How should one respond to being failed for said infraction. I was thinking to ask AHJ for a code reference, which should be done for all failures imo, but unsure. Obviously don’t want to make him mad or look bad. But he is wrong... unless he has a written amendment correct?
he will not have a written amendment that says EGC must be irreversibly spliced or continuous... Doesn't exist anywhere.
as the code is permissive, you do not need a code section saying you can do something, he needs a code section saying you can't do it.
That said, people and real-world egos are involved, always find it is better to ask an inspector on a citation that is not written out as a code section violation to show me or tell me in the book where it is.
If you come off as confrontational, it is easy for somebody else to get that way as well, if you ask somebody to teach you, it puts the other person in a position to help, and stroke their ego rather than deflate it, or at the very least to help you to not appear like a rectal entryway.
Of course, it largely depends, at least to me anyway, how much time said violation will take to fix, or how ridiculous the false citation is. Not being able to splice an EGC, barring some building code or extremely obscure installation which I am unaware, is so laughable that I would have to fight that one regardless of if I po the inspector.
In addition to Rob's excellent point regarding the green wire nuts, one can also use Wagos, split bolts, Polaris connectors, and so on.
