Hotel Suites

[CJM]

We are designing a hotel with individual suites that contain full kitchens with permanent cooking thus we will be following the guidelines of a dwelling unit for branch circuit and receptacles. My question is since each suite is considered a dwelling unit is there a section in the code that requires each suite to have it's own loadcenter or panelboard?

 

[bphgravity]

No............

 

[infinity]

The information is here:

240.24 Location in or on Premises.
(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.

 

[CJM]

Thank you Trevor, that is exactly the section that I was looking for.