Bill,
I think that this is a lack of coordination when the sections are changed and new parts added or other parts deleted. In the cases we are looking at the application of the exceptions is very clear in the old codes and becomes ambiguous in the new code after changes not directly related to the exception were made. I agree that it is a very real problem for the use and enforcement of the NEC. These things should be caught by the CMP or if it gets by them, then by the correlating committee. Looks like a good place to start with proposals for the 2005 code.
Don(resqcapt19)
