Watthead
Let me offer my congratulations on taking a principled stand and sticking to it.
Some states are now considering instituting a statewide secondary appeals process. The advantage to such a system is that it provides a secondary avenue for resolution but more importantly the state appeals board decisions are precedent that is binding state wide. A local AHJ that is repeatedly overturned on appeal could be in danger of being decertified as a code official where upon he/she would have to be replaced.
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Tom H
