HB0868 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0868

Introduced 2/7/2007, by Rep. Robert S. Molaro

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

430 ILCS 135/20

Amends the Carbon Monoxide Alarm Detector Act. Exempts any facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from the requirements of the Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Carbon Monoxide Alarm Detector Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:

(430 ILCS 135/20)

Sec. 20. Exemptions. The following residential units shall not require carbon monoxide detectors:

(1) A residential unit in a building that: (i) does not rely on combustion of fossil fuel for heat, ventilation, or hot water; (ii) is not connected in any way to a garage; and (iii) is not sufficiently close to any ventilated source of carbon monoxide, as determined by the local building commissioner, to receive carbon monoxide from that source.

(2) A residential unit that is not sufficiently close to any source of carbon monoxide so as to be at risk of receiving carbon monoxide from that source, as determined by the local building commissioner.

(3) Any facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act.

(Source: P.A. 94-741, eff. 1-1-07.)