We are adding essential circuits and panelboards to a facility that previously had none. We are installing the essential circuit panelboards in a different part of the building than the normal (existing) branch circuit panels are located. The normal branch circuit panels supply lighting and receptacles in the same rooms that our newly installed essential circuits are in. I do not see any exceptions to 517.14, and unless I am missing something it looks like we will be required to comply. I was trying to find a workaround as it is not going to be easy to get a bonding conductor to those remote panels.
