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Past Chairman of the Florida Community Association Living Study Council It's as if you had a spy at our meetings and over hear our gripes :). 'Your news and ideas have been a Godsend and so helpful, you can't imagine. What about older buildings built before this requirement was implemented? Holland reports that, so far, they haven't been required to do a retrofit to include sprinklers.

The state will shut you down if you don't meet these restrictions.' It's the ones that can also register carbon monoxide. But it's not just traditional smoke alarms that are required. 'At one point, you could have smoke alarms in the hallway of a unit, but now you also need one in each bedroom. 'For new residential properties, anything over two stories requires a sprinkler system,' reports Holland. 'As a result, Southern Nevada has probably one of the most strict fire codes in the country.

She's referring to the 1980 tragedy that killed 85 people at the hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. 'Many years ago, we had the big MGM Grand Hotel fire,' recalls Barbara Holland, CPM, regional manager for FirstService Residential in Las Vegas. That's a requirement for many buildings in Nevada.

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If your condo isn't in Florida, it's still wise to check with your local and state authorities to know whether you're required to take actions to update your buildings or systems to protect residents from fire and other disasters.ДЇor instance, you may not be required to retrofit to install an entire sprinkler system, but you may be required to add smoke or carbon monoxide detectors. 'If you did opt out, you're done' (except for the engineered life safety system leg of the requirements). The upshot for Florida condos? 'If you didn't opt out, you need to retrofit,' says Krut. The Florida legislature passed that requirement, and if you wanted to opt out, the window closed at the end of December 2016.' 'This was sort of the big, hot issue in Florida condo law last year. 'A lot of my clients held votes to waive the requirement before the end of last year,' reports Krut. Also by that date, they needed to report to the state's Division of Condominiums the results of the membership vote, in addition to recording a certificate in the public records attesting they've held the vote. The problem for slow-moving boards is that they needed to hold that membership meeting and vote by December 31, 2016.

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In lay person's terms, that involves an analysis of a building by a professional engineer with expertise in fire and life safety design and the implementation of upgraded safety and fire protection measures. Even for associations that properly followed the instructions for opting out, the law still requires them to install an engineered life safety system. Most that need this type of system are coming to their 40-year mark and have other expenses they have to address.' 'They couldn't afford to install the sprinkler system.

'Over the last couple of years, I've had a handful of associations vote to opt out, usually because the expense is tremendous,' notes Krut. Condos simply needed approval by a majority of the voting interests by proxy, ballot, or written consent at a duly called membership meeting, according to Krut. The good news for condo boards in Florida is that the state's condo act permitted associations to opt out.

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'If you have exterior access to the units-so catwalk buildings, and there are a lot of older catwalk buildings in Florida-they're excluded.' (Can't picture it? If you're a fan of the gruesome TV series Dexter, just think of that lovable serial killer's apartment building.) 'That's basically pretty large buildings,' states Krut. But the 75-foot requirement corresponds with the maximum reach of most fire trucks, and legislators apparently wanted additional protection for units above that level. Sounds confusing, right? Unfortunately, that's the way the requirement reads. A high rise must do that if it's greater than 75 feet in height from the lowest level of fire department access to the floor of the highest occupiable level. Under the Florida Fire Prevention Code, explains Krut, all high-rise buildings in the state are required by December 31, 2019, to have installed an approved and supervised automatic fire sprinkler system. 'I've heard there was confusion, but I haven't seen it first-hand with my clients,' reports Joshua Krut, a partner at Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Here, we set the record straight and offer simple advice for boards in other states, too. The Florida Fire Sprinkler Association has even claimed misinformation is being spread. Reports indicate that boards in Florida have been confused on whether they must retrofit their buildings to include sprinklers.