ground wire

[hurk27]

And I have never seen a meter that has a lug for a GEC.
Our state rules do not allow bonding GEC in meter socket.
As Don points out the NEC allows the connection between the service drop and service equipment enclosure. Its most commonly done in the service enclosure as thats the easiest location to make the connection.
The AHJ would likely wonder whats up if it was done at the service drop. This violates the "don't confuse the inspector" rule.

Now you have, Note the extra lug to the right of the neutral terminals between the red insulators.



Indiana also allows the GEC to land in the meter base as some inspectors also tried to say it wasnt acessable for inspection, but it was shown that it always is before the meter is sealed at the time of the service inspection.
We get power to the service while the house is still under construction for temp power.

 

[Little Bill]

It used to be common here to run the GEC to the weatherhead and then the POCO would connect it to the grounded conductor. That is the way it is on my house now.

Now we run it into the meter socket. Yes, as Hurk showed in the pic, there is a lug in there for the GEC. Even on some of the older installs where the GEC is connected at the weatherhead, the meter bases still had the lug in them.