DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – According to the Ohio Department of Health, in the past 3 years at least 36 people in Ohio have died from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Two years ago, the state decided to do something about that.
For years, Ohio had no rules in place requiring homes to have a detector for the odorless poison, carbon monoxide. They still don’t require any businesses to.
But in 2013, they made a change.
Kettering’s Chief Building Official Terry Welker tells us the industry knew it was overdue.
“It was an important change and it’s not very expensive frankly. It’s something that’s an easy thing to do,” said Welker
The Residential Building Code of Ohio now requires new home owners and anyone remodeling a home to install CO detectors if they’re at risk of exposure.
“The times when this applies is if your house has a garage attached to it or any fuel fired appliance so if you have a gas furnace which is common in this region or a garage attached.”
City and County workers will inspect those projects to make sure the detector is inside a home but Welker says they don’t enforce the law.
“We are not the building police. We don’t fine people, but they are doing it at their own risk. Sometimes these things come back because future, when you go to sell your home and there’s no public record of the work being inspected. It can also cause problems for people’s insurance.”
Welker said it comes down to personal responsibility. He also reminds everyone to conduct yearly maintenance on your appliances.
“Your duty as a property owner is to protect everybody that is living in that home,” he said.
2 NEWS Investigates wanted to know what responsibility the Troy property owners have.
We found If your home is not new and you haven’t had a recent construction project in it, you are not required to have a CO detector.
We called the county and found it had no record of any construction permits at the Elm street address in the past few years, so they did not have to have a CO detector in place.
But there are rules that require landlords to fix any maintenance issues.
Troy Police leaders tell me they are meeting with the city prosecutor soon to determine if that may have been a factor.
The property owner’s attorney tells me they were not aware of any furnace issues and says the couple is not negligent in any way.
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — An initiative to fill downtown storefronts called Activated Spaces is launching its next round of Pop-Up Projects.
The project matches business owners and entrepreneurs with downtown property owners who have first-floor storefront space available for occupancy. Lease lengths will range from three to six months. The spaces will have varying lease rates, but will be leased below market value.
Interested retailers or office space seekers should fill out an application, which can be downloaded at http://www.activatedspaces.org and email it to Jen Cadieux at cadieux@downtowndayton.org The application deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, March 13. Tenants will be selected the week of March 30, and retailers must be ready to open no later than the end of May.
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