Natural Gas Detector Requirements - NYC ONLY

Building owners are required to install natural gas detectors (alarms) in:

• Apartment buildings
• Hotels, motels, and lodging or rooming houses
• Single room occupancy buildings
• Private dwellings – one and two-family homes

For multiple dwellings and one- and two-family homes, you must install detectors within 15 feet of the primary entrance to each sleeping room if there is gas piping in the building.

Natural gas detectors are required to be replaced as their useful life expires, according to the manufacturer's instructions and based on the original date of installation. The replacement device must be a model that has an end-of-life alarm.

While owners are required to install and replace natural gas detectors, tenants are responsible for maintaining them and changing the batteries. Tenants must pay the owner $25 when the owner installs a new natural gas detector, replaces a natural gas  detector that has reached the end of its useful life, or replaces one that the tenant lost or damaged. Tenants have up to 1 year to make the payment.

Learn more about HPD's natural gas detector requirements.