12:11:02:12.  Installation of equipment. All equipment and piping must be designed and installed so as to be easily accessible for cleaning and must be kept in good repair and free from cracks and corroded surfaces. Milk pumps shall be of a sanitary type and easily dismantled for cleaning. New or rearranged equipment must be set out approximately 24 inches from any wall or spaced at least 24 inches between pieces of equipment that measure more than 48 inches on the parallel sides. This requirement does not apply between tanks if the face of the tanks extend through a wall into a processing room. All parts or interior surfaces of equipment, pipes, except certain piping cleaned in place, or fittings, including valves and connections, must be accessible for inspection. Cleaned-in-place sanitary piping and welded sanitary pipeline systems, if used, are acceptable if engineered and installed according to the 3-A Sanitary Standards and Accepted Practices for permanently installed sanitary product pipelines and cleaning systems.

          Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 12 SDR 102, effective December 25, 1985; 12 SDR 128, 12 SDR 154, effective July 1, 1986; 32 SDR 203, effective June 6, 2006; 46 SDR 46, effective October 8, 2019.

          General Authority: SDCL 39-8-4.

          Law Implemented: SDCL 39-8-4.