Originally Posted by
Fred Herndon
If I am not mistaken, at the Chapter meeting Tuesday, Ron Chilton (State Electrical Inspector for North Carolina, for the rest of this message board) said switched outlets were excluded from kitchen GFCI requirement.
Fred,
"Practically speaking" he would be correct in that I don't recall ever seeing a receptacle which was to serve the countertop which was also switched, however, ...
"Technically speaking" there is no such exclusion, and, if you did find a switched receptacle which was there to serve the countertop, it too would be required to have GFCI protection.
I would not be surprised to, in maybe 2-3 code cycles (2011, 2014 or 2017) see more an more receptacles covered under required GFCI protection (it has already made a major leap with the 2008 code) and then shortly after that (2020?) maybe going to where *every* circuit in a dwelling unit was GFCI protected ... as well as AFCI protected.
I know that "2020" seems like a long way away, but that is less than 12 years from now.