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SENATE BILL 175
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SB 586/24 – EEE (PRE–FILED) CF HB 222
By: Senators Lewis Young and Brooks
Requested: August 30, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Education, Energy, and the Environment
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Public Safety – Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing for Fuel Gas Piping Systems – 2
Requirements and Prohibitions 3
FOR the purpose of prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated 4
stainless steel tubing that does not meet certain qualifications; requiring certain 5
tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in certain buildings to 6
meet certain qualifications; and generally relating to corrugated stainless steel 7
tubing. 8
BY adding to 9
Article – Business Regulation 10
Section 19–108 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2024 Replacement Volume) 13
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 14
Article – Public Safety 15
Section 12–206 16
Annotated Code of Maryland 17
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 18
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 19
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 20
Article – Business Regulation 21
19–108. 22
(A) A PERSON MAY NOT SELL , OFFER FOR SALE , TRANSFER, OR DISTRIBUTE 23 2 SENATE BILL 175
CORRUGATED STAINLESS STEEL TUBING THAT : 1
(1) DOES NOT MEET THE RE QUIREMENTS OF THE LC1027 STANDARD 2
DESCRIBED IN THE MOS T RECENT EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FUEL AND GAS 3
CODE ISSUED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL; OR 4
(2) HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN TO WITHSTAND AT LEAS T 36 COULOMBS 5
OF ELECTRICAL ARCING CHARGE BY AN ELECTRICAL ARC ING TEST. 6
(B) A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS SUBJ ECT TO A CIVIL 7
PENALTY NOT EXCEEDIN G $1,000. 8
Article – Public Safety 9
12–206. 10
(a) This section applies to any building that uses fuel gas piping systems not 11
subject to Title 49, Part 192 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 12
(b) [Non–arc–resistant jacketed] ONLY corrugated stainless steel tubing THAT 13
MEETS THE REQUIREMEN TS OF THE LC1027 STANDARD DESCRIBED I N THE MOST 14
RECENT EDITION OF TH E INTERNATIONAL FUEL AND GAS CODE ISSUED BY THE 15
INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL OR HAS BEEN PROVEN TO WITHSTAND AT LEAS T 16
36 COULOMBS OF ELECTRIC AL ARCING CHARGE BY AN ELECTRICAL ARC ING TEST 17
may [not] be used in: 18
(1) the new construction of a customer–owned natural gas or liquefied 19
propane piping system in a building; 20
(2) a natural gas or liquefied propane piping system in a renovated 21
property if the renovation affects more than 50% of the total square footage of the property; 22
or 23
(3) a natural gas or liquefied propane piping system that requires the 24
addition of a new gas line to the gas piping system. 25
(C) A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS SUBJ ECT TO A CIVIL 26
PENALTY NOT EXCEEDIN G $1,000. 27
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 28
October 1, 2027. 29