Clothes Closet

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For a Hotel, do you think 240.24 (D) as shown below about avoiding Clothes Closets applies? The reason I ask is (E) mentions Hotels directly whereas (D) does not.

B) Occupancy Each occupant shall have ready access to all overcurrent devices protecting the conductors supplying that occupancy.
Exception No. 1: Where electric service and electrical maintenance are provided by the building management and where these are under continuous building management supervision, the service overcurrent devices and feeder overcurrent devices supplying more than one occupancy shall be permitted to be accessible to only authorized management personnel in the following:
(1) Multiple-occupancy buildings
(2) Guest rooms or guest suites of hotels and motels that are intended for transient occupancy
Exception No. 2: Where electric service and electrical maintenance are provided by the building management and where these are under continuous building management supervision, the branch circuit overcurrent devices supplying any guest rooms or guest suites shall be permitted to be accessible to only authorized management personnel for guest rooms of hotels and motels that are intended for transient occupancy.
(C) Not Exposed to Physical Damage Overcurrent devices shall be located where they will not be exposed to physical damage.
FPN: See 110.11, Deteriorating Agents.
(D) Not in Vicinity of Easily Ignitible Material Overcurrent devices shall not be located in the vicinity of easily ignitible material, such as in clothes closets.
(E) Not Located in Bathrooms In dwelling units and guest rooms or guest suites of hotels and motels, overcurrent devices, other than supplementary overcurrent protection, shall not be located in bathrooms.
 
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Dirk, I may be incorrect but if I do remember in one of My ceu classes a while back a clothes closet under 240.24(D) is for "all" occupancy types. Not just One and Two Family Dwellings.
 
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(E) is talking about bathrooms. But its authors wanted to distinguish a bathroom in an office or industrial facility from a bathroom in a dwelling unit. Then, just to make the point more clear, they specifically included hotels in the rule for dwelling units.

(D) is an entirely separate rule. There is no need to distinguish one type of facility from another, as it applies to all.

So, yes, (D) applies to hotels.
 
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Charlie, that is exactly what was discussed and quoted in our "minutes" I just could not remember. Thanks. "from previous reply"
 
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