A little IRC help.

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jes25

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Since I don't do much resedential these days I don't have the latest version of the IRC. Does anyone know if the exception for a regular, aka non-gfi'd, receptacle in a garage still exists in the 2006 IRC. E3802 in my 2000 copy. We recently adopted the '06 IRC and '08 NEC here in Michigan.

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mweaver

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2006 IRC garage receptacle info....

2006 IRC garage receptacle info....

Jes25,

I do hope this is helpful?

From the 2006 IRC:

E3802.2 Garage and accessory building receptacles.
All 125-volt, single-phase, 15- or 20-ampere receptacles installed in
garages and grade-level portions of unfinished accessory buildings
used for storage or work areas shall have ground-fault circuit-
interrupter protection for personnel (see Section E3802.11).
Exceptions:
1. Receptacles that are not readily accessible.
2. A single receptacle or a duplex receptacle for two appliances
located within dedicated space for each appliance
that in normal use is not easily moved from one place to
another, and that is cord- and plug-connected.


mweaver
 

raider1

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Logan, Utah
The discrepancy that I have found between this IRC section and the NEC section is that the GFCI requirement in the 2006 IRC only applies to unfinished portions of accessory structures, whereas 210.8(A)(2) in the 2005 NEC applies to accessory structures, not just the unfinished portions.

Chris
 
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