# S.C. Code Regs. 103-461 - Acceptable Standards **Citation:** S.C. Code Regs. 103-461 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Public Service Commission of South Carolina **Effective:** 2008-05-23 **Published:** 2008-05-23 Unless otherwise specified by the commission, after hearing if requested, the gas system shall use the applicable provisions in the publications listed below as operational references, where applicable, and as standards of accepted good engineering practices. a. The edition of the American Standard Code for ''Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems'', ANSI B31.8. as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety ## Document text Unless otherwise specified by the commission, after hearing if requested, the gas system shall use the applicable provisions in the publications listed below as operational references, where applicable, and as standards of accepted good engineering practices. a. The edition of the American Standard Code for ''Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems'', ANSI B31.8. as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations. b. The latest edition of the American Standards Association Pamphlet, ASA Z21.30, ''Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping in Buildings'', or the latest edition of the National Board of Fire Underwriters publication NFPA No. 54, ''Piping, Appliances and Fittings for City Gas''. c. The edition of the NFPA No. 59, ''The Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases at Utility Gas Plants'' as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations. d. ''Standard Methods of Gas Testing'', Circular No. 48, National Bureau of Standards, 1961. (The applicable portions of this Circular have been substantially reproduced in the American Meter Company Handbook E-4, covering the testing of positive displacement meters). e. ''Testing Large Capacity Rotary Gas Meters'', Research Paper No. 1741, National Bureau of Standards Journal of Research, September, 1946. f. ''Orifice Metering of Natural Gas'', Report No. 3 of the AGA Gas Measurement Committee. g. ''Standard Method of Test for Calorific Value of Gaseous Fuels by Water-Flow Calorimeter'', American Society for Testing Materials, Standard D 900-55. h. The edition of NFPA No. 59A, ''Storage and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas'' as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations. HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 14, Issue No. 3, eff March 23, 1990; State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `sc-leg-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `14eae489b4f58790cf6917da8291b5b74a56cd006daa9db18de24b1348774339` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:28:25.511Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T10:06:26.684Z - Document slug: `sc-scr-103-461` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-SC", "documentClass": "regulation", "code": "South Carolina Code of Regulations", "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 intrastate-gas program", "hazardousLiquidSafetyJurisdiction": false, "interstateGasEnforcementJurisdiction": false, "dynamicFederalIncorporation": false, "sourceNote": "HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 14, Issue No. 3, eff March 23, 1990; State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008.", "references": [], "caveats": { "exactScope": "This bounded corpus contains 27 current, direct South Carolina gas-pipeline safety provisions: 14 provisions from Chapter 103, Article 4, including only pipeline-safety portions 103-412(2.6)-(2.7), and 13 provisions from the South Carolina Gas Safety Act of 1970, S.C. Code Sections 58-5-920 through 58-5-1070. The complete current Chapter 103 gas-systems article and complete current Gas Safety Act article are inventoried as the completeness boundary.", "excludedScope": "Customer deposits, billing, rates, certificates, economic service, routine metering, gas quality, curtailment, ordinary utility records, and related engineering provisions are adjacent or excluded and are not searchable. Chapter 58-36 excavation and one-call law, tariffs, dockets, orders, inspection forms, enforcement files, federal text, private standards, and non-gas programs require separate corpora. Interstate gas and all hazardous-liquid pipelines are excluded from the proven state-certification scope.", "applicability": "Applicability depends on the statutory definition of gas utility and pipeline facility, public-utility and gas-system status, commodity, facility type, intrastate or interstate status, federal jurisdiction, statutory exclusions for liquefied petroleum gas and anhydrous ammonia, waivers, and the text in force on the relevant date. PHMSA identifies South Carolina as certified for intrastate gas only and retains interstate gas and both intrastate and interstate hazardous-liquid enforcement. This connector does not infer hazardous-liquid certification.", "incorporation": "Regulation 103-490 and Sections 58-5-920, 58-5-970, and 58-5-1050 use rolling language for federal gas-safety standards as amended from time to time. Regulation 103-461 also points to editions of private standards referenced by federal rules. This connector links but does not reproduce incorporated federal or private standards and does not decide edition, preemption, or incorporation-validity questions.", "publication": "The South Carolina Legislature's current Code of Regulations index, official Chapter 103 PDF, and current Code of Laws HTML are the controlling publication set used here. Rule histories and statutory history notes support only the explicit events emitted; retrieval time is a publication observation, not a legal event or historical version.", "rights": "Official South Carolina and federal-government artifacts are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, agency marks, forms, photographs, linked material, or incorporated private standards; private standards are not reproduced." }, "region": "SC" } ```