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You will also bc reyuired to install smokc alarnis as per Intemational Residential Codc <br />QRC), Section R313 as follows; <br />R313.1 Smoke detection and notification. <br />All smokc alamis shal� bc listed in accordance with UL 217 and installed in accordance <br />with the provisions of this code and thc houschold 6rc waming equipment provisions of <br />NFPA 72. <br />Houschold fire alami systcros installed in accordance �vith NFPA 72 that include smoke <br />alanns, or a corobination of smokc dctector and audible notification devicc installed as <br />reyuired by this section for smoke alarnis, shall be perniitted. The household fire alarm <br />system shall provide thc samc Ievel of smokc dctection and alarni as required by this <br />section for smokc alanns in thc c��cnt thc firc alarm pancl is removcd or thc systcm is not <br />connected to a central station. <br />R313.2 Location. <br />Smokc alamis shall bc installcd in thc following locations• <br />L In cach slceping room. <br />2. Outside cach scparutc slccping arca in the immediatc vicinity of thc bedrooms. <br />3. On cach addilional story of thc dwclling, induding basemcnls but not including <br />cra�vl spaccs and uninhabitablc attics. In dwcllings or dwclling units with split levcls and <br />withou? an inlcrvcning door betwecn the adjacent levcls, a smokc alami installed on the <br />upper levcl shall suflice for tlie adjacent lo�vcr levcl pro�•ided that thc lmver Ievel is Icss <br />than onc fidl story bclow thc upper lcvcl. <br />When morc than onc smokc alann is rcquircd to bc installcd within an individual <br />dwclling wiit thc .�lami de��ices shall be intcrconnectcd in such a manncr that the <br />actuation of onc alann will activatc all of thc alarnis in thc individual unit. <br />R313.2.1 Alterations, repairs and additions. <br />Whcn allcrations, rcpairs or additions rcquiring a perniit occur, or when onc or more <br />slecping rooms arc addcd or crcatcd in czisting d�vcllings, thc individual dwclling unit <br />shall bc cquipped with smokc alarms located as required for new dwcllings; the smoke <br />alanns shall bc intcrconncetcd and hard o�ired. <br />e.��p���„5: <br />I. lntcr conncction und hard-wiring of smokc alanns in existing arcas shall not bc <br />rcquircd wlierc the alterations or repairs do not result in the removal of interior wall or <br />cciling f nishcs cxposing thc stnictivc, unlcss thcrc is an attic, cra�vl spacc or basentcnt <br />a��ailaUlc �vhich could provide access for hard wiring and intcrconnection without Ihc <br />rcmo��al of intcrior finishcs. <br />2. Work im�olving thc exlcrior surt:�ccs of dwcllings, such as the rcplacement of <br />rooling or siding, or thc addition or replaccment of windo�vs or doors, or the addition of a <br />porch or dcck. ;vc cxcmpt from thc rcquirrments of this scction. <br />R313.3 Po�ccr sntu�cc. <br />� <br />