Section 408.30808. Scope.

Rule 808. Sections 80.1, 80.1.1, 80.1.2, and 80.1.3 are added to the code to read as follows:

80.1.      Scope. The code regulates the design, installation, maintenance, alteration, and inspection of electrical systems including all wiring, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the utilization of electrical energy, within or on a building, structure, or properties, and including service entrance wiring as defined by the code.

Exception: 1- and 2-family dwellings and multiple single-family dwellings (townhouses) not more than 3 stories high with separate means of egress and their accessory structures shall comply with the Michigan residential code.

80.1.1.        Intent. The purpose of the code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, installation, quality of materials, location, operation, and maintenance or use of electrical wiring and equipment.

80.1.2.    Severability. If a section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of the code is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the code.

80.1.3.        Code conformity required. A person shall not install, alter, maintain, service, or repair, or cause or permit the installation, altering, maintaining, servicing, or repairing of electrical equipment in or on any building, structure, or part thereof, or on any premises, if by the person's action the work does not conform to the provisions of the code.

History: 2004 AACS; 2007 AACS; 2013 AACS.