South Carolina enforces the 2009 IECC residential

Record of adoption

In force since

Jan 1, 2013

Legal citation

S.C. Code Ann. 6-10-30

Adopted by

General Assembly (statute); Council adopted Apr 2, 2012, per its table

Second reading

Agreed Oct 19, 2026

Applies

Statewide

State amendments

None

Also called

Energy Standard Act

The edition is fixed by statute, so the Council’s 2024 code cycle did not move the energy code. The Jan 1, 2013, date comes from the Council’s adoption table.

Exceptions

• Local jurisdictions may seek a Council variance (6-10-40)

How South Carolina adopts the IECC residential

• Statute
• The legislature names the edition in statute

Section 6-10-30 names the 2009 IECC as the Energy Standard (a 2012 act replaced 2006 with 2009), so changing the edition appears to need an amendment to the statute. The Council’s 2025 adoption notice says the 2009 IECC is statutorily adopted and lists no newer IECC.

Cycle. Irregular; set by statute.

Laws, rulings, and other actions

1. UndatedLegislation
   S.C. Code Ann. 6-10-30 (Energy Standard, as amended by a 2012 act)

   Statute adopts the 2009 IECC as the state Energy Standard; the 2012 act replaced 2006 with 2009.

   Enacted, in force

   scstatehouse.gov (opens in a new tab)

How it was checked

Verified

Two separate readings of the state’s own record agree, and the passage is on file word for word.

Read twice: a second, blind reading of the state’s record agreed with the first on Oct 19, 2026.

The state’s record was last read on Oct 19, 2026, from three source pages.

Evidence 3 sources

Sources for the record itself come first, the state’s own records ahead of others. A label marks a source about something else, such as an exception. A source marked secondary is not the state’s own record.

• “The 2009 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code is adopted as the Energy Standard.”

• “2020 National Electrical Code* October 6, 2021 January 1, 2023 2009 International Energy Conservation Code¹ April 2, 2012 January 1, 2013”

• “On August 26, 2025, the South Carolina Building Codes Council adopted the latest editions of the mandatory codes”

Tracker cross-checks

Code adoption trackers are a cross-check. They are not South Carolina’s own record.

• DOE’s energycodes.govCross-checkAgrees with the record

  Current State Code: 2009 IECC; Effective Date 01/01/2013; Mandatory Statewide; no pending entries

  energycodes.gov (opens in a new tab)Read Oct 17, 2026

Related pages

• See South Carolina’s IECC residential on the map
• IECC residential adoption in every state
• All six codes in South Carolina

Other codes in South Carolina

• NEC2020 NECVerified
• IBC2021 IBCVerified
• IRC2021 IRCVerified
• IFC2021 IFCVerified
• IECC commercial2009 IECCVerified