2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 49 - Cigarette Fire Safety Standards
§ 34-49-2 Sale or offer for sale of cigarettes prohibited without required testing, compliance with performance standard, certification, and marking.

34-49-2. (Section effective January 1, 2011) Sale or offer for sale of cigarettes prohibited without required testing, compliance with performance standard, certification, and marking. Except as provided in § 34-49-7, no cigarettes may be sold or offered for sale in this state or offered for sale or sold to persons located in this state unless the cigarettes have been tested in accordance with the test method and meet the performance standard specified in this section, a written certification has been filed by the manufacturer with the state fire marshal in accordance with § 34-49-8, and the cigarettes have been marked in accordance with § 34-49-9.

Testing of cigarettes shall be conducted in accordance with the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard E2187-04, Standard Test Method for Measuring the Ignition Strength of Cigarettes as of January 1, 2009, and shall be conducted on ten layers of filter paper.

No more than twenty-five percent of the cigarettes tested in a test trial in accordance with this section may exhibit full-length burns. Forty replicate tests shall comprise a complete test trial for each cigarette tested. The performance standard required by this section only applies to a complete test trial. Written certifications shall be based upon testing conducted by a laboratory that has been accredited pursuant to standard ISO/IEC 17025 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), or other comparable accreditation standard required by the state fire marshal.

Any laboratory conducting testing in accordance with this section shall implement a quality control and quality assurance program that includes a procedure that will determine the repeatability of the testing results. No repeatability value may be greater than nineteen hundredths.

This section does not require additional testing if cigarettes are tested consistent with this chapter for any other purpose. Any testing performed or sponsored by the state fire marshal to determine a cigarette's compliance with the performance standard required shall be conducted in accordance with this section.

Source: SL 2009, ch 172, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.