44:75:14:24Emergency

electrical circuit connections. Emergency electrical service shall be furnished to circuits as follows: (1) Lighting of exit ways and all necessary ways of approach to them, including exit signs and exit direction signs, exterior of exits, exit doorways, stairways, and corridors; (2) Surgical, obstetrical, and emergency room operating lights; (3) Lighting for nursery, laboratory, recovery room, intensive care areas, nursing stations, medication preparation areas, and labor rooms; (4) Lighting for the generator set location, the switch gear location, and the boiler room; (5) Equipment essential to life safety and for protection of important equipment or vital materials; (6) Nurses calling system; (7) Alarm system, including fire alarms actuated at manual stations; (8) Water flow alarm devices of sprinkler system if electrically operated; (9) Fire detecting and smoke detecting systems; (10) Paging or speaker systems if intended for issuing instructions during emergency conditions; (11) Alarms required for nonflammable medical gas systems, if installed; (12) Receptacles for incubators for infants; (13) Pump for central suction system; (14) Sewage or sump lift pump, if installed; (15) Receptacles for blood bank refrigerator; (16) At least two duplex receptacles for the laboratory; (17) Receptacles in operating, recovery, intensive care, and delivery rooms except those for X ray; (18) At least one duplex receptacle in each nursery; (19) Duplex receptacles in patient corridors; and (20) Equipment, such as burners and pumps, necessary for operation of one or more boilers required for heating and sterilization and their necessary auxiliaries and controls.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 6 SDR 93, effective July 1, 1980; 14 SDR 81, effective December 10, 1987; 22 SDR 70, effective November 19, 1995; transferred from § 44:04:14:25, 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015.