NEC in Puerto Rico

[alberto_zorik]

We manufacture Neon Transformers & Power Supplies. NEC requires most common power supplies to be listed and to provide ground fault protection. Current standard is UL 2161. However, we were approached by a customer in Puerto Rico, who claims that NEC does not apply there.
QUestion is: How could we know if the NEC and which version has been adopted in Puerto Rico?
Could it be that the latest version of the NEc has been adopted and it's just that the AHJ do not enforce it?
Any ideas?

 

[rbalex]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is one of seven jurisdictions that operates under a Federal OSHA "Operational Status Agreement." As such, if an employer/employee relationship can be established with respect to the use of an electrical product, the UL Standard applies under 29CFR1910 Section 399 . See the definition of "Approved."

You may want to follow the other Puerto Rico links supplied on the FedOSHA site to determine the Electrial "Normas" as they apply to general uses and installations of electrial equipment.

Whether the NEC is actually enforced or not is something I can't answer. (BTW, this statement applies throughout the US.)

[Edit Add:] I just found this site. Apparently, Puerto Rico uses the 1999 edition.

[ August 24, 2004, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: rbalex ]

 

[luke warmwater]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

I wonder if it's printed in Spanish.

 

[jimwalker]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

Would help in Florida if NEC was in spanish

 

[a.wayne3@verizon.net]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

If it is we need one would eliminate many tags.Good installers but lacking in code knowledge.Si.

 

[jimwalker]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

We seldom get red tags.Walk our own jobs first then make sure we are there when he arrives.Often get told to fix this or that and he will check on next inspection.Is hard to be on residential jobs but we try

 

[rbalex]

Re: NEC in Puerto Rico

I've run or consulted on about a half-dozen PEMEX projects over the last 10 years. PEMEX is the national oil & gas company in Mexico.

The Mexico Electrical "normas" is a Spanish translation of the NEC. Typically it is one, nearly, but not quite two, cycles behind.

It was usually pretty good, at least from the way my colleagues explained what they thought it meant. But if you thought a Section was vague in English, you should have heard what they thought it meant in Spanish. Grounding was particularly entertaining.