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Re: Minimum branch ckt requirement
By definition, a sump pump, as well as a pool pump, is an "appliance".
From the NEC.
- Appliance. Utilization equipment, generally other than industrial, that is normally built in standardized sizes or types and is installed or connected as a unit to perform one or more functions such as clothes washing, air conditioning, food mixing, deep frying, and so forth.
From the IRC.
- APPLIANCE. A device or apparatus that is manufactured and designed to utilize energy and for which this code provides specific requirements.
However, it is not a appliance which fits the meaning and intent of the code for allowing the receptacle to not require GFCI protection - as explained in the commentary. The meaning and intent in the code is that the appliance is suitable large enough, and immobile enough, to block the receptacle from any other use, and a sump pump does not fit that intent.
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