,000 and 180 days jail) and the basis for an unfit-for-occupancy order.
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