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a.wayne3@verizon.net
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The other day I got a call from AHJ asking if I was in the sub division,there was a problem...So off I go...Met with the inspector this is a 5400 sq. ft home that was getting a final.We have a 2 part inspection rough then final.I asked what was wrong and he told me that there was a receptacle in the laundry room within 6 ft. of the sink that wasn`t stickered gfci protected.He asked if it was on the gfci circuit.No I told him,now he says that it has to be if within 6 ft. of the sink,We are under 2002 code here. I looked at him a bit strange and said why it`s not required to be gfci protected.He insisted it had to be so out comes the code book I go to 210.8 and asked him to show it to me that it had to be gfci.After about 15 min. of looking he calls his chief and explains what there is.The chief sounded about as bewildered as he was.I told him that when 99 came in it took that out of the senario and that 2002 only addreses a wet bar sink and this isnt a wet bar.Well it should be he tells me.Yes I agreed i think it should be but since the NEC is what we go by then it doesn`t have to be gfci.he passed it reluctently but I gained allot of respect on that one.If required we will follow but just because it is what they think it should be doesn`t mean that I`ll fold.Just wanted to vent a bit here.The moral,if right fight if wrong fold the hand