2014 Massachusetts NEC Amendments

[shortcircuit2]

Below is a link to the 2014 Massachusetts amendments to the National Electrical Code.

http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dfs/board-meetings/2013-9-7-massachusetts-2014-code.pdf

 

[iwire]

Thank you.

 

[jumper]

Is this a typo or am I not awake?

406.4(D)(3).
Delete the exception.

 

[electricmanscott]

What is 406.(D)(3) and the exception?

 

[jumper]

What is 406.(D)(3) and the exception?

I cannot find an exception to 406.4(D)(3)

406.4(D)(3) Ground-Fault Circuit-Interrupters. Ground-fault
circuit-interrupter protected receptacles shall be provided
where replacements are made at receptacle outlets that are
required to be so protected elsewhere in this Code.

 

[LEO2854]

Below is a link to the 2014 Massachusetts amendments to the National Electrical Code.

http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dfs/board-meetings/2013-9-7-massachusetts-2014-code.pdf

Good man...:thumbsup:

 

[LEO2854]

Is this a typo or am I not awake?

It was supposed to be in the 2014 NEC but it looks like it never made it in the 2014.

 

[George Stolz]

My books in the truck but I could have sworn I saw that change.

 

[shortcircuit2]

2014 Code in Force Jan 1 2014

2014 Code in Force Jan 1 2014

Just to let you Mass guys know, the 2014 MEC is effective as of January 1st 2014 for permits granted thereafter. The Secretary of Commonwealth has signed off on the amendments. I just received my copy of the amendments in the mail from the State Book Store...$1.05 plus shipping. Came next day mail. Not sure when the MEC will go to print?

 

[electrofelon]

Below is a link to the 2014 Massachusetts amendments to the National Electrical Code.

http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dfs/board-meetings/2013-9-7-massachusetts-2014-code.pdf

Interesting, they allow a lot more ccc in the 70% derating column. ..

 

[jaylectricity]

Just to let you Mass guys know, the 2014 MEC is effective as of January 1st 2014 for permits granted thereafter. The Secretary of Commonwealth has signed off on the amendments. I just received my copy of the amendments in the mail from the State Book Store...$1.05 plus shipping. Came next day mail. Not sure when the MEC will go to print?

Well, I hope nothing in the new code will affect the job I looked at today because I could have pulled the permit a couple of weeks ago.

Oh well, I'll get paid either way.

 

[Real_Bostonian]

Not sure when the MEC will go to print?

The new 2014 MEC is available directly thru MECA.

 

[jxofaltrds]

Below is a link to the 2014 Massachusetts amendments to the National Electrical Code.

http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dfs/board-meetings/2013-9-7-massachusetts-2014-code.pdf

Is it me or does anyone else wonder this?

NFPA is at 1 Batterymarch Park Quincy, Massachusetts yet Mass state still believes that changes need to be made to the NEC?????

 

[jaylectricity]

Is it me or does anyone else wonder this?

NFPA is at 1 Batterymarch Park Quincy, Massachusetts yet Mass state still believes that changes need to be made to the NEC?????

So only people in Massachusetts make proposals to the code? It's a big country. Massachusetts isn't trying to rule the country.

The National Electric Code is just that...national. It's just that being an old state, MA has some different things going on than the rest of the country. Why insist the entire country do things the way we need to do them up here?

 

[jxofaltrds]

So only people in Massachusetts make proposals to the code? It's a big country. Massachusetts isn't trying to rule the country.

The National Electric Code is just that...national. It's just that being an old state, MA has some different things going on than the rest of the country. Why insist the entire country do things the way we need to do them up here?

Maybe the rest of us could benefit from that knowledge.

I'll agree that you have "some different things going on" up there but how is that electrically related? :happyno:

 

[iwire]

Interesting, they allow a lot more ccc in the 70% derating column. ..

That is what the NEC table used to look like and you can still find it in the NEC at the rear.

Table B.310.11

 

[Fliz]

310.15(B)(3)(a) seems pretty big to me. I love the informational note: "overheating may occur".

I guess Mass' 43 cc conductors is to them what ten cc conductors is to us. I think the point of this amendment is to take into consideration how the addition of a neutral wire cancels out the inductance that occurs with a single cc conductor. Still, I think the informational note should be the rule, not just a handy tip.

 

[jaylectricity]

Maybe the rest of us could benefit from that knowledge.

I'll agree that you have "some different things going on" up there but how is that electrically related? :happyno:

It brings new meaning to the term alternate current.