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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 25 - BUILDING CODES AND FIRE PREVENTION
Section 5-25-730 - Steam pipes.
SC Code § 5-25-730 (2012) What's This?
No steam pipes shall be placed within two inches of any timber or woodwork unless the timber or woodwork is protected by a metal shield and then the distance shall not be less than one inch. All steam pipes passing through floors and ceilings or laths and plastered partitions shall be protected by a metal tube one inch larger in diameter than the pipe, and the space shall be filled in with mineral wool, asbestos or other incombustible material.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-1240; 1952 Code Section 47-1240; 1942 Code Section 7509; 1932 Code Section 7509; Civ. C. '22 Section 4624; 1917 (30) 77.
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