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Originally Posted by J-Mech
Illinois doesn't have anything in place that keeps anyone from doing anything electrical. You can wire your own house with no permit or license. You can wire your neighbors house. But the city or municipality or even county may have rules, or required inspections. Obviously, when you sell, the buyer generally has the house inspected. While there is nothing to prevent you from doing your own work, there are "codes". If it's not right, you have to pay to fix it, but they can't fine you. I know it doesn't sound like it makes a lot of sense, but basically nothing in the second worst state does.
In the oilfield here, all the wells are powered on buried electric, direct burial cable. Miles of wire in the ground out there. Lots of farms bury lines to the sheds, but always in conduit. Direct burial is cheaper, but like Lance said, on a home lot, conduit is a lot safer. More apt to dig a hole in your lot and forget where that wire is. Don't want to hit it. Out in the oilfield, it's buried very deep because most oil wells are in farm ground. They do have a lot of blo outs due to lightening. I wouldn't do direct burial on a homestead.
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Think you are confused by the way they word the electric codes on state level , Mo. Is worded the same as Il.
But you need an electrician to hook up power to a box , run lug lines , even hook up an outlet , or ceiling fan, light
You can run lines to have it ready to do ...legally.