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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 25 - BUILDING CODES AND FIRE PREVENTION
ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS- Section 5-25-10 - Application of chapter.
- Section 5-25-20 - Fire departments in cities and towns of one hundred inhabitants; fire limits and construction therein.
- Section 5-25-40 - Fire alarm boxes in hospitals and public schools.
- Section 5-25-50 - Amount of explosives, inflammable liquids and matches that may be kept.
- Section 5-25-110 - Chief of fire department.
- Section 5-25-120 - Inspectors of buildings.
- Section 5-25-130 - Deputy building inspector.
- Section 5-25-140 - Electrical inspector.
- Section 5-25-150 - Review of actions or orders of inspector by city council.
- Section 5-25-160 - Building inspectors' responsibility to hold inquiries into origins of fires; ex officio inspectors.
- Section 5-25-170 - Report to State Fire Marshal.
- Section 5-25-180 - Fee for inquiry; from whom derived.
- Section 5-25-190 - Procedure and penalty in cases of criminal carelessness.
- Section 5-25-200 - Procedure when municipality fails to appoint inspector.
- Section 5-25-210 - Penalties; enforcement.
- Section 5-25-310 - Building permit.
- Section 5-25-320 - Inspections and certificate of compliance.
- Section 5-25-330 - Permit for moving building.
- Section 5-25-340 - Right to enter premises.
- Section 5-25-350 - Reports of noncompliance.
- Section 5-25-360 - Quarterly inspections of premises within fire limits; reports.
- Section 5-25-370 - Annual inspections required.
- Section 5-25-380 - Procedure in case of defective or illegal construction.
- Section 5-25-390 - Notice to repair unsafe buildings.
- Section 5-25-400 - Approval required of proposed alterations.
- Section 5-25-410 - Effect of failure of owner to correct defects in new building.
- Section 5-25-420 - Penalty if owner of unsafe and dangerous building fails to remedy defects.
- Section 5-25-430 - Removal of notice is a misdemeanor.
- Section 5-25-440 - Records kept by inspector.
- Section 5-25-450 - Reports of inspections.
- Section 5-25-460 - Misconduct of inspector.
- Section 5-25-470 - Fees for inspections; compensation of inspectors.
- Section 5-25-480 - Inspection fees in cities of 70,000 or more.
- Section 5-25-610 - Height of buildings; floor area between fire walls.
- Section 5-25-620 - Height of frame buildings.
- Section 5-25-630 - Openings in walls; standard fire doors; windows.
- Section 5-25-640 - Business buildings required to have standpipes; free connections and service with city water mains.
- Section 5-25-650 - Structures around chimneys, flues and fireplaces.
- Section 5-25-660 - Construction of fireplaces and chimneys.
- Section 5-25-670 - Additional regulations as to chimneys.
- Section 5-25-680 - Construction of flues.
- Section 5-25-690 - Hanging flues.
- Section 5-25-700 - Stovepipe construction.
- Section 5-25-710 - Correction of dangerous chimneys, flues or heating apparatus.
- Section 5-25-720 - Foundry chimneys.
- Section 5-25-730 - Steam pipes.
- Section 5-25-740 - Heater pipes.
- Section 5-25-750 - Registers, register boxes and cold-air ducts for hot-air furnaces.
- Section 5-25-760 - Ranges and stoves.
- Section 5-25-770 - Combustible floors under coal ranges.
- Section 5-25-780 - Protection of woodwork near boilers, furnaces and similar appliances.
- Section 5-25-790 - Gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal stoves or heating devices.
- Section 5-25-800 - Gas connections.
- Section 5-25-810 - Electric wiring.
- Section 5-25-820 - Inspections of new electrical wiring; alterations.
- Section 5-25-830 - Stair and elevator shafts; partitions.
- Section 5-25-840 - Door openings in stair and elevator enclosures.
- Section 5-25-850 - Skylights covering stairway, elevator or dumbwaiter shaft.
- Section 5-25-860 - Interior light or vent shafts; dumbwaiter shafts.
- Section 5-25-870 - Restrictions as to openings in a roof for admission of light or air.
- Section 5-25-880 - Required means of egress.
- Section 5-25-890 - Stairways; exit doors.
- Section 5-25-900 - Firestopping construction on floor levels.
- Section 5-25-910 - Construction of areaways.
- Section 5-25-920 - Rows of frame houses.
- Section 5-25-930 - Buildings outside of fire limits of incombustible material.
- Section 5-25-940 - Construction not provided for in this chapter.
- Section 5-25-1110 - Municipalities shall pass fire limit ordinances.
- Section 5-25-1120 - Manner in which buildings in fire limits shall be constructed.
- Section 5-25-1130 - No frame structures shall be built or moved within fire limits; exceptions.
- Section 5-25-1140 - Construction of certain buildings in fire limits.
- Section 5-25-1150 - Repairs to roofs within fire limits.
- Section 5-25-1160 - Removal of damaged frame buildings.
- Section 5-25-1310 - Smoke detectors required for one-family and two-family dwellings, including manufactured housing.
- Section 5-25-1320 - Battery-operated detectors permitted in certain existing dwellings.
- Section 5-25-1330 - Responsibility of owner of dwelling to supply and install smoke detectors in rental dwellings and housing; instructions for operation of detectors; notice of deficiencies in detectors; repair or replacement of detector.
- Section 5-25-1340 - Conveyance or transfer of real estate prohibited unless smoke detectors have been installed and are functioning.
- Section 5-25-1360 - Enforcement of article by State Fire Marshal or local fire official.
- Section 5-25-1370 - Penalties for violations of article.
- Section 5-25-1380 - Failure to comply with article does not create cause of action or basis for insurance company to deny coverage.
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