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What is meant by "...no codes, permits, or inspectors." ??

What "area" is this in?

Outside USA?

Different planet?

Does every country in the world (Earth) have a NEC?, just curious.

BP

This mess is in Illinois. Most counties have no codes or inspections. Most of the larger cities and a very few counties do. There is a bill working it's way through the state legislature that would institute statewide licensing and permits. I can't wait. Text of the bill is here:http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09300HB1004sam004&GA=93&SessionId=3&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=1494&DocNum=1004&GAID=3
WireWrestler

In the U.K. we have the "IEE Wiring Regulations."

The name is rather misleading though, for at least as far as domestic wiring is concerned, there has never been any legal obligation to follow them.

I was more or less joking about the 3rd pic. but the double & triple lugging is a constant problem. EC's that do it ? I dont think so.(HVAC Contractors) I dont know about you but my biggest problem as a contractor was getting employees who even cared about the quality of there work!!!


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I almost passed out when I saw this picture:

Courtesy Brian Goodman

A panel doing double duty as a roach/fly zapper?

Neat! Where can I get one of those?

What is that solid #8 ground wire doing in that 200 amp panel with those bugs

What county in IL?

(Just being curious, soming from "Conduit alley" along the Lake Michigan shore...)

We work in Ogle, Lee, Whiteside, Carroll, and Stephenson counties. All of them have no rules. Winnebago and Boone are the only ones where we work that have permits and inspections but anyone can do electrical work.
WireWrestler

Here in Austria we got the TAEV (impossible to translate the full wording, it's like technical conditions for hookup with explanations of the codes, given out by the general association of power companies), it's basically a practice oriented commented version of the laws beneath.