Spring Hill, TN Fire Regulations: Smoke Detectors (2026)

Section 13-302 applies before any building or any part of a building is used for housing more than two occupants as a boarding house or rooming house, and the smoke detector requirement is one item on its list. Subsection (E) sets a ceiling at least seven feet high and one working smoke detector in each room. The rest of the list is specific too: 70 square feet of floor space for a room occupied by one person plus 50 additional square feet for each additional person; at least one bathroom for each four sleeping rooms, with a bath tub or shower and a wash basin providing hot and cold running water and at least 30 square feet of floor space; a window opening directly to the outdoors in each sleeping room, with an area at least 8% of the floor area; a maximum of 30 feet of travel to an exit from any sleeping facility; and compliance with any Housing Code adopted by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

The Board adopted the chapter in § 13-301 to prevent unsafe and unsanitary conditions in rooming and boarding houses. No entity can use a building this way without a license from the Building Inspector under § 13-303, the Building Inspector inspects the premises before granting it under § 13-304, and § 13-305 authorizes inspection at all reasonable times. The city's fire code is a separate instrument. Section 7-202 adopts the 2018 edition of the International Fire Code, including Appendix D, by reference, and § 7-203 assigns enforcement to the Fire Chief, the Fire Marshal and designated Fire Inspectors.