Electric meter addressing?

[SCBO1]

Wondering how many of you require an address or suite letter on a multi-gang electrical meter cabinet like you would see on an apartment or tenant building, is it required?

 

[cda]

We do, may be by ordinance, trying to find some wording.

 

[SCBO1]

I couldn't find any code for it,

thanks

 

[cda]

Ok this is in ifc

Check your wording to see if it matches


Section 509 Fire Protection and Utility Equipment Identification and Access

509.1.1 Utility identification.​

Where required by the fire code official, gas shutoff valves, electric meters, service switches and other utility equipment shall be clearly and legibly marked to identify the unit or space that it serves. Identification shall be made in an approved manner, readily visible and shall be maintained.

 

[SCBO1]

CDA,
Thanks for finding that, I have requested that multi gang electric meters at tenant remodels that I inspect place a minimum1-inch address or suite letter sticker near the electric disconnect and most have obliged. Had a question come up on a bank of gas meters and could not fine anything. It does say gas shut-off valves and not meters, so a slight code amendment would be needed for the gas meters. That's a good place as any to modify the requirement for gas meters, I think.

 

[fatboy]

Our energy provider, Xcel, requires it, so we put it in ordinance via amendment.

 

[Paul Sweet]

I think that the utility would require it so they could tell whose meter is being read, or whose power they are cutting off.

 

[e hilton]

I think that the utility would require it so they could tell whose meter is being read, or whose power they are cutting off.

Don’t they just pull the meter based on the serial number?