I own a co-op unit in a suburb of New York City. The building is aout 100 years old. I hired an electrician to do some work. After completion, the town inspector looked around and cited a violation that there are not enough outlets around the kitchen counters. This was completely unrelated to the work being done. I said to him that this is the way the building was built and that all the other 100 or so apartments are the same way. He is now threatening to force the whole building to add outlets (about 4 per unit), which will require to replace fuse boxes with circuit breakers, and possibly require a beefed up supply from the local electrical utility - overall several hundred thousands of dollars. This sounds like complete madness to me. Even if the units are not to the current code, isn't there a "grandfather" issue here? Are there legal means to fight this? Has anybody experienced such a situation?
Thanks.
