The whole company and everything we do is not covered. That is how I
read it.
Not covered:
*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_). *
*From:* Forrest Christian (List Account)
*Sent:* Friday, May 12, 2017 1:42 AM
*To:* af
*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....
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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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