Considering V.A. doesn't have a separate certification for low
voltage, I certainly hope we're excluded. It would be difficult to
get all of our technicians though a 3 year apprenticeship as required
by law for a full certification.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 12:10pm
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] New NEC rule it may hurt WISPs
Ummm. We are exclusively excluded. You even highlighted it.
On May 12, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Mitch <mi...@abetterwireless.com
<mailto:mi...@abetterwireless.com>> wrote:
Looks like all installers will have to be licensed Electricians
for everything and anything that connects to a power source????
Am I reading wrong?
NFPA 70: DOCUMENT SCOPE
90.2 Scope.
(A) Covered. This Code covers the installation and removal of
electrical conductors, equipment, and raceways; signaling and
communications conductors, equipment, and raceways; and optical
fiber cables and raceways for the following:
(1) Public and private premises, including buildings, structures,
mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and floating buildings
(2) Yards, lots, parking lots, carnivals, and industrial substations
(3) Installations of conductors and equipment that connect to the
supply of electricity
(4) Installations used by the electric utility, such as office
buildings, warehouses, garages, machine shops, and recreational
buildings, that are not an integral part of a generating plant,
substation, or control center
*(B) Not Covered. This Code does not cover the following:*
(1) Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating
buildings, railway rolling stock, aircraft, or automotive
vehicles other than mobile homes and recreational vehicles
Informational Note: Although the scope of this Code indicates
that the Code does not cover installations in ships, portions of
this Code are incorporated by reference into Title 46, Code of
Federal Regulations, Parts 110–113.
(2) Installations underground in mines and self-propelled mobile
surface mining machinery and its attendant electrical trailing cable
(3) Installations of railways for generation, transformation,
transmission, energy storage, or distribution of power used
exclusively for operation of rolling stock or installations used
exclusively for signaling and communications purposes
*(4) Installations of communications equipment under the
exclusive control of communications utilities located outdoors or
in building spaces used exclusively for such installations*
(5) Installations under the exclusive control of an electric
utility where such installations
a. Consist of service drops or service laterals, and associated
metering, or
b. Are on property owned or leased by the electric utility for
the purpose of communications, metering, generation, control,
transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of
electric energy, or
c. Are located in legally established easements or rights-of-way, or
d. Are located by other written agreements either designated by
or recognized by public service commissions, utility commissions,
or other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for such
installations. These written agreements shall be limited to
installations for the purpose of communications, metering,
generation, control, transformation, transmission, energy
storage, or distribution of electric energy where legally
established easements or rights-of-way cannot be obtained. These
installations shall be limited to federal lands, Native American
reservations through the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau
of Indian Affairs, military bases, lands controlled by port
authorities and state agencies and departments, and lands owned
by railroads.
*Informational Note to (4) and (5): Examples of utilities may
include those entities that are typically designated or
recognized by governmental law or regulation by public
service/utility commissions and that install, operate, and
maintain electric supply (such as generation, transmission, or
distribution systems) or communications systems (such as
telephone, CATV,*
*Internet, satellite, or data services). Utilities may be subject
to compliance with codes and standards covering their regulated
activities as adopted under governmental law or regulation.*
Additional information can be found through consultation with the
appropriate governmental bodies, such as state regulatory
commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the
Federal Communications Commission.
(C) Special Permission. The authority having jurisdiction for
enforcing this Code may grant exception for the installation of
conductors and equipment that are not under the exclusive control
of the electric utilities and are used to connect the electric
utility supply system to the service conductors of the premises
served, provided such installations are outside a building or
structure, or terminate inside at a readily accessible location
nearest the point of entrance of the service conductors.
-- Mitch Koep A Better Wireless 218-851-8689 cell
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