110.26

[buzwease]

Local Code Officials may or may not agree but electrical closets have been used for ages to provide the working clearances required by 110-26 and now the local code officials are asking what happens to the clearance when the doors are closed.

 

[charlie b]

The answer is that you can't work on the panel with the door closed. That means that the 110.26 phrase "likely to require" no longer applies.