SO cord connections

[JCPE]

I'm working on a sports lighting installation. I planned to run so cord inside the pole to a junction box at the cross-arm, where the so cords supplied with the fixtures were to be terminated. The plan reviewer is calling the terminations in the junction box splices in a flexible cord, which is not allowed by 400.13. We're under 2023 NEC. Does anyone have a better interpretation? I can't find anything in the 2017 Handbook, it is the latest I have access to.

 

[kwired]

I would have cited 400.12 and subsections 1 and 2 and possibly 6 before citing 400.13. This is rule that hasn't really changed over several code cycles. Flexible cord simply isn't intended for use as permanent wiring unless specifically allowed in 400.10

400.10(A)(2) does specifically allow wiring of luminaires - but in your case would be from the mentioned junction box to the luminaire. The part run inside the pole is not permitted.