(A) The owner of a dwelling is responsible for supplying and installing the smoke detectors in rental dwellings and housing and shall provide the tenant at the time the tenant takes possession of the dwelling written or verbal instructions, or both, for testing the detectors and replacing batteries in battery-powered detectors.
(B) The tenant of a rental dwelling shall notify the owner in writing of any deficiencies in the performance of the smoke detectors. The owner must be considered notified upon delivery of the written notice at the place of business of the owner through which the rental agreement was made or at any place held out by him as the place of receipt for the payment of rent or other communications.
(C) Upon written notification by the tenant that a smoke detector is deficient, the owner shall repair or replace the detector within fifteen days. No obligation is created hereby for the owner to replace or repair a detector that he determines upon visual inspection or testing has been deliberately tampered with, damaged, or destroyed by the tenant or any person authorized to reside in the residence by the tenant and notifies the tenant in writing of these findings. The owner may repair or replace a detector that he determines has been deliberately tampered with, damaged, or destroyed by the tenant or any person authorized by the tenant to reside in the residence and may assess against the tenant the actual cost of the repair or replacement of the detector.
(D) No obligation is created hereby for the owner to provide batteries for battery-powered detectors allowed under Section 5-25-1320.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 524, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 25 - Building Codes And Fire Prevention
Section 5-25-10. Application of chapter.
Section 5-25-40. Fire alarm boxes in hospitals and public schools.
Section 5-25-50. Amount of explosives, inflammable liquids and matches that may be kept.
Section 5-25-110. Chief of fire department.
Section 5-25-120. Inspectors of buildings.
Section 5-25-130. Deputy building inspector.
Section 5-25-140. Electrical inspector.
Section 5-25-150. Review of actions or orders of inspector by city council.
Section 5-25-170. Report to State Fire Marshal.
Section 5-25-180. Fee for inquiry; from whom derived.
Section 5-25-190. Procedure and penalty in cases of criminal carelessness.
Section 5-25-200. Procedure when municipality fails to appoint inspector.
Section 5-25-210. Penalties; enforcement.
Section 5-25-310. Building permit.
Section 5-25-320. Inspections and certificate of compliance.
Section 5-25-330. Permit for moving building.
Section 5-25-340. Right to enter premises.
Section 5-25-350. Reports of noncompliance.
Section 5-25-360. Quarterly inspections of premises within fire limits; reports.
Section 5-25-370. Annual inspections required.
Section 5-25-380. Procedure in case of defective or illegal construction.
Section 5-25-390. Notice to repair unsafe buildings.
Section 5-25-400. Approval required of proposed alterations.
Section 5-25-410. Effect of failure of owner to correct defects in new building.
Section 5-25-420. Penalty if owner of unsafe and dangerous building fails to remedy defects.
Section 5-25-430. Removal of notice is a misdemeanor.
Section 5-25-440. Records kept by inspector.
Section 5-25-450. Reports of inspections.
Section 5-25-460. Misconduct of inspector.
Section 5-25-470. Fees for inspections; compensation of inspectors.
Section 5-25-480. Inspection fees in cities of 70,000 or more.
Section 5-25-610. Height of buildings; floor area between fire walls.
Section 5-25-620. Height of frame buildings.
Section 5-25-630. Openings in walls; standard fire doors; windows.
Section 5-25-650. Structures around chimneys, flues and fireplaces.
Section 5-25-660. Construction of fireplaces and chimneys.
Section 5-25-670. Additional regulations as to chimneys.
Section 5-25-680. Construction of flues.
Section 5-25-690. Hanging flues.
Section 5-25-700. Stovepipe construction.
Section 5-25-710. Correction of dangerous chimneys, flues or heating apparatus.
Section 5-25-720. Foundry chimneys.
Section 5-25-730. Steam pipes.
Section 5-25-740. Heater pipes.
Section 5-25-750. Registers, register boxes and cold-air ducts for hot-air furnaces.
Section 5-25-760. Ranges and stoves.
Section 5-25-770. Combustible floors under coal ranges.
Section 5-25-780. Protection of woodwork near boilers, furnaces and similar appliances.
Section 5-25-790. Gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal stoves or heating devices.
Section 5-25-800. Gas connections.
Section 5-25-810. Electric wiring.
Section 5-25-820. Inspections of new electrical wiring; alterations.
Section 5-25-830. Stair and elevator shafts; partitions.
Section 5-25-840. Door openings in stair and elevator enclosures.
Section 5-25-850. Skylights covering stairway, elevator or dumbwaiter shaft.
Section 5-25-860. Interior light or vent shafts; dumbwaiter shafts.
Section 5-25-870. Restrictions as to openings in a roof for admission of light or air.
Section 5-25-880. Required means of egress.
Section 5-25-890. Stairways; exit doors.
Section 5-25-900. Firestopping construction on floor levels.
Section 5-25-910. Construction of areaways.
Section 5-25-920. Rows of frame houses.
Section 5-25-930. Buildings outside of fire limits of incombustible material.
Section 5-25-940. Construction not provided for in this chapter.
Section 5-25-1110. Municipalities shall pass fire limit ordinances.
Section 5-25-1120. Manner in which buildings in fire limits shall be constructed.
Section 5-25-1130. No frame structures shall be built or moved within fire limits; exceptions.
Section 5-25-1140. Construction of certain buildings in fire limits.
Section 5-25-1150. Repairs to roofs within fire limits.
Section 5-25-1160. Removal of damaged frame buildings.
Section 5-25-1320. Battery-operated detectors permitted in certain existing dwellings.
Section 5-25-1360. Enforcement of article by State Fire Marshal or local fire official.