True, Richard, and that is precisely what most will opt to do, but if it "failed to operate manually" then the way I read it, it will have to be marked as deficient (or whatever the new term is). Which means every single
inspection report will have that as a repair item even though I would not choose to report it that way... The only thing that manually tripping a valve today proves is, that today you can manually trip the valve. It says nothing about the present or future reliability of the valve. Kind of like the argument about pressing the test button on a smoke detector.