Sifu
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It has been a long time since I looked at any electrical so forgive my ignorance please. On a recent inspection the contractor related a story to me where he was called out to a homeowners house late at night, in a storm to pick her lock for her. It seems she had become so accustomed to using the garage door as her only means of entry she did not have her keys. Apparently the storm tripped the GFCI (or something else I guess) into which her OHD was plugged. This surprised me as I thought garage doors and freezers (dedicated and practicably in-accessible) were exempt from the GFCI provisions, for the reasons like the situation this lady found herself in and/or to prevent thawed food in the event of an unknown trip. I came back to the office and looked it up and sure enough the provision is not in 2008 NEC. It is in the 2005, even had a picture in the 2005 NEC handbook showing both as non-GFCI. So for the experts: is it completely gone and now all receptacles in garage must be GFCI, or is it hidden elsewhere in the code? How about the 2011 NEC, I do not have a copy of that to check it. This is just for my personal knowledge, I do not inspect electrical in this jurisdiction.