MRI
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Doing a commercial job at a strip mall yesterday and I ran into some really bad code violations for the panels that control the exterior / parking lot lighting. In a large metal enclosure on the back wall is a 277/480v panel and a 120/208v panel. Numerous wiring violations throughout, exposed bus, etc.
My question is, once I put my hands in there am I responsible to bring this to code? I have brought it to the attention of the property management company telling them someone is going to killed in there one day. This installation is about 40 years old. If I feed a circuit from here or do any work at all with this and something happens will the powers that be come back to me and say I should have known and I should have fixed all of the problems before connecting anything to it?
Thanks.....
My question is, once I put my hands in there am I responsible to bring this to code? I have brought it to the attention of the property management company telling them someone is going to killed in there one day. This installation is about 40 years old. If I feed a circuit from here or do any work at all with this and something happens will the powers that be come back to me and say I should have known and I should have fixed all of the problems before connecting anything to it?
Thanks.....