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Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Grandfathering
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>
> > > Gord-
> > > What's the grandfather clause?
>
>
> rob replied
> > A Grandfather Clause, or Grandfathering, is the policy of ignoring or
> > allowing the state of older facilities when newer standards are being
> > applied elsewhere and otherwise.
> > As an example, Gov Bush Grandfathered all the older more polluting
power
> > generating plants in Texas, rather than force the utilities to bring
them
> up
> > to the new code. Money Talks!!!
>
> Grandfathering applies to any range of new laws/policies/etc, it means
that
> whatever new standard is being applied is not applied to those already
> effected. Occurs as standards change in schooling, nursing, as other
> examples. Just today I heard another use of the phrase- that after the
civil
> war that phrase was used to restrict descendents of slaves from voting if
> their grandfathers had been slaves.
>
Grandfathering occurs with regularity in my business. I often run into
buildings that are wired according to 50 year old codes.
xponent
rob
