Nursing Home Resendent Area

[Jodonnell]

I am currently working on a Nursing Home. I have two questions. In the resident rooms we have a generator circuit with between two beds that is a double duplex. Does this receptacle need to be installed in conduit?

The print is telling us to install all electrical in resident rooms per 517 patent care area
I am reading 517.18 (A) exception no. 2, I do not believe that article 517 apply to the rooms at all. If that is the case can Romex be used for the rooms?

 

[Hendrix]

If the print is telling you to follow 517, then I would do it according to the print.hmy:

 

[Ragin Cajun]

2nd that

RC

 

[petersonra]

If the print is telling you to follow 517, then I would do it according to the print.hmy:

Since the exception he refers to is in 517, would he not be following 517 if he applied the exception?

 

[charlie b]

517.18(A) and its exception 2 have to do with how many (minimum of 2) receptacles and the sources (one normal, one emergency) that supply them. The exception does, I believe, remove the requirement of at least one normal and one emergency receptacle from the bedroom of a nursing home. But the requirement that all branch circuits serving patient care areas use metal raceway or metal armored cable does not have a similar exception. SInce the project documents invoke 517, then I think you have to follow 517.13(A). So I would say that romex is not allowed.