South Dakota Updates Plumbing Code to 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code

PIERRE, SD — South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden on March 13 signed into regulation Senate Invoice 25 (SB 25), updating the state’s plumbing code to the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) from the beforehand adopted 2015 version. The adoption was initiated and endorsed by the state’s Plumbing Fee and has the sturdy help of South Dakota’s plumbing trade. 

Senate Commerce and Vitality Committee Chairman David Wheeler, appearing on the request of the South Dakota Plumbing Fee, sponsored SB 25 and guided it by means of the adoption course of. The invoice handed following a radical dialogue, culminating with a mixed bicameral vote of 102 yeas and a couple of nays. 

“This passage and replace is a testomony to the deep roots, allies, and stakeholder partnerships that IAPMO has been capable of forge and maintain in South Dakota,” stated Jed Scheuermann, IAPMO Vice President of Area Companies. “The work of the chair and the committee was important, appearing as a gradual, dependable, and amenable hand main all the way in which to the governor’s desk. This replace helps South Dakotans have entry to a more moderen code that displays enhancements in water conservation, consuming water high quality, and plumbing expertise.”

Important Updates

One of many many important updates from the 2015 UPC to the 2024 UPC is the addition of Appendix M, Peak Water Demand Calculator®. The UPC is the one nationwide mannequin plumbing code with important updates for water pipe sizing in buildings because the growth of Hunter’s Curve greater than 80 years in the past. It’s the results of a multiyear, IAPMO-led effort to develop a brand new statistically based mostly pipe sizing technique stemming from a necessity to handle profound water security and wasted water and vitality issues on account of outsized water provide pipes in properties and buildings.

The UPC requires accredited third-party certification of consuming water remedy gadgets, fixtures, and elements to the related American Nationwide Requirements. The updates throughout the 2024 UPC are aligned with meticulous and rigorously examined suggestions all through the plumbing trade. 

Updates that handle the evolving water panorama within the Mount Rushmore State and past embrace:

• New provisions for personal nicely water tanks
• New Appendix Q addressing plumbing necessities for indoor horticultural services
• New Appendix R offering minimal plumbing system necessities for tiny homes
• New Appendix S with provisions pertaining to onsite stormwater remedy methods

Study extra concerning the UPC at iapmo.org/codes-standards-development/code-development/uniform-plumbing-code and obtain the Water Demand Calculator at iapmo.org/we-stand/water-demand-calculator.