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Sedgwick County amends building code to require emergency disconnects for large EV charging banks and eases some multifamily wiring rules
Summary
County commissioners adopted an addition to the Unified Building and Trade Code that requires emergency power disconnects for commercial EV charging banks and relaxes a long-standing multifamily wiring restriction to align with NEC baseline guidance; no retroactive requirement for existing chargers was applied.
The Sedgwick County Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 5 approved an amendment to the Unified Building and Trade Code (UBTC) to add an emergency-disconnect requirement for commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging banks and to revise a long-standing amendment on multifamily wiring requirements.
Chris Labrum of the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department (MABCD) told commissioners the proposed language would require each bank of commercial EV chargers to have a power disconnect located no closer than 20 feet and no more than 100 feet from the bank, allowing emergency shutdown…
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