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Fire commission backs ordinance to require tenant smoke-alarm notices, alarm-system compliance
Summary
The San Francisco Fire Commission voted to support Board file 160422, which would require residential building owners to provide annual smoke-alarm notices in multiple languages, file biennial statements of compliance, and phase in alarm upgrades by July 1, 2021 or when $50,000 in construction occurs.
The San Francisco Fire Commission on June 8 voted to support a Board of Supervisors ordinance (File 160422) that would require residential property owners to give tenants annual written notice of smoke-alarm requirements and to register periodic compliance statements for alarm testing and inspection.
Carolyn Goosen, legislative aide to Supervisor Campos, introduced the proposal and said it was the product of a fire task force convened after several fatal fires in District 9. "First it requires building owners to provide residential tenants with an annual written notice of smoke alarm requirements," Goosen said, adding that notices would be posted in English, Spanish and Chinese.
The ordinance would also require owners of residential…
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