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{ Annual Town Meeting - May 4, 1981 Page 9 ARTIChE 35 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By- haws .by adding the following to Chapter 4, Article 4.6, Section 4.6.6: ? Any new structure containing more than one dwelling unit to be built in the Town of Mashpee, including but not limited to structures known as condominiums, shall have installed an alarm system so prescribed by the Fire Chief as follows: Smoke detectors shall be installed on each level including the basement of each unit within the structure as prescribed by the Massachusetts State Building Code. These smoke detectors shall be local to the unit and wired on an essential circuit within the unit, such as the kitchen circuit. There shall be a rate of rise fixed tem ' { installed on each level including the basementof each detector f each unit within the structure and a prescribed number of heat detectors lig, in each attic space over each unit depending on the size of the attic. There shall be a fixed temperature heat detector in the room or space which houses the heatingplant fort, '. structure. p each unit or These heat detectors shall be part of a complete, closed alarm.. system, local to the entire building or structure, therefore sounding around and throughout the entire building or structure. ' This system will be a low voltage system with a sixty- hour back- !' t % up. The AC power connection shall connect ahead of the main switch with a locking device and key. The wiring for energy fire alarm wire rated at 906 centigrade. If the layout of a particular structure calls for common hallways dq'` thereshall be smokedetectors ineach hallway which are wired to the 1� " low voltage alarm system, the number and location to be determined by the Fire Chief.These hallway smoke detectors shall be equipped with at least.- a nin69) second delay capacitor and screen. Also if common hallways- exist there shall be a pull station at either end of the hallway located as recommended by the Massachusetts State Building Code and a zone panel box in each common hallway. The number of zones and location of box shall be negotiable. Within this low voltage alarm system in each building or structure � there shall be installed exterior audible bells or horn and an exterior rotating beacon light which shall be located as prescribed by the Fire Chief and which will be activated by the activation of any warning device within this closed system. These bells or horns shall also be installed in the common hallwayst hallways, where they exist in any given building or structure. These bells or horns must be loud ' "i enough to be heard in any room in any unit within any given build- ing structure.'.°" i i _ t1 y