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The University Townhouses Cooperative Carbon Monoxide Detector Policy
Updated 12/1/00

University Townhouses Cooperative has installed a carbon monoxide detector in your unit for the purpose of detecting carbon monoxide fumes. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. Carbon monoxide fumes are a byproduct of incomplete combustion. These fumes can come from any source that burns a fuel, such as natural gas. If any of your appliances burn natural gas, there is the potential for these fumes to leak into your living area. The fumes can potentially cause severe headaches, nausea, and/or death. Because of the severity and danger of these carbon monoxide fumes, it is necessary for University Townhouses Cooperative to institute a rigid safety policy for all members, residents, children, and pets. The Carbon Monoxide Alarm User's Guide is placed in each townhouse at the time the Detector is installed. The Guides have been duplicated and are available at the Management office should your User's Guide be lost, misplaced, damaged, or destroyed.

The University Townhouses Cooperative Carbon Monoxide Detector Policy is as follows:


       A.  University Townhouses Cooperative has purchased and installed a carbon monoxide

           detector in each townhouse. It must remain in the unit as installed, and plugged

           into the outlet provided at the top of the stairs.

       B.  Additional carbon monoxide detectors may be installed at the member's cost.

       C.  When entering the unit, University Townhouses Cooperative employees, contractors,

           or agents of University Townhouses Cooperative have the right to inspect and 

           verify operation and placement of the carbon monoxide detector.     

       D.  Members must test the carbon monoxide detector on a monthly basis to ensure that

           it is working properly. If not working properly, members will place a work order

           with the office to repair or replace the carbon monoxide detector.

       E.  If missing or damaged, inoperable, and/or the carbon monoxide detector has 

           been replaced with a different detector, then the member will be charged the

           complete replacement cost for a new carbon monoxide detector and possibly an 

           additional charge prescribed in section F.

       F.  The member will also be assessed a $50.00 fee, in addition to any

           replacement costs for the following violations: 



          1.  The carbon monoxide detector plugged into the designated outlet was not

              purchased by University Townhouses Cooperative.

          2.  The carbon monoxide detector is not plugged into the designated outlet at all

              times.

          3.  The carbon monoxide detector is not operational in the unit.

          4.  The member or resident refuses to allow inspection of the carbon monoxide

              detector.

          5.  The carbon monoxide detector provided by University Townhouses Cooperative 

              is replaced with another unit by the member/resident.

          6.  There is no carbon monoxide detector in the unit.

          7.  The carbon monoxide detector is broken, cracked or damaged.

          8.  The carbon monoxide detector does not meet all of the above conditions during

              final move-out inspection.
For instructions on the care and operation of your dectector, please refer to the Carbon Monoxide Alarm User's Guide which was left in your unit at the time your Detector was installed.
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