South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 44 - Department of Health
Article 44:75 - Hospital, specialized Hospital critical access Hospital, and rural emergency Hospital facilities
Chapter 44:75:13 - Construction Standards
Section 44:75:13:22 - Steam and hot water systems

Each facility shall have the capacity to supply the normal requirements of all the facility's systems and equipment. Supply and return mains and risers of space heating and process steam systems shall be valved to isolate the various sections of each system. Each piece of equipment shall be valved at the supply and return end. Boilers, smoke breeching, steam supply piping, high pressure steam return piping, and hot water space heating supply and return piping shall be insulated with insulation having a flame spread of twenty-five or less and a smoke emission rating of fifty or less using NFPA 255, 2006 edition, Standard Method of Test for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials or equivalent test procedures.

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13(1)(3).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(1)(3).

NFPA 255, NFPA 255, 2006 edition, Standard Method of Test for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials. Copies may be obtained at https://www.nfpa.org/Codes-and-Standards/All-Codes-and-Standards/List-of-Codes-and-Standards. Cost: $60.50.