Emergency electrical service shall be furnished to circuits as follows:

1. (1) Lighting of exit ways and all necessary ways of approach to them, including exit signs and exit direction signs, exterior of exits, exit doorways, stairways, and corridors;
2. (2) Surgical, obstetrical, and emergency room operating lights;
3. (3) Lighting for nursery, laboratory, recovery room, intensive care areas, nursing stations, medication preparation areas, and labor rooms;
4. (4) Lighting for the generator set location, the switch gear location, and the boiler room;
5. (5) Equipment essential to life safety and for protection of important equipment or vital materials;
6. (6) Nurses calling system;
7. (7) Alarm system, including fire alarms actuated at manual stations;
8. (8) Water flow alarm devices of sprinkler system if electrically operated;
9. (9) Fire detecting and smoke detecting systems;
10. (10) Paging or speaker systems if intended for issuing instructions during emergency conditions;
11. (11) Alarms required for nonflammable medical gas systems, if installed;
12. (12) Receptacles for incubators for infants;
13. (13) Pump for central suction system;
14. (14) Sewage or sump lift pump, if installed;
15. (15) Receptacles for blood bank refrigerator;
16. (16) At least two duplex receptacles for the laboratory;
17. (17) Receptacles in operating, recovery, intensive care, and delivery rooms except those for X ray;
18. (18) At least one duplex receptacle in each nursery;
19. (19) Duplex receptacles in patient corridors; and
20. (20) Equipment, such as burners and pumps, necessary for operation of one or more boilers required for heating and sterilization and their necessary auxiliaries and controls.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 6 SDR 93, effective July 1, 1980; 14 SDR 81, effective December 10, 1987; 22 SDR 70, effective November 19, 1995; transferred from § 44:04:14:25, 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015.

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13(1) , (3), and (14).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(1) , (3), and (14).