By Brian Downey
The Dispatch
OCEAN CITY, Md. — Although a bill looking to mandate the use of carbon monoxide detectors in certain single-family and multi-family homes across the state died last week after it moved to the Senate and received an unfavorable report by the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, a similar piece of legislation for the town of Ocean City continues to move forward with it being approved on its first formal reading at the Mayor and City Council’s regular meeting this week.
It was back on March 13 during a Mayor and City Council work session that Councilman Jim Hall made a motion to look into mandating the detectors in all single-family homes, thus ensuring all dwellings in Ocean City that use fossil fuels for heat, ventilation or a variety of other uses, would be protected.
Two weeks later, at another work session, the council unanimously approved a motion to go ahead and draft an ordinance that would do such a thing, something neither pieces of previous legislation had touched on. At this week’s meeting the ordinance had no trouble getting approved once again on its first formal reading, passing with a unanimous vote once again.
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