SDLRC Codified Law 34-29B, Fire Prevention, South Dakota Legislature was read on September 23, 2026, and every quote on this page came off that page on that day. Fifty states were read the same way for the national comparison.

South Dakota Carbon Monoxide Detector Law: There Isn't One

Q: Is a carbon monoxide alarm required anywhere in South Dakota?

Not by a statewide section. SDLRC Codified Law 34-29B, Fire Prevention, South Dakota Legislature was read and carries no alarm duty for a dwelling. What a South Dakota reader has instead is the building code their own county or city adopted, and eight states in total sit in that position.

Q: Where does South Dakota say the alarm goes?

South Dakota does not print a location in the section. 20 states do, which leaves the rest to the manufacturer's instructions and to whichever building code the installation is inspected under.

Q: Who is responsible in a rented home in South Dakota?

South Dakota law does not put a separate carbon monoxide duty on a landlord, so a rented home sits under whatever general requirement the state wrote.

No state section

Required in a home

8 states read the same way

Nothing to reach

Reaches a home already lived in

10 of the 42 states reach one

No state section

In a rented home

28 states write a landlord duty

Not stated

Where the code says to put it

20 states print a spot

September 23, 2026

Read

off the state’s own published code

The short answer

South Dakota has no statewide carbon monoxide alarm law.

South Dakota has no carbon monoxide alarm requirement in its codified laws or its administrative rules, for any building: the state fire marshal's rules adopt the 2015 International Building, Fire and Mechanical codes for buildings used by the public, lodging and eating establishments, multifamily residences housing six or more families, publicly owned buildings, detention facilities and day care facilities, and for a one or two family house the International Residential Code applies only where the municipality has adopted it.

No section of South Dakota law attaches a carbon monoxide alarm duty to a dwelling, which leaves the answer to the building code the county or city adopted.

None statewideNo section in the state coderead September 23, 2026

What the code does say

No section of South Dakota law puts an alarm in a dwelling

The reading covered the South Dakota code looking for a section attaching a carbon monoxide alarm duty to a dwelling, which is the section the 42 states that require one carry. There is not one. That is an answer to the question rather than a hole in the page, so it is printed as one.

What still reaches a building in South Dakota is the building code a county or a city adopted, published by that county or that city rather than by the state, and that is a local question rather than a state one. 8 states read the same way.

What was searched

SDLRC Codified Law 34-29B, Fire Prevention, South Dakota Legislature

ReachNo statewide requirement
SourceSDLRC Codified Law 34-29B, Fire Prevention, South Dakota Legislature

The question is answered by whichever building code the county or city adopted, which is a different answer in a different county.

What counts as an alarm

South Dakota names no alarm standard in the section

South Dakota names no alarm standard in the section, which leaves approval to the code the building is inspected under.

38 states of the fifty name a standard and 16 say in writing that a combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarm satisfies the requirement. Where a state named none, approval belongs to the code the building is inspected under, which is a local reading rather than a state one.

How South Dakota compares

The same question in the other forty nine

42 states require a carbon monoxide alarm in a home and 8 have no statewide section for one. Of the 42, 10 reach a home already lived in, 25 wait for a sale, a permit or a first build, and 28 reach a rented home.

The bar splits the fifty by what their section touches, and the table beneath it puts them in alphabetical order for finding a particular one. Neither order tracks how cold a state gets.

10Every home

4Rented and new

11Permit or new build

8Sale or transfer

6New build only

3Rented only

8None statewide

All fifty states, alphabetical. Reach is what the section speaks to: the dwelling itself, or an event happening to it.
State	Reach	Rented homes	Placement rule	Citation
Alabama	Permit or new build	No	No	Ala. Admin. Code r. 305-2-4-.09 (Residential Building Codes), adopted by the Alabama Energy and Residential Codes Board under Code of Ala. 1975, Sections 41-23-80 through 41-23-85
Alaska	Every home	Yes	Yes	Alaska Stat. 18.70.095(a)
Arizona	None statewide	No	No	No section
Arkansas	Permit or new build	No	No	12 CAR pt. 15, Arkansas Fire Prevention Code, 2021 Edition, Volume III
California	Every home	Yes	Yes	Cal. Health & Safety Code 17926(a)
Colorado	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	C.R.S. 38-45-102
Connecticut	New build only	No	No	Conn. Gen. Stat. §29-292
Delaware	Rented only	Yes	No	16 Del. C. 6602C
Florida	New build only	Yes	Yes	Fla. Stat. 553.885
Georgia	New build only	No	No	Georgia State Amendments to the International Residential Code (2024 Edition), Section R311 Carbon Monoxide Alarms, revising Section R311.2.1, adopted by the Department of Community Affairs under the Uniform Codes Act, O.C.G.A. Section 8-2-20 et seq.
Hawaii	Permit or new build	No	No	Haw. Rev. Stat. 107-25, with the code adopted under it
Idaho	New build only	No	No	Idaho Code 39-4116(2)(b), with the code itself defined at 39-4109(1)(b)
Illinois	Every home	Yes	Yes	430 ILCS 135/10
Indiana	Permit or new build	No	No	675 IAC 14-4.4-27 (2020 Indiana Residential Code, amending Section R315.2.2 of the 2018 International Residential Code)
Iowa	Every home	Yes	No	Iowa Code 10A.518(3)(b)
Kansas	None statewide	No	No	No section
Kentucky	New build only	No	No	815 KAR 7:125, promulgated under KRS 198B.040(7) and 198B.050
Louisiana	Sale or transfer	Yes	No	La. R.S. 40:1581
Maine	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	25 M.R.S. §2468
Maryland	Rented and new	Yes	Yes	Md. Code, Public Safety § 12-1104
Massachusetts	Every home	Yes	No	M.G.L. c. 148, §26F1/2
Michigan	Permit or new build	Yes	Yes	MCL 125.1504f (Stille-DeRossett-Hale Single State Construction Code Act, 1972 PA 230, Sec. 4f; the "Overbeck law")
Minnesota	Every home	Yes	Yes	Minn. Stat. 299F.51, subd. 1 (a)
Mississippi	None statewide	No	No	Senate Bill 2378, 2014 Regular Session, Section 1
Missouri	None statewide	No	No	No section
Montana	Rented only	Yes	No	Mont. Code Ann. 70-24-303(1)(g)
Nebraska	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-604
Nevada	None statewide	No	No	No section
New Hampshire	Rented and new	Yes	No	RSA 153:10-a
New Jersey	Sale or transfer	Yes	No	N.J.S.A. 52:27D-133.3
New Mexico	Permit or new build	No	No	14.7.3 NMAC, 2021 New Mexico Residential Building Code
New York	Every home	Yes	No	N.Y. Exec. Law 378(5-a)
North Carolina	Rented and new	Yes	Yes	N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-42(a)(7)
North Dakota	None statewide	No	No	N.D. Admin. Code 45-18-01-04
Ohio	Every home	Yes	Yes	Ohio Adm.Code 1301:7-7-11 (Ohio Fire Code, Chapter 11), modifying International Fire Code Sections 1101.1 and 1103.9
Oklahoma	Permit or new build	No	No	OAC 748:20-6-1
Oregon	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	Or. Rev. Stat. 105.838
Pennsylvania	Rented only	Yes	Yes	Carbon Monoxide Alarm Standards Act, Act of Dec. 18, 2013, P.L. 1229, No. 121, section 4
Rhode Island	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	Rhode Island Life Safety Code, 450-RICR-00-00-8, §24.6.3.1 (adopted under R.I. Gen. Laws §23-28.1-2)
South Carolina	Permit or new build	No	No	S.C. Code Regs. R.8-1200 (2021 International Residential Code as adopted), promulgated under S.C. Code Ann. Section 6-9-40 and Section 6-9-50
South Dakota	None statewide	No	No	No section
Tennessee	Permit or new build	No	No	Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0780-02-23-.02 (Adoption by Reference), Division of Fire Prevention, under T.C.A. Section 68-120-101(a), (b), and (d)
Texas	Permit or new build	No	No	Tex. Loc. Gov't Code 214.212
Utah	Permit or new build	No	No	Utah Code 15A-2-103(1)(b)
Vermont	Sale or transfer	Yes	Yes	9 V.S.A. §2882
Virginia	New build only	Yes	Yes	13VAC5-63-240 (Virginia Construction Code, Section 915 as amended), adopted under Va. Code § 36-99
Washington	Every home	Yes	Yes	Wash. Rev. Code 19.27.530
West Virginia	Rented and new	Yes	Yes	W. Va. Code § 15A-10-12
Wisconsin	Every home	Yes	Yes	Wis. Stat. 101.647 (3) (a)
Wyoming	None statewide	No	No	No section

A row of tall nineteenth century brick and frame houses on Queen City Avenue in the South Fairmount neighbourhood of Cincinnati, under a clear sky. — Housing this old is the whole question. Ohio is one of ten states whose carbon monoxide section attaches to the dwelling itself, so it reaches these houses as they stand. In most of the country the same section would wait for one of them to be sold, altered under permit or rebuilt. “Queen City Avenue, South Fairmount, Cincinnati, OH (28224745388)”, Warren LeMay, CC0

South Dakota carbon monoxide alarm questions

Does South Dakota require a carbon monoxide detector?

South Dakota has no carbon monoxide alarm requirement in its codified laws or its administrative rules, for any building: the state fire marshal's rules adopt the 2015 International Building, Fire and Mechanical codes for buildings used by the public, lodging and eating establishments, multifamily residences housing six or more families, publicly owned buildings, detention facilities and day care facilities, and for a one or two family house the International Residential Code applies only where the municipality has adopted it.

Is a carbon monoxide alarm required anywhere in South Dakota?

Where does South Dakota say the alarm goes?

Who is responsible in a rented home in South Dakota?

When was this read?

Carbon monoxide detector laws in every state

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South Dakota read September 23, 2026, off the state’s own published code, as part of a reading of all fifty compiled September 23, 2026. Every quotation above is reproduced in the source’s own wording and links back to the document it was read from. Legislatures amend these between sessions, and a county or city building code can reach a building the state code does not, so the link beside a quote is what governs on the day. What South Dakota wrote is what this page carries: the duty, what it attaches to, where the code puts the alarm, what it says about a rented home, and the sentence it set.