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Sump Pump and NEC Code

A safety manager for a telecom company is wondering if there is a NEC code that states a home's sump pump must be plugged into a single outlet receptacle. Some installers are plugging equipment into duplex outlets and wondering if this is OK.

It's fine depending on where the sump-pump is located, and what year NEC you are going by.

There are no NEC requirements for a dwelling unit sump pump receptacle.

210.8 (A) will likely come into play.

Every cord-and-plug sump worked with had two plugs, but one had a receptacle on the back of it for the other to plug into; a duplex is used, putting one in each so the in-use cover will close.

The pump would run continuously.

The switch is not connected to neutral or ground, it only breaks the hot.

The switch is located inside of the molded cord cap, the hot does not connect to the ground or neutral.

Some equipment is located where?

If this is a Verizon Fios issue - the installers are doing exactly what the Bell Telephone/ New York Telephone/ SNET telephone techs used to do when they needed a power source for their equipment - grabbed it from the closest power source available that they could plug into.