This may help: See 58-5-390 Tap fees for installation and maintenance of fire sprinkler system at http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t58c005.php
South Carolina Code of Laws Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers CHAPTER 5 - Gas, Heat, Water, Sewerage Collection and Disposal, and Street Railway Companies ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions SECTION 58-5-390. Tap fees for installation and maintenance of fire sprinkler system; exception. (A) A publicly or privately owned utility may not impose a tap fee, other fee, or a recurring maintenance fee of any nature or however described for the installation and maintenance of a fire sprinkler system that exceeds the actual costs associated with the water line to the system. (B) For purposes of this section, actual costs include direct labor, direct material, the necessity of increased capacity, and other direct charges associated with the separate fire sprinkler line. The direct costs must be documented by either an invoice or work order that specifically assigns the costs to the separate fire sprinkler line. Nothing in this section may be construed as requiring a utility to provide service to support a private fire protection system. (C) Nothing in this section shall give the commission or the regulatory staff any power to regulate or interfere with public utilities owned or operated by or on behalf of any municipality, county, or regional transportation authority as defined in Chapter 25 of this title or their agencies. HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 357, Section 1, eff June 25, 2008; 2010 Act No. 232, Section 3, eff June 7, 2010. Respectfully, David Blackwell David Blackwell, P.E. Chief Engineer (803)896-9833 Office of State Fire Marshal 141 Monticello Trail | Columbia, SC 29203 http://scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ (803)896-9800 From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Verhei Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 12:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fire Sprinkler Article Request: quick-RA *** SCDLLR NOTICE *** • This email is from an external email address. Please use caution when deciding whether to open any attachments or when clicking links. • Personally Identifiable Information (PII) should not be included in e-mail text or attachments. Do not save or transmit PII unencrypted. Are there states that have dealt with the water system development fee issue? This is still a common barrier. Best Bruce Verhei On Apr 19, 2017, at 14:29, å... .... <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: One of my takes on this residential focus of fire protection is yet again another win (thus far) for profit over good judgment. In this case of residential application, safety of the user is competing against profit of the current sprinkler design/install industry. Clearly there is cost savings and safety winnings for the residential user with the plumber proposal. I understand the residential sprinkler industry wants to maintain design-install quality. But then, we should also want to maintain quality ITM quality for the residential community. Only in this, there is very little money, at least until someone figures out a way to codify the ITM. But such a prescription would tip our hand to the home builders' lobby . This idea is moneyball for almost-all homeowners, but it does not play well with the monetized profit sought by the current residential sprinkler design and install industry. The collateral cost of profit has bought a lot of the unwanted things that we got. Scot Deal Excelsior Fire & Risk Engineering gms: +420 608 318 498 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
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