I have been in that very situation many times. It depends on the attitude of the AHJ. If it is a large municipality odds are there is no give. In a small town perhaps. As a company we have to follow the straight and narrow and always go "whole hog". Sometimes the customer understands and sometimes not. We don't do much residential work to begin with, especially small retrofits. The residential we do get it is mostly the byproduct of doing a commercial job where you "have to" take care of the house too. Those typically are larger residential with larger budgets. But as you probably know some folks with plenty of bucks are the worst tightwads. It is always an issue to be overcome. The ones who insist on one smoke get the "see ya" registered letter and the panel is deprogrammed to Central and unlocked for any other dealer who wants the business. Let someone else fund the attorney enrichment program. There is a lot of aggressive enforcement here, and that is probably a good thing for the most part. I know of several techs going to court right now (over different issues of "trying to be helpful") who might have seen your logic and considered the single smoke before they got popped, but not now I'm sure. As they say "No good deed goes unpunished".
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