Entrance to Electrical Room

[Grouch1980]

Hi all,
I may have asked this question several years ago, but I couldn't find it in my posts. Can you enter the main electrical room with all the service equipment by going through a gas / water meter room? in other words, the electrical room is inside the gas room. it doesn't have a direct exit to an egress corridor.

 

[Hv&Lv]

Doesn’t that requirement depend on size ratings?

Egress - Unobstructed (as applied to NEC 110.26 (C)(2)(a means an egress path that allows a worker to travel to the exit from any other area in the room containing the equipment described in NEC 110.26 (C)(2) without having to pass through that equipment's required working space.

 

[Grouch1980]

I seem to remember someone once saying that the NEC only covers the electrical room itself... spacing of equipment, number of exits, etc. Whatever is outside the door, it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure.

 

[Hv&Lv]

I seem to remember someone once saying that the NEC only covers the electrical room itself... spacing of equipment, number of exits, etc. Whatever is outside the door, it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure.

that's kind of the way I’ve read it also.
as far as going through the meter room I see lots of malls and mills like this.
I think this would be an AHJ call.