# S.C. Code Regs. 103-483 - Special Tests

**Citation:** S.C. Code Regs. 103-483  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Public Service Commission of South Carolina  
**Effective:** 2008-05-23  
**Published:** 2008-05-23

Before permitting the initial use of gas at any location, a certificate of inspections and tests of the customer-owned piping shall be furnished the gas system by the customer or by the local inspecting authority. All such inspections and tests shall be made in accordance with applicable local codes. In the absence of a local code such inspections and tests shall be in accordance with minimum standards set forth in t

## Document text

Before permitting the initial use of gas at any location, a certificate of inspections and tests of the customer-owned piping shall be furnished the gas system by the customer or by the local inspecting authority. All such inspections and tests shall be made in accordance with applicable local codes. In the absence of a local code such inspections and tests shall be in accordance with minimum standards set forth in the latest edition of Southern Standard Gas Code, and the customer or his contractor shall furnish the gas system a certificate of such inspections and tests. The gas system shall advise the customer of this requirement upon initial application for gas service. When gas is turned on by the gas system, the gas system shall take reasonable precaution to prevent potential hazards and, as a minimum precaution, shall make a check for leakage using the gas meter in accordance with a procedure at least equal to that described in the latest edition of the American Standard Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping ASA Z21.30. A visual examination of gas utility owned exposed piping and components thereof, along with soil and vegetation conditions in the general vicinity of buried piping and components shall be conducted as a minimum precaution for the discovery of any existing or potential hazards.

HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.scstatehouse.gov/coderegs/Chapter%20103.pdf#page=77>
- Source ID: `sc-leg-pipeline-safety`
- SHA-256: `c138f8b63265ac806fed00836a5437ea574d3b8ba0e6d2fdc0933d2d747a7d55`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:28:25.511Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T08:44:11.377Z
- Document slug: `sc-scr-103-483`

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  "certification": "49 U.S.C. 60105 intrastate-gas program",
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  "sourceNote": "HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008.",
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  "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.",
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    "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.",
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