Is there an exception for bringing a drop cable into a structure?
Surely they're not going to require every cable guy to become an
electician....
------ Original Message ------
From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]>
To: "af" <[email protected]>
Sent: 5/12/2017 3:42:47 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] NEC heartburn
Doesn't the note only apply to this exemption:
"(4) Installations of communications equipment under the exclusive
control of communications utilities located outdoors or in building
spaces used exclusively for such installations."
So your CO or NOC would be fine. Probably a phone room as well. Same
with pedestals, outdoor cabinents, and I'd argue the ONT on the outside
of a building.
Hanging an indoor ONT/NID in someone's garage wouldn't be "in building
spaces used exclusively for such installations". Neither would an
installation in an office space, etc....
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
I read it as our entity is not covered. So everything we do.
From:Forrest Christian (List Account)
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 6:07 PM
To:af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] NEC heartburn
The way I read this, an outdoor ONT is exempt. .. an indoor one
would not be?
On May 11, 2017 4:31 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:
NFPA 70: DOCUMENT SCOPE
90.2 Scope.
(A) Covered. This Code covers the installation and removal of
electrical conductors, equipment, and raceways; signaling and
communications conductors, equipment, and raceways; and optical fiber
cables and raceways for the following:
(1) Public and private premises, including buildings, structures,
mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and floating buildings
(2) Yards, lots, parking lots, carnivals, and industrial substations
(3) Installations of conductors and equipment that connect to the
supply of electricity
(4) Installations used by the electric utility, such as office
buildings, warehouses, garages, machine shops, and recreational
buildings, that are not an integral part of a generating plant,
substation, or control center
(B) Not Covered. This Code does not cover the following:
(1) Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating buildings,
railway rolling stock, aircraft, or automotive vehicles other than
mobile homes and recreational vehicles
Informational Note: Although the scope of this Code indicates that
the Code does not cover installations in ships, portions of this Code
are incorporated by reference into Title 46, Code of
Federal Regulations, Parts 110–113.
(2) Installations underground in mines and self-propelled mobile
surface mining machinery and its attendant electrical trailing cable
(3) Installations of railways for generation, transformation,
transmission, energy storage, or distribution of power used
exclusively for operation of rolling stock or installations used
exclusively for signaling and communications purposes
(4) Installations of communications equipment under the exclusive
control of communications utilities located outdoors or in building
spaces used exclusively for such installations
(5) Installations under the exclusive control of an electric utility
where such installations
a. Consist of service drops or service laterals, and associated
metering, or
b. Are on property owned or leased by the electric utility for the
purpose of communications, metering, generation, control,
transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of
electric energy, or
c. Are located in legally established easements or rights-of-way, or
d. Are located by other written agreements either designated by or
recognized by public service commissions, utility commissions, or
other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for such installations.
These written agreements shall be limited to installations for the
purpose of communications, metering, generation, control,
transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of
electric energy where legally established easements or rights-of-way
cannot be obtained. These installations shall be limited to federal
lands, Native American reservations through the U.S. Department of
the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, military bases, lands
controlled by port authorities and state agencies and departments,
and lands owned by railroads.
Informational Note to (4) and (5): Examples of utilities may include
those entities that are typically designated or recognized by
governmental law or regulation by public service/utility commissions
and that install, operate, and maintain electric supply (such as
generation, transmission, or distribution systems) or communications
systems (such as telephone, CATV,
Internet, satellite, or data services). Utilities may be subject to
compliance with codes and standards covering their regulated
activities as adopted under governmental law or regulation.
Additional information can be found through consultation with the
appropriate governmental bodies, such as state regulatory
commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the
Federal Communications Commission.
(C) Special Permission. The authority having jurisdiction for
enforcing this Code may grant exception for the installation of
conductors and equipment that are not under the exclusive control of
the electric utilities and are used to connect the electric utility
supply system to the service conductors of the premises served,
provided such installations are outside a building or structure, or
terminate inside at a readily accessible location nearest the point
of entrance of the service conductors.
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