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 room operating lights;
3. (3) Lighting for laboratory, recovery room, staff stations, and medication preparation areas;
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) Staff 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) Pump for central suction system;
13. (13) Sewage or sump lift pump, if installed;
14. (14) Receptacles for blood bank refrigerator;
15. (15) At least two duplex receptacles for the laboratory;
16. (16) Receptacles in operating and recovery rooms except those for X ray;
17. (17) Duplex receptacles in patient corridors; and
18. (18) 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: 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).