Last night's MBFAA www.mbfaa.com general meeting was packed with attendees and information. Experts discussed Carbon Monoxide systems, Nassau County's requirements and the new New York City requirements.
The NYC law is on my web site www.KirschenbaumEsq.com in the e-mail article page.
A power point presentation was given by UltraGuard and I suggest you visit its web site for lots of information. UltraGuard. Electronic Control Systems [www.ecsultraguard.com].
The following 12 states already have CO Legislation: New York; New Jersey; Rhode Island; Massachusetts; West Virginia; Texas; Pennsylvania; Oregon; North Carolina; Colorado; Alaska and Virginia as well as major metropolitan areas such as: New York City; Chicago; St. Louis; Baltimore; Des Moines; Berkeley and many others pending.
I will be modifying the Fire Inspection Per Call Service contract shortly to include CO inspection. Since the CO devices have a 5-year life span I would like some industry feed back on how you would like to deal with the upgrading of the devices. I think that, unlike other alarm equipment that you install and service on request, the CO devices will have to be handled a little differently. If the device doesn't let you know that it no longer works then periodic inspection and automatic replacement is going to be necessary. If the device can alert the subscriber so that you can be called in for service then the liability issue is resolved. You need to be careful to give the subscriber the literature provided by the CO manufacturer. Most of you probably toss the equipment information. Since the CO devices have relatively short life span you need to let the subscriber know, and I think it's going to be good idea to have that information in the contracts.