{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-82-300","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 40-82-300","heading":"Safety cut-off valves on certain heating appliances.","body":"(A) A heating appliance installed for use in a hotel, motel, tourist home, school, church, theater, auditorium, institutional building, hospital, nursing home, convalescent home, or other place of public assembly or rest must be equipped with a pilot having a one hundred percent safety cut-off valve of an automatic operating type. The pilot safety valve must have positive control of the flow of gas to the appliance burners in public places for sleeping purposes.\n(B) A vented space heater equipped with a one hundred percent safety cut-off valve or an unvented space heater factory equipped with an oxygen depletion sensor pilot may be installed in sleeping quarters or bathrooms of residences and in areas of a manufactured home other than sleeping quarters or bathrooms:\n(1) a vented space heater is vented to the outside in accordance with manufacturer's instructions;\n(2) the aggregate input BTU rating of the appliance does not exceed twenty BTU's per hour per cubic foot of space in the room where the heater is placed;\n(3) the required clearances are maintained; and\n(4) the heater is securely anchored to the wall or floor.","path":["Title 40 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","CHAPTER 82 Liquid Petroleum Gas"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t40c082.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:24:54Z","sha256":"2b4a732f0e37dad42c13365f2b5efa3ed91c04e079212d37bcd2a9d96257ba72","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-82-290","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-82-310"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}