New wiring in an old building

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odyssey1

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Pulaski Va
Hello everyone.

We are remodeling a 7 story apartment building (considered a high rise). We are replacing the service, apartment panels, feeders to the apartment panels, and apartment wiring. There is some romex installed in common spaces that is not part of the scope of our project. The AHJ is requiring us to find all of the installed romex and replace it with MC cable. Is there a code section that requires us to be responsible for all of the wiring in a building if we are just replacing a portion? It will be a large cost consideration for the owner if we have to examine the entire building.

Thank you !
 

Smart $

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Ohio
Code has few requirements for replacements and additions. Its AHJ prerogative, but given the scope of your work, I'd say the AHJ is making an appropriate requirement. However, if your project scope does not include the common spaces affected, that will fall back on the owner to appease the AHJ.
 

augie47

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Tennessee
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State Electrical Inspector (Retired)
As Smart$ states, local call not a NEC issue. In many jurisdictions, if the existing wiring was installed per Code at the time of installation, and the wiring is not exposed by the remodel work, then there is no requirement (local) to address it.
 

odyssey1

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Pulaski Va
Thanks for the help guys. I found some more information in the informative annex H, 80.9(B) and (C). It looks like as long as the existing wiring is safe, it can remain. AHJ still has final say though.
 
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