Last night's MBFAA www.mbfaa.com general meeting was packed with attendees
and information.  Experts discussed Carbon Monoxide systems, Nassau
County's requirements and the new New York City requirements.

The NYC law is on my web site www.KirschenbaumEsq.com in the e-mail article
page.

 A power point presentation was given by UltraGuard and I suggest you
visit its web site for lots of information.  UltraGuard. Electronic Control
Systems  [www.ecsultraguard.com].

The following 12 states already have CO Legislation: New York; New Jersey;
Rhode Island; Massachusetts; West Virginia; Texas; Pennsylvania; Oregon;
North Carolina; Colorado; Alaska and Virginia as well as major metropolitan
areas such as: New York City; Chicago; St. Louis; Baltimore; Des Moines;
Berkeley and many others pending.

I will be modifying the Fire Inspection Per Call Service contract shortly
to include CO inspection.  Since the CO devices have a 5-year life span I
would like some industry feed back on how you would like to deal with the
upgrading of the devices.  I think that, unlike other alarm equipment that
you install and service on request, the CO devices will have to be handled
a little differently.  If the device doesn't let you know that it no longer
works then periodic inspection and automatic replacement is going to be
necessary.  If the device can alert the subscriber so that you can be
called in for service then the liability issue is resolved.  You need to be
careful to give the subscriber the literature provided by the CO
manufacturer.  Most of you probably toss the equipment information.  Since
the CO devices have relatively short life span you need to let the
subscriber know, and I think it's going to be good idea to have that
information in the contracts.