South Dakota Department of Public Safety – State Fire Marshal
Plan review, enforcement, and inspection is limited to school facilities, day care facilities, and group family day care homes. There are no statewide Commercial Energy codes. Building and energy codes for other types of buildings are enforced at the local level only. If the local unit of government adopts any ordinance prescribing standards for new construction, the ordinance must use the 2012 edition of the IBC. Codes for one- and two-family dwellings (Residential Code) are handled at the local level.
State inspectors exist for projects under the jurisdiction of the state.
Code amendments do not involve subjects involving wood construction.
Unknown. Individual communities usually adopt shortly after the State laws go into effect, but that is not always the followed procedure. Locals are permitted to adopt newer editions of the I-Codes.
Unknown.