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Joined: Jul 2004
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"If you still have your Christmas lights up ... You might be a redneck"
Greg Fretwell
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If you use Christmas lights for mood lighting in your bedroom, you might be a redneck.
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Anybody know of any areas/locales that require Christmas lighting to be removed??
I think it's a Zoning type issue, and not within the Building/Construction office domain.
How about within any of the 'gated communities' or from the dreaded Home Owners Associations??
Or, are the 'rednecks' just OK?
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Hey, what's the accepted removal date....? Sometimes I have been a bit slow on that... 
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Our town AHJ calls them 'temporary' and enforces a 90-day limit on temporary wiring.
If they're still up when people are getting ready for baseball season I can see their point.
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I have always thought of Christmas as the time when the NEC goes on vacation.
People who will make their own baby food to avoid preservatives, scour the reviews for the safest car seats and make sure their kid wears a helmet and pads on a bike will string Asian sourced, unlisted lights in a dead pine tree, right in the living room under their kid's bedroom and leave them on all night.
Greg Fretwell
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As Ghost said, some AHJs around here use the 'temp' 90 day thing. Me? I don't have the time to get into this. Personally, I take mine down in mid or late January. If they are frozen in place, they can hang until the spring thaw, but they are not lit.
In some ethnic enclaves, there are many, many versions of 'holiday lights'. These are the ones that create complaint calls, until I explain the unofficial (official) reasoning for 'allowing' this. (Think lawsuits)
John
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Did you ever see them screwed to a (unbonded/grounded) trailer with tek screws? I had a situation where the propane tubing was arcing where it passed thru the trailer skirt. Someone thought the tank was leaking too - yikes!!
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I like the guys tacking wires to the aluminum soffet with a T-50, then griping that the GFCI must be bad and running an orange cord through a window.
Greg Fretwell
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My GF laughed SO HARD when Clark put a staple through the Christmas lights in 'Christmas Vacation'.
I think it harkened back to the day that I did the exact same thing when securing my lights to the window trim one year.
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