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RESOLUTION NO. 75.-40 PAGE TWO 4. A~endment to Section 210-19(c): Many appliances now take a full 1650 watts in use - with larger ones coming out more and more frequently. A 20 amp receptacle circuit to- day barely provides adequate, reliable service and safety to the user. This has been a standard here and elsewhere for over 30 years. A 15 amp circuit could not handle electric plug-in fireplaces, large televisions, window air conditioners, ironers and numerous other cord-connected appliances. 5. Amendment to Section 210-25(b): The word "attached" has been deleted and the word "carports" has been added in order to provide the same degree of convenience and safety to detached garages and carports as the Code requires for attached garages. 6. Amendment to Section 210-26(a): The word "carports" has been added in order to provide lighting for safe use in that location also. 7. Amendment to Article 215: Since the greatest fault current will occur either in the service conduit, service section, feeder conduit and sub-panels, it is felt that these major parts should be enclosed to prevent fire being immediately transferred to the structure. At present, only the feeder run is allowed to be installed out of a raceway or unprotected. 8. Amendment to Section 220-3: This important amend- ment provides reliability and safety in electrical systems. It also assures that at least two circuits will be in every habitable room. Nuisance blinking and dimming of lights due to use of appliances is prevented. This amendment provides reasonable assurance that new portable appliances will operate properly and safely when connected, and that a fault in an appliance will not interrupt another circuit, possibly causing a hazard. 9. Amendment to Section 230-43: Utility company con- ductors can deliver tremendous amounts of current when faulted due to mechanical injury, etc. This current is immediately trans- ferred to the structure, causing fire or explosion. This amend- ment would provide for reasonable protection of the structure and would contain most such faults within the raceway. 10. Amendment to Section 230-71: In the absence of this amendment the Code would allow up to six main disconnects for any one occupancy or service, thus allowing connect±on of additional circuits to a service without any protection to panel buses from overloading, with the inevitable fire. A single main disconnect, as required by this amendment, provides the necessary safety to the electrical system~ and in addition allows fast disconnection in time of emergency. 11. Amendment to Section 250~831 The reason for this amendment is that alternate electrodes to tko~e 5asically provided for in the National Electric Code do not provide ade~ quate grounding means in the soil condition~ that ~e e~perienee in Orange County. The ufer ground or the concrete cased eiec~ trode has gained wide acceptance by the industry and it is felt that this is a more preferable way to provide grounding electrode than any others provided for in the Code, especially with the advent of plastic water services. 12. Amendment to Section 250~1151 The connection of the electrical service to the grounding electrode of the struc- ture, is one of the most i~portant safety terminations in the '