Permits for School District

[kwired]

From my experience the facilities follow the code, but no permits are required, and the work is inspected "In House".

So the most qualified person to inspect is likely the guy who did the install in a lot of cases I would guess.
I said most qualified not actually qualified, licensed, etc.

 

[kwired]

It is clearly a double standard. Governments have successfully excluded themselves from standards that they imposed on others.

So, what are you going to do about it !

Almost everything government owned/operated here is inspected same way as if it were non government. If situation like OP's maintenance where you are primarily replacing failed components with like components does not require permits or inspections and you wouldn't necessarily need to be licensed either. New installations or modifications to existing premises wiring would require permit and inspection. Yes small projects can and do slip through. Some do get caught as well so you need to decide if it is worth it to not file if you are thinking about that. Often it happens when one contractor files permit for his work then when inspector comes and sees something unrelated but obviously newer and maybe even with violations, questions do come up.

Federal Government projects - if federally owned property very well might be exempt. I don't know of any federally owned property in my area so it doesn't really come up. There is Federal government offices in the area but all of them are leased so not exempt. No military bases or similar in my immediate area so not sure how those would work. Outside of Offut AFB near Omaha, most military land in this state is State land AFAIK and used by National Guard units, those are not exempt.

 

[tom baker]

It is clearly a double standard. Governments have successfully excluded themselves from standards that they imposed on others.

So, what are you going to do about it !

Federal Govt is under OSHA, under the general duty clause, they adopt the latest version of the NEC. But I have taught classes at Navy, Army and Air Force, typically there are no permits, no inspections and no licensing required. But there are exceptions, one Army base did have inspections and require licensing.

 

[mtnelect]

O.K. - I was bloviating a little bit. We are all safe in our homes from the government !

 

[brantmacga]

Speaking of work on govt buildings, I took these photos a few weeks ago outside of our county office building downtown. They’ve installed facade lighting around the building. Probably 20 of these fixtures wired like this ….

These are 120v PAR lamps connected with 2-wire landscape cable. Plugged into a receptacle timer on the side of the building. The cable routes along the landscaping beds all around the building.


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[mtnelect]

Looks like a residential DIY at a government building with government electricians.
When I go to a public building, I always where a mask. Now, I need to have electrical insulated gloves before touching anything metal !

 

[kwired]

Federal Govt is under OSHA, under the general duty clause, they adopt the latest version of the NEC. But I have taught classes at Navy, Army and Air Force, typically there are no permits, no inspections and no licensing required. But there are exceptions, one Army base did have inspections and require licensing.

Licensing from what entity? The state or other local jurisdiction that the base is located on/near?

 

[steve66]

Speaking of work on govt buildings, I took these photos a few weeks ago outside of our county office building downtown. They’ve installed facade lighting around the building. Probably 20 of these fixtures wired like this ….

These are 120v PAR lamps connected with 2-wire landscape cable. Plugged into a receptacle timer on the side of the building. The cable routes along the landscaping beds all around the building.


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Good Grief.

At first I thought they had to be low voltage. But I believe you when you say they aren't.....