I understand from a fellow poster and Electrical engineer that there is a code section that allows one to violate a code due to special circumstances?
In all my years I have not read this. Can someone please direct me to this?
Thanks in advance
Sparky
It is not unusual for there to be some provision in the enacting acts and or regulations that put a particular code in place for some kind of allowance for special circumstances.
It is not something that an inspector would be allowed to agree to.
They are not commonly granted, largely because they just are not needed.
Keep in mind that the code means nothing unless some entity (such as your state legislature in concert with the governor) that has access to guys with guns to enforce that code, decides that it means something.
They can add whatever language to it that they want. The enabling act often sets up some kind of board that is authorized to add additional requirements to the code, remove sections from the code, or modify them as they see fit, along with granting exceptions.
In Chicago, the exceptions are readily available (unmarked small bills, please). But most places, they are not common at all.