OK, here's the situation.
Replaced a subpanel at a friends auto shop.
Commercial location, 6 seperate shops (only one is his)
6 meter stack with all the main breakers about 50 ft to the front of the building.
Each shop has it's own 150amp sub.
Well, my friend had his yearly fire inspection, and the fire inspector told the electrical inspector that the shop had a new panel.
Electrical inspector shows up, and wants a permit pulled.
I replaced a 20 space main lug panel with another 20 space main lug panel.
IMO, this falls under repair. According to the Uniform building code repair is defined as replacing a like item with a like item.
Of course i could pull the permits, but after speaking with people during my continued education (uniform building code), i should not have to.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Joe
