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Commission backs ordinance requiring annual tenant smoke-alarm notices and biannual compliance filings
Summary
The Building Inspection Commission unanimously supported Board of Supervisors file 160,422, which requires landlords to give tenants annual written notice of smoke-alarm requirements, mandates more robust fire-alarm audibility standards and establishes post-fire action-plan steps aimed at helping displaced tenants.
The Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously May 18 to support an ordinance (Board of Supervisors file 160,422) that would amend the fire and housing codes to require building owners to provide tenants with an annual written notice about smoke-alarm rules and to file statements of compliance for fire-alarm testing and inspection every two years.
The legislation, introduced to the commission by Carolyn Goosen, legislative aide to Supervisor David Campos, grew out of a task force convened after a spate of Mission District fires, Goosen said. "The legislation before you arises out of the many tragedies we've seen in the Mission," she said, adding the proposal also includes an "action plan to actually help tenants who are the victims of a fire." The action plan calls for immediate tenant information after a fire and a series…
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