Looks like all installers will have to be licensed Electricians
for everything and anything that connects to a power source????
Am I reading wrong?
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.
--
Mitch Koep
A Better Wireless
218-851-8689 cell
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