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Sedgwick County adopts electrical-code changes for EV charging banks and multifamily wiring
Summary
The Board approved an amendment to the Unified Building and Trade Code to require emergency disconnects for commercial electric-vehicle charging banks and to relax a longstanding multifamily wiring restriction, adopting the 2023 NEC local amendments with two local changes.
The Sedgwick County Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 5 voted unanimously to adopt a proposed addition and a revision to local amendments of the county’s Unified Building and Trade Code (UBTC).
The changes add a requirement for emergency power-disconnects for commercial electric-vehicle (EV) charging banks and revise an existing amendment on wiring in multifamily buildings so residential units may follow baseline NEC guidance instead of an automatic commercial-wiring requirement above three stories.
Chris Labrum,…
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