Bonding plastic switch boxes

[sparky_magoo]

A building inspector recently issued a correction notice because I hadn't bonded the screws on any of the light switches in the residence I was trying to get a final for. We use plastic switch boxes and plastic switch plates. I have been with this company eight years and we have never bonded the switches. I don't think the switches even had bonding screws on them until a few years ago. Does anyone have thoughts on this. The only exception I could find states that plastic boxes with plastic covers don't have to be bonded. The inspector said this exception doesn't apply. The superintendent now wants me to fall back and bond the switches in the nearly one hundred homes I have completed on this tract.

 

[ryan_618]

Re: Bonding plastic switch boxes

You are wrong. See 404.9 in the 2002 and 380-9 in the 1999.

 

[tom baker]

Re: Bonding plastic switch boxes

Leviton used to make nonmetallic 6-32 screws, that was before the 1999 NEC. Of course this would only work with non metallic plates.