Friday, September 9, 2011

Carbon monoxide-detector law starts July 1 - Denver Business Journal:

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The alarms are mandatory becausw of HouseBill 1091, passed by the Coloradp Legislature this year and signed into law by Gov. Bill Ritter in The new law relates to houses that are for sale and rental housing such as apartments that are leased tonew tenants. It requirex that sellers/landlords of such homes provide well-functioning carbon monoxids alarmsnear bedrooms, if the home has the following: attached garage. Mobile and manufactured homes also are coveree bythe law. Any building permit issuex for the construction of a new home or upgrades to an existingg home is subject to thesame provisions. Alar m installation costs an estimatee $40 per unit, according to the state.
Colorado enacted the alarm law partly because of several death s attributed to carbon monoxidde poisoning from November 2008 to the end of last including a Denver family spending the Thanksgivingb holidayin Aspen. Roughly 170 people a year die in the Unitecd States from carbon monoxide produced bymalfunctioning fuel-burning appliance s such as furnaces, stoves and waterd heaters, according to SAFEbuilt Thousands more receive emergency treatment. SAFEbuilt part of SAFEbuilt Inc.
of Loveland, contracts with several Coloradop municipalities to perform services such as building inspections andplan

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