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Home Design Standards – Home Building Standards, 3Q10 Ed.      Page  384

ii)        other object at all possibly to become energized, including but not limited to bare metal pipe or similar

b)     a clothes washer  within 6 linear feet of a water source or container or any other potentially energized conductor without regard to the supply receptacle’s site or surrounding state of finish

 

11)     A utility electric receptacle 

a)     shall not be placed flat to a counter in a kitchen counter area, peninsula, or island

b)     shall not be placed below countertop level, as on the side of a counter, peninsula, or island

c)      except a utility receptacle 

i)        may be placed in the parting wall of a two-tier counter, peninsula, or island

ii)      if set flush to that wall and

iii)    if protected by a ground fault electrical circuit interrupter

d)     otherwise, a utility receptacle in an island or peninsula shall be a pedestal receptacle or pedestal electric outlet wiring, a/k/a tombstone receptacle wiring, tombstone electric outlet wiring, monument receptacle wiring, and monument electric outlet wiring 

 

Comment:  The AG knows that this receptacle limitation is off the National Electric Code 2005 reservation, wherein below-counter receptacle placement may be made more permissively than the old boy’ll let happen on his watch. 

Too bad for the folks who follow the code.  This is about deadly serious safety concerns.

 

12)     Hallway receptacles shall be wired only on their own electrical circuit(s) wiring and none shall be connected to any other electrical circuit wiring

 

13)    All 120V, nonlight electrical wiring in a room, including hallways and vestibules collectively as a room, shall be from the same electrical distribution panel and hot bus 

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