Shed - switch receptacle covers

[NEC User]

I'm buying a house. There's a shed in the backyard that has lighting, receptacles inside and outside of the shed, and a light switch. The light switch and receptacles inside of the shed do not contain cover plates. I've been informed that there is no electric power provided to the shed. Should the cover plates be installed now even though I don't intend to provide electric power to the shed?

 

[JDB3]

Would be safer just in-case power was ever on to it.

 

[al hildenbrand]

In the Metro Area I work in, it is occasionally expedient to sell a house and detached garage with the power to the garage removed. This is almost always a situation where the garage was supplied with a branch circuit in the configuration of overhead conductors, but they are so old, as is the wiring inside the garage, that numerous states of hazard are tagged by the real estate housing inspectors.

The detached garage is deemed power-less if the overhead drop branch circuit is taken down and cut off. The abandoned wiring in the detached garage is not readily energizable, and is therefore allowed to remain in situ.

Whether you "should" or "should not" is a function of how hard it is to energize the wiring inside your shed, in my opinion.

 

[ceb58]

No cover. Makes it harder for spiders to live in the box behind the switch.

 

[kwired]

I'm buying a house. There's a shed in the backyard that has lighting, receptacles inside and outside of the shed, and a light switch. The light switch and receptacles inside of the shed do not contain cover plates. I've been informed that there is no electric power provided to the shed. Should the cover plates be installed now even though I don't intend to provide electric power to the shed?

There is no electrical safety issue unless you do put power back in the shed, do whatever you want with them.