GFCI in elevator pit

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I have an RFI in hand for a project under construction, asking whether the receptacle in an elevator control closet (non-dwelling unit) needs GFCI protection. I thought that since the receptacle in the elevator pit is always GFCI, perhaps the one in the control closet should be too. Now I can't find proof that the one in the pit requires GFCI! I will require it on my designs, regardless of whether the NEC requires it, since the elevator pit is often a nasty working environment. But neither 210.8 nor 620.23(C) nor 620.24(C) seems to require it, and I thought it was a requirement. What am I missing? :confused:
 
620.85 Ground-Fault Circuit-Interrupter Protection for
Personnel. Each 125-volt, single-phase, 15- and 20-ampere
receptacle installed in pits, in hoistways, on elevator car
tops, and in escalator and moving walk wellways shall be
of the ground-fault circuit-interrupter type. Is this what you were looking for?
 
jamesoftn said:
Is this what you were looking for?
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Yes, that is it. Many thanks.

Why, I must now wonder, did they put the requirement there? They state that you need a receptacle earlier in the chapter, and they could have said GFCI back there! Did they somehow think that GFCI has something to do with "grounding," the title of 620 chapter IX?

I still don't see the requirement for GFCI in the elevator control room. So I will respond to the RFI that it is not required.
 
We are about to do (11) of them and all will have GFCI. How about the GFCI for personnel like on roof tops? No code book to look up. Sitting on my --- right now.
 
I was taught that part of elevator electrical was required to conform to ANSI codes standards along with the NEC.
I Think that ANSI also covers part of NFPA 72 fire alarm requirements for elevator machine rooms and Hoist-ways?
 
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