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Committee advances ordinance requiring tenant notice and owner compliance on fire alarms
Summary
A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee advanced an ordinance that would require tenants to receive annual written notice of smoke-alarm rules and require building owners to file compliance statements after annual fire-alarm testing; the committee adopted amendments and forwarded the item to the full Board as amended.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Wednesday advanced an ordinance intended to strengthen fire-safety communication and enforcement in multiunit buildings, forwarding the measure to the full Board with amendments.
The ordinance — introduced as Item 2 — would require owners to provide tenants an annual written notice about smoke-alarm requirements and would require building owners to file a statement of compliance with annual fire-alarm testing and inspection every two years. "We are requiring owners to provide information in English, Spanish, [and] Chinese," the ordinance’s author told the committee,…
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