Joe,
I am not defending the practice, I am only saying that the current cosde wording does not support a "red tag" for the installation. There is a big difference between how I would like to see the installation made and the code minimum requirements. The CMP made a mistake in this section in the '90 code when the word "all" was left out.
Here is a very devisive issue - if several EGCs enter a distribution panel [or service panel], can you connect two or more of them together and pigtail a properly sized conductor to the EGC terminal bus? (e.g. 3 #12s enter the panel, you connect them together and run a #12 pigtail to the terminal).
The above quote is the orginal question in this thread. All I am saying is if the installer brings in #12 EGCs and pigtails them to a single EGC and lands that EGC on the terminal bar, there is no code violation as long as the splicing device is installed per its listing as to the number of conductors. Should each EGC be directly connected to the equipment grounding bar? Of course they should be. Is there a code section that forces the installer to do that? I don't think that in the current code there is.
Don
