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Ordinance No. 2003-11 with respect to compliance with the requirements of this Code. (2) For the purposes of installation and maintenance, the application of the following standards of the National Fire Protection Association shall apply: No. 71, 72A, 72B, 72C, 72D and 74. (Ord. 96-105. Passed 7-2-96)." 6e amended, and, as amended, s6all read in its entirety as follows: "(a) Sin e-Family and Two Family Residences. (1) The installation of a minimum of one smoke detector per dwelling unit is hereby required for a11 new single and two family residential dwellings constructed subsequent to the effective date of this section (Ordinance 80-9, passed March 4, 1980). As an alternative to a smoke detector, an approved fire detection system may be installed. Each such fire detection system must be individually approved and a permit issued therefor by the Building Department. (2) Although not required, it is recommended that all existing single and two-family dwelling structures sha11 have installed therein a minimum of one smoke detector per dwelling unit or an acceptable altemative approved as provided in paragraph (1). (3) The smoke detector sha11 be mounted on the ceiling, or wa11 not more than twelve inches from the ceiling, at a poirrt centrally located in a corridor or area giving access to rooms used for sleeping purposes. In an efficiency dwelling unit the detector sha11 be centrally located on the ceiling of the main room. Where sleeping rooms are on an upper level, the detector sha11 be placed at the center of the ceiling directly above the stairway. Care should be exercised to ensure that the installation will not interFere with the operating characteristics of the detector. When activated the detector shall provide an audible alarm in the dwelling unit. Smoke detectors with D.C. power supply only are permitted, as are detectors with A.C. power supply backed up by a secondary supply which is D.C. Where A.C.-D.C. combination units are used, it is required tha.t all A.C. lines be wired directly to the building's power supply. All D.C. powered detectors sha11 have built-in protection to warn of battery failure. (b) Residential Multiple Dwellinsts. All buildings containing more than two residential dwelling units, as defined in the Zoning Ordinance of the City in Chapter 1125 and exceeding two stories and/or a height of twenty-five feet constructed after the effective date of this section (Ordinance 75-111, passed October 1, 1974.) shall have contained within each dwelling unit an approved early warning fire detection system. Such system shall consist of an Underwriters Laboratories Factory Mutual or Underwriters Laboratories of Canada approved detector installed and maintained adjacent to the outside of sleeping quarters within the multiple dwelling units. Alarm signaling devices shall be clearly audible in all bedrooms within the apartment or dwelling unit when all irnervening doors are closed. In the application of the story limitation the following provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the CiTy sha11 apply: Chapter 1125, Section 1125.67 Chapter 1125, Section 1125.68 Chapter 1155, Section 1155.03(A) (c) Office Buildings. All office buildings in excess of fifty feet in height constructed after the 3