Its not the inspectors making the call, its the local authority. we are not a state wide license. when I was licensed 17 years ago, there was only 4 states that were not state wide. I'm sure your state wide. Every municipality here has there own electrical board, who determines what code cycle they are in, and what parts they are going to adopt for it. Some of the smaller municipality's will just follow bigger municipality's rules. So each one has there own inspectors following there local rules. It has nothing to do with getting a inspector in trouble. Just because a new code cycle comes out, doesn't mean the we have to start applying it. Its has to be adopted by each municipality. so depending where you are working here, you have to know what code there in. It is crazy at times. I currently keep about 4 licenses active each year, yes most larger municipalities have their own license here. we are working on a state wide license, where St. Louis county would be the standard for the whole state. So I hope you understand more what I mean. Its not the inspectors being able to change the code at there will, its the municipality they are employed with. I know someone that works for a contractor across the river in Illinois, they are also not state wide license. When they wire new homes, they will bore 2 inch holes through the basement joist for all their home runs, they put them all in one big hole. If we tried something like that here, they would look at us like we had three heads. Only one romex per hole
