kitchen counter receptacles

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If i have two small appliance circuits in the kitchen can i install another counter top receptacle and connect it with another circuit or does it also have to be a small appliance circuit. I want to connect this receptacle with the dw circuit. I have an existing installation and this is how its wired. Thanks for any help.
 
The DW cannot be on a small appliance branch circuit.

210.52(B) Small Appliances.
(1) Receptacle Outlets Served. In the kitchen, pantry, breakfast room, dining room, or similar area of a dwelling unit, the two or more 20-ampere small-appliance branch circuits required by 210.11(C)(1) shall serve all wall and floor receptacle outlets covered by 210.52(A), all countertop outlets covered by 210.52(C), and receptacle outlets for refrigeration equipment.
Exception No. 1: In addition to the required receptacles specified by 210.52, switched receptacles supplied from a general-purpose branch circuit as defined in 210.70(A)(1), Exception No. 1, shall be permitted.
Exception No. 2: The receptacle outlet for refrigeration equipment shall be permitted to be supplied from an individual branch circuit rated 15 amperes or greater.
(2) No Other Outlets. The two or more small-appliance branch circuits specified in 210.52(B)(1) shall have no other outlets.
Exception No. 1: A receptacle installed solely for the electrical supply to and support of an electric clock in any of the rooms specified in 210.52(B)(1).
Exception No. 2: Receptacles installed to provide power for supplemental equipment and lighting on gas-fired ranges, ovens, or counter-mounted cooking units.
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This is how I would describe the situation.
  1. If you put a receptacle in a location that allows it to serve the kitchen countertop surface, then the circuit that supplies that receptacle becomes, by definition, a SABC.
  2. That brings to bear the requirements that it be a 20 amp circuit, and that it serve no outlets other than those that are required to be on SABCs.
  3. Therefore, a kitchen countertop receptacle and a DW cannot share a circuit.
 
kitsr said:
If i have two small appliance circuits in the kitchen can i install another counter top receptacle and connect it with another circuit or does it also have to be a small appliance circuit. I want to connect this receptacle with the dw circuit. I have an existing installation and this is how its wired. Thanks for any help.
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If your feed goes to the DW, just continue the receptacle that you want to add form a SABC.
 
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