Bill 20 explained in plain English
Hawkins Gignac Act (Carbon Monoxide Detectors), 2012
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Hawkins Gignac Act (Carbon Monoxide Detectors), 2012 requires the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in specific residential buildings.
This bill amends the Building Code Act, 1992 to require owners of certain residential buildings to install and maintain carbon monoxide detectors. These detectors must meet specific installation requirements and conform to prescribed standards. It is prohibited to intentionally disable these detectors. The bill also sets out specific locations for the detectors within residential units based on the number of rooms and proximity to fuel-burning appliances or garages. For existing buildings, these requirements will apply 12 months after the bill receives Royal Assent.
- Amends the Building Code Act, 1992.
- Requires owners of residential buildings with a fuel-burning device or storage garage to install and maintain carbon monoxide detectors.
- Specifies where carbon monoxide detectors must be located within residential units.
- Sets requirements for how carbon monoxide detectors must be installed, including being permanently connected to an electrical circuit and potentially wired to activate all detectors in a suite.
- Requires carbon monoxide detectors to conform to prescribed standards.
- Prohibits the intentional disabling of carbon monoxide detectors.
- States that this new requirement for existing buildings comes into effect 12 months after the bill receives Royal Assent.
- Owners of residential buildings that contain one or more rooms for residential occupancy and a fuel-burning appliance or storage garage.
- Occupants of rental units in affected buildings.
- Manufacturers and installers of carbon monoxide detectors (to ensure conformance with standards).
- Owners have the obligation to install and maintain carbon monoxide detectors.
- Landlords have the obligation to provide maintenance instructions for detectors to tenants.
- No person has the right to intentionally disable a carbon monoxide detector.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The new requirements for existing buildings apply 12 months after the Act receives Royal Assent.
- The specific 'standards prescribed' for carbon monoxide detectors are not detailed in this text and would be found in regulations made under the Act.
- The bill text does not specify penalties for non-compliance with the new requirements.
Adds new requirements for the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings.
Source: Section 1
Defines 'residential occupancy' and 'suite' for the purposes of the new carbon monoxide detector requirements.
Source: Section 15.8.1 (1)
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