NEC Article 517

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Would a small chiropractic office with treatment rooms, a small X-ray room, and a darkroom fall under this Article?
 
Re: NEC Article 517

The provisions of this article shall apply to electrical construction and installation criteria in health care facilities that provide services to human beings.
The requirements in Parts II and III not only apply to single-function buildings but are also intended to be individually applied to their respective forms of occupancy within a multifunction building (e.g., a doctor?s examining room located within a limited care facility would be required to meet the provisions of 517.10).
FPN: For information concerning performance, maintenance, and testing criteria, refer to the appropriate health care facilities documents.


you be the judge
 
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If there is not an essential system per part III serving this chiropractic office, there is realy not much needed to comply with part II.

In short, You will only need a metalic raceway that is recognized in 250.118 and an insulated grounding conductor for your branch circuits.

Since there won't be "Patient Bed Locations" you won't even need HG receptacles.

Roger
 
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For Jeff Cook, Ryan, and Steve66- applying that logic article 517 wording could lead to the same requirments bieng necessary for a psyciatrist (sic) office.
 
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and what would be wrong with that? A single standard for all medical buildings, wow what a concept. Now if we could take that to the rest of the buildings we are on a roll.
 
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