Taylorsville, UT Fire Regulations: Smoke Detectors (2026)

Chapter 5.76, Rental Dwelling Unit, sets the baseline habitability standards every landlord operating a rental dwelling unit or accessory dwelling unit in Taylorsville must meet, and § 5.76.080(B) puts a working smoke detector in that list: at least one operable unit is required for each room that is occupied or intended for sleeping purposes. It follows immediately after the requirement to provide at least one operable sink, toilet, tub, and shower with hot water of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and precedes heating sufficient to maintain at least 72 degrees Fahrenheit, so the smoke detector duty is treated as a core habitability item rather than a separate fire-code afterthought.

Applicants for a rental dwelling license must certify compliance with applicable safety and building code in writing on the license application itself, per § 5.76.030(D), and the City can require a rental license for every building and unit at the property under § 5.76.020. For accessory dwelling units specifically, the construction-standards list in § 13.11.010(B)(11)(h) goes further and requires the smoke detector to be interconnected with a carbon monoxide detector, tying back to International Residential Code §§ 314.2.2 and 315.2.2, so an ADU landlord effectively answers to both the general rental smoke-detector duty and the ADU-specific interconnected-detector standard at once.