Yup, that has been the issue here. It was becoming standard to land the EGC in the meter can. Then the debate got started that you now had a parallel neutral if the nipple through the wall was metal. They did massage the language in Article 250 a little in regard to "service equipment" but we still had some old timers who thought it was wrong. As far as I was concerned, I really didn't care about things that happened on the line side of the MBJ. That was the place where we worried about neutral and ground going off on their own path, never to meet again.
