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<br />e <br /> <br />e' <br /> <br />~ 82-340 <br /> <br />LA PORTE CODE <br /> <br />Sec. 82-340. Residential capacity and branch circuits. <br /> <br />(a) New residences of less than 1,050 square feet living area, excluding attached garages, <br />shall have service entrance capacity of not less than three no, 3 copper and branch circuit <br />facilities of not less than seven overcurrent devices, one of which must be left unused as a <br />spare. <br /> <br />(b) New residences of 1,050 or more square feet ofliving area, excluding attached garages, <br />shall have service entrance capacity of not less than three no, 2 copper and branch circuit <br />facilities of not less than ten overcurrent devices, two of which must be left unused as spares, <br /> <br />(c) All underground services shall be installed in schedule 40 conduit, <br />(Ord, No, 1637, ~ 1(5.03),3-13-89) <br /> <br />Sec. 82.341. Window air conditioners and space heaters. <br /> <br />Branch circuit wiring for window air conditioning units or resistance type space heaters <br />shall not be smaller than no, 12 AWG copper wire or its equivalent and not more than one air <br />conditioning unit or air conditioning receptacle shall be installed on anyone single or <br />multiwire branch circuit. <br />(Ord. No. 1637, ~ 1(5,04),3-13-89) <br /> <br />Sec. 82.342. Wiring within buildings. <br /> <br />(~) Nonmetallic sheathed cable shall be used only for. residential work and apartm~nt <br />houses. Conductors in or on all tile and masonry walls of such buildings shall be encased in <br />rigid conduit or electrical metallic tubing, Minimum size nonmetallic sheathed cable shall be <br />limited to no. 12 AWG except no, 14AWG may be used for switch legs when the load is fess than <br />500 watts, <br /> <br />(b) Flexible metallic cable shall not be used underground or embedded in concrete. <br />(Ord, No, 1637, ~ 1(5,05), 3-13-89) <br /> <br />Sec. 82.343. Ground contact. <br /> <br />Electrical metallic tubing, intermediate metallic tubing and sheet metal boxes shall not be <br />used in contact with the earth. <br />(Ord. No. 1637, ~ 1(5,06),3-13-89) <br /> <br />Sec. 82-344. Meter cabinets. <br /> <br />(a) The meter cabinets and electrical metering equipment through which service is <br />rendered by the electric public service company to domestic establishments and buildings <br />combining domestic establishments with commercial or industrial usage shall be installed <br />where readily acces.si..ble on the extp.rior of the building. Meter cabinets or meter sockets shall <br />.,- <br /> <br />Supp, No, 1 <br /> <br />CD82:24 <br />