The owner or user of a boiler required by this chapter to be inspected by the chief inspector, or a deputy inspector, shall pay directly to the State of South Dakota through the Office of the State Fire Marshal, upon completion of the inspection, fees in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) Power boilers and high pressure, high temperature water boilers:

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34-29A-35.1

  • boiler: includes fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other than water where these units are separate from processing systems and are complete within themselves. See South Dakota Codified Laws 34-29A-1

Certificate Inspections

Boilers of 50 sq. ft. of heating surface or less $30.00

Boilers over 50 sq. ft. of heating surface and

less than 4,000 sq. ft. of heating surface 40.00

Boilers of 4,000 sq. ft. of heating surface or more

and less than 10,000 sq. ft of heating surface 50.00

Boilers of 10,000 sq. ft. of heating surface or more 60.00

External Inspections

Boilers of 50 sq. ft. of heating surface or less 15.00

Boilers over 50 sq. ft. of heating surface 25.00

(2) Heating boilers:

Certificate Inspections

Heating boilers without a manhole 20.00

Heating boilers with a manhole 30.00

Hot water supply boilers 10.00

(3) All owners, users, or insurers of qualified boilers shall pay an annual operation certificate fee if the boiler is inspected by a state inspector or a special inspector.

Operation certificate 30.00

In addition to the operation certificate fee required in this section, and, except as provided for in §§ 34-29A-36 and 34-29A-37, no owner, user, or insurer of a boiler which is subject to inspection by the Department of Public Safety may be required to pay more than one certificate inspection fee and one external inspection fee, per boiler, in a twelve-month period.

Source: SL 1982, ch 18, § 58; SL 1991, ch 282, § 2; SL 1996, ch 216, § 3; SL 2003, ch 272, §§ 20, 121; SL 2006, ch 184, § 1; SL 2021, ch 155, § 1.