New 2008 NEC Code today, anyone?

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NC adopted the 2008 last June with a few things delayed to July and today.

You can see the specifics here

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Around here someday soon, but not today. No one really knows when or if they do they're not saying. :rolleyes:
 
Effective 1/28/09 in TN with a few ammendments including making "additional" AFCI's optional, and excluding the requirement to bore in crawlspaces.
 
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Nice map. I can confirm that WA State is now, as of this morning, officially under the 2008, subject to our own state ammendments. One such ammendment is that the AFCI rule applies only to bedrooms, and that a "bedroom" includes certain connecting rooms (accessible only via the bedroom, has a function that is ancillary to the bedroom).
 
The State of Texas has adopted the 2008 NEC in any un-incoorporated areas, or areas that are not under any presiding jusisdiction as of Sept. 1st 2008. It usually takes a couple years for the major cities to adopt the new Code. In fact some of the cities/towns in Texas still operate under the 2002 NEC, although some of them do have stricter ordinaces in place.
 
While the map is correct that Illinois has local adoption, it seems to indicate that they are all adopting the 2008 code. Very few have adopted the 2008 and some are still working on codes from the 90's.
 
augie47 said:
Effective 1/28/09 in TN with a few ammendments including making "additional" AFCI's optional, and excluding the requirement to bore in crawlspaces.
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That is something I often wondered. I was told by a fellow electrician that if the crawl space was 2' or less in height that we were not required to bore hols for wire. I have always bored holes or found a rat rail to make use of.
 
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