406.4(D)(4) Replacements.

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Section/Paragraph: 406.4(D)(4)

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406.4(D) General Installation Requirements. Replacements.
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(4) Arc-Fault Circuit-Interrupter Protection. Where a receptacle outlet is supplied by a branch circuit that requires arc-fault circuit-interrupter protection as specified elsewhere in this Code, a replacement receptacle at this outlet shall be one of the following:
(1) A listed outlet branch-circuit type arc-fault circuit-interrupter receptacle
(2) A receptacle protected by a listed outlet branch-circuit type arc-fault circuit-interrupter type receptacle
(3) A receptacle protected by a listed combination type arc-fault circuit-interrupter type circuit breaker
This requirement becomes effective January 1, 2014. The exception to 210.12(B) does not apply to replacement under 406.4(D)(4).

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The effective-date sentence is no longer needed.

Some persons have suggested that if you are replacing a receptacle under 406.4(D)(4) you can evade the requirement for AFCI protection for the replacement receptacle by merely extending the wiring to the receptacle by splicing additional conductor(s). This sort of code lawyering flies in the face of 90.1(A).

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This sort of code lawyering flies in the face of 90.1(A).

The IAEI representative to CMP 2, Mark Hilbert, has written in the support of 2014 NEC 210.12(B) Exception in the ROP and published in the Analysis of Changes NEC - 2014 the very opinion you are calling "code lawyering".

 

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The IAEI representative to CMP 2, Mark Hilbert, has written in the support of 2014 NEC 210.12(B) Exception in the ROP and published in the Analysis of Changes NEC - 2014 the very opinion you are calling "code lawyering".

I know that.