Section 27-980. Power sources of smoke detecting devices  


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  • Dwelling units
      shall be equipped with smoke detecting devices receiving  their  primary
      power  from  the  building  wiring and there shall be no switches in the
      circuit  other  than  the  over-current  device  protecting  the  branch
      circuit;  provided,  however,  that dwelling units in existing buildings
      may,  in  the  alternative,  be  equipped  with  battery-operated  smoke
      detecting devices except where such buildings are substantially improved
      or altered on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-two.