It is not illegal in Minnesota to DIY wire in most circumstances - in the home. If an licensed electrician comes in to do the wiring it must be inspected even if he's doing the work as a side job. Any wiring done by the home owner does not have to be. Of course if it is deemed that the wiring you did as a home owner is the cause of an electrical fire, you insurance of course does not have to pay as long as they can prove that the faulty wiring was the fault of the home owner. The burden of proof would be on them. There are of course exceptions to every rule. I personally replaced every outlet, phone jack, cable jack, and switch in our old house, but I have worked as an appretice electrician (under my father-in-law) and as an electronics technician in the Army. Laws can vary greatly from state to state. Currently in our town, there is no building inspector. Our pharmacy remodel doesn't require inspection unless structural changes are made and it's in the city limits. Yet in our old town I had to pull a building permit ($75.00) to re-roof the house and the inspector told me he drove by the house and "everything looked good". He didn't even stop. It's a crap shoot in the US.
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