I had to in Richmond, too, but there was no argument. I asked ahead of time, and the inspector said I could use either the living-room receptacle circuit or an SA circuit; I chose the former.
In my case, we discussed it for a few moments, with no luck. The inspectors initials were JT. :grin:,(this was two three ago),,It passed roughin fine, and the final he made me put a receptacle on an island that divided the kitchen from the dining room. I already had one in place for the SABC, he wanted an additional one on the back because it was longer than 6'. The wording is not there to prove him wrong, but I will say that (2) is used for sliding glass panels to be included in the measurement, but not requiring it contain a receptacle, so,,,IMO (3) is the same. If you had a fixed glass panel larger than 6',,,,,would you make me put a receptacle in it??? NO,,,,,so (3) should be applied the same way. But JT does not see it that way