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• • <br />(b) New residences of one thousand and fifty (1050) or more square feet <br />of living area (excluding attached garages), shall have service <br />entrance capacity of not less than three (3) #2 copper and branch <br />circuit facilities of not less than ten (10) overcurrent devices, two (2) <br />of which must be left unused as spares. <br />(c) All underground services shall be installed in Schedule 40 conduit. <br />5.04 Window Air Conditioners and Space Heaters. Branch circuit wiring <br />for window air conditioning units or resistance type space heaters shall not be <br />smaller than #12 AWG copper wire or its equivalent and not more than one (1) air <br />conditioning unit or air conditioning receptacle shall be installed on any one (1) <br />single or multi-wire branch circuit. <br />5.05 Wiring within Buildings. Non-metallic sheathed cable shall be used <br />only for residential work, and apartment houses. Conductors in or on all the and <br />masonry walls of such buildings shall be encased in rigid conduit or electrical <br />metallic tubing. Minimum size non-metallic sheathed cable shall be limited to #12 <br />AWG except #14 AWG may be used for switch legs when the load is less than five <br />hundred (500) watts. <br />Flexible metallic cable shall not be used underground or embedded in <br />concrete. <br />5.06 Ground Contact. Electrical Metallic Tubing, Intermediate Metallic <br />Tubing, and Sheet Metal Boxes shall not be used in contact with earth. <br />VI. INSTALLATION <br />6.01 Meter Cabinets. <br />(a) The meter cabinets and electrical metering equipment through which <br />service is rendered by the electric public service company to domestic <br />establishments and buildings combining domestic establishments with <br />commercial or industrial usage, shall be installed where readily <br />accessible on the exterior of the building. Meter cabinets or meter <br />sockets shall be su lie by the electric public service company and <br />installed by the master electrician performing the work, and meter <br />cabinets to be located so the center of the opening for the meter dial <br />shall be not less than five feet (5') nor more than six feet (6') above <br />mean ground level, and to be readily accessible to the electric public <br />service company to service. On apartment buildings, where space <br />limitations will not permit placing all meters at the <br />22 CURRENT <br />