Okla. Stat. tit. 74, §§ 324.11a–324.11c § 324.11a

A. Any person, partnership, corporation,
organization, the state, or city, town, county, or other subdivision of this
state, owning a building or structure used as a hospital, church, theater,
hotel, motel, apartment house, rooming house, dormitory, rest home, nursing
home, day nursery, convalescent home, auditorium, or child care institution,
existing or constructed in the State of Oklahoma, shall install in such building
or structure a smoke detector or detectors in accordance with the nationally
recognized codes, standards, or practices adopted by the State Fire Marshal
Commission to safeguard life and property from the hazards of smoke and
fire.
B. For the purpose of this section, the term smoke
detector means a device which is:
1. Designed to detect visible or invisible products
of combustion;
2. Designed with an alarm audible to the rooms it
serves;
3. Powered by either battery, alternating current, or
other power source; and
4. Tested and listed for use as a smoke detector by a
recognized testing laboratory.
C. Any person, partnership, corporation, state,
municipality, county, or other subdivision of this state who is a lessor of a
residential rental property shall explain to the lessee or tenant the method of
testing the smoke detector to ensure that it is in working order. The
responsibility for checking a smoke detector to find out whether such detector
is in working order is with the tenant or lessee leasing or renting a one- or
two-family dwelling, including an apartment in each apartment house, and not
with the person, partnership, corporation, state, municipality, county, or other
subdivision of this state who is a lessor of the residential rental property to
the lessee or tenant.
D. Beginning November 1, 1997, all new construction
or remodeling of residential dwellings which require a building permit shall
include the installment of smoke detectors or the electrical wiring necessary
for the installment of electrical smoke detectors.
E. Any person who violates any provision of
subsection A of this section or any person who tampers with, removes, destroys,
disconnects or removes power from any installed smoke detector, except in the
course of inspection, maintenance or replacement of the detector, upon
conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not less than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
F. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
allow any political subdivision in this state to enact laws imposing upon owners
of any dwelling described in subsection A of this section a greater duty with
regard to the installation, testing, repair and replacement of smoke detectors
than is required by this section.
G. The State Fire Marshal Commission shall prescribe,
adopt, and promulgate the rules necessary to effectuate the provisions of this
section which shall include a practical time table for compliance with the
provisions of this act.
H. Municipalities may enact ordinances in order to
enforce the rules of the State Fire Marshal Commission as provided by this
section.