Sprinkler ordinance in effect
The DeKalb County, GA, Board of Commissioners has passed a sprinkler system ordinance that requires sprinklers to be installed in all hotels, motels, apartment buildings, rooming houses, and dormitories that are constructed there after May 1,1986.
The only structures that will be exempt from the new law are oneand two-family dwellings and those designed to accommodate less than 15 persons, said DeKalb County Fire Chief Thomas E. Brown, who worked with the county commissioners and local developers to write the ordinance.
Both Chief Brown and the Board of Commissioners are hopeful that the new sprinkler system regulation will reduce fire deaths and lower the cost of fire protection in the county.
DeKalb County already has a law requiring smoke detectors in all public accommodations and in all single-family dwellings.
