File Code: Public Safety
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Ross, Gaines, and Healey
- Entitled:
-
Public Safety - Fire Alarm Systems - Modification for Hearing
Impaired Condominium Owner
Requiring that a condominium's council of unit owners, or its agent,
modify the wiring of the building's fire alarm system and install
visual fire alarms on written request of a unit owner who is deaf or
hearing impaired; specifying the placement of the visual fire alarms
in specified areas of the owner's unit and requiring the alarms to
meet specified national standards; requiring the unit owner to pay up
to $200 of the costs; and requiring that the modification comply with
local fire and building codes and the State Fire Prevention Code.
House Action
- 2/13
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Justin D. Ross, District 22
- Delegate Tawanna P. Gaines, District 22
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CONDOMINIUMS
- DEAF PERSONS
- DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND; DEAF; DEVELOPMENTAL
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- FIRE PROTECTION
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Public Safety
- (
9-102 ,
9-102.1
)
- Real Property
- (
11-101 ,
11-109
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
