Was this ever legal

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nickelec

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I'm only 34 here I've seen it throughout my time working in Manhattan on a lot of high-rise buildings where they use the panels as a feed through for the floor above or below is it still legal today to do so if not can somebody tell me when it was changed

Basically I have a home inspector telling the customer they need to correct it I don't disagree with him they should definitely replace it because it looks ancient and destroyed anyway but if they don't have to legally they're not going to
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Only thing I can say is that the panel appears to be a riser panel by the way the breaker buss is offset from center, so that seems OK. What may not be compliant is the fact that the tap conductors are not landed on a main breaker sized to protect them from overload as evident in the picture has already happened. I could be wrong since the tap conductors are that short at any rate the calculated load may be to much for them though
 
Right the panel is pretty much just being used as a feed through box besides the neutral

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The only thing I see becides the toasted lug, is the bottom right breaker is double tapped and it looks like the top left twin breaker has a MWBC. I'd ask for the inspector to cite the specific code section thats in question.
 
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