NEC 2020 210.70 (A) (1) HABITABLE ROOMS

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210.70(A)(1) Habitable Rooms.

At least one lighting outlet controlled by a listed wall-mounted control device shall be installed in every habitable room, kitchen, and bathroom. The wall-mounted control device shall be located near an entrance to the room on a wall.

Is it the intent of the code to install switches at each entrance to a room? Let's say the room has two entrances?
 
"Located near an entrance" (singular) would mean any one entrance even if there are more than one.
 
If a room is lets say 25' from entry to entry with two entrances..Only one switch in the room is required?
 
PRISM said:
210.70(A)(1) Habitable Rooms.

At least one lighting outlet controlled by a listed wall-mounted control device
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NEC 210.70(A)(1) avoids the word "switch," and refuses to define "wall-mounted control device."

What prohibits a listed battery operated, ceiling fan remote control, screwed to the wall?

Does Exception No. 1 really allow battery-operated remote controlled receptacles, with no ceiling light outlets?
 
Rick 0920 said:
I hate the ambiguous term "near". That gives the AHJ too much power in interpretation.
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I've been complaining about that code change since it first entered the wording of the NEC. One of the finest examples of the cluelessness of the CMP that voted to include the word near in the code language.
 
So you could have a bedroom with a pullchain fixture above the bed, as long as you have a switch controlling a receptacle outlet, in the same single gang box somewhere near the door.
 
jim dungar said:
So you could have a bedroom with a pullchain fixture above the bed, as long as you have a switch controlling a receptacle outlet, in the same single gang box somewhere near the door.
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If you had a split-wired receptacle controlled by a switch "near" the entrance to the room, you wouldn't even need a ceiling outlet. But you certainly could do what you've described.
 
infinity said:
I've been complaining about that code change since it first entered the wording of the NEC. One of the finest examples of the cluelessness of the CMP that voted to include the word near in the code language.
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It's been many years since they changed it, but I remember when referring to floor receptacles that would count as wall spacing receptacles, they needed to be located "close" to the wall! LOL
 
PRISM said:
210.70(A)(1) Habitable Rooms.

At least one lighting outlet controlled by a listed wall-mounted control device shall be installed in every habitable room, kitchen, and bathroom. The wall-mounted control device shall be located near an entrance to the room on a wall.

Is it the intent of the code to install switches at each entrance to a room? Let's say the room has two entrances?
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Remember, the requirement to have the switch near the door only came in the 2020 code. Prior to that, for the history of the code, you could put it anywhere in the room, forcing the occupants to walk across the room in the dark to get to the switch. I have never known it to be an issue, but someone COULD do it. Some of these I have never contested because that I how I would have done it anyway. Everyone above is correct, only one switch required.
 
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