Not familiar with the expression: There oughta be a law against that!
So we have.. but blame those ****ing unions, associations, political party,
on'n on blah-blah.

Regardless of who you want to hold responsible, public safety (not
handholding) is an essential part of most populated areas.
An unqualified public servant isn't the best judge of what's safe.. he/she
doesn't have to sleep and live in the places they might inspect.

A doofus living in a multi-unit or single-family residence structure decides
he's qualified to install something (electrical or gas) because he watched a
TV show about it while he was stuffing his face, yelling at the kids/wife
and having a few beers.
A professional installer or inspector may save the lives of the family, or
families in nearby residences.

AFAIC, there are way too many TV shows that claim: You can do this.. just
watch.

Generally, electrical circuit fires aren't accidents. Faulty wiring is
probably the most common so-called official determination. Bull****. The
wire alone wasn't faulty in the vast majority of instances.

Faulty installation practices, usually executed by someone that was
completely incapable or just unwilling to do the job correctly is most
likely the factual reason for most electrical residential fires (excluding
actual cooking accidents or just negligence issues like using
improper/antique extension cords/faulty electrical devices).

I'm aware that some professional contractors perform faulty installations,
too.

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"Ecnerwal" wrote in message
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And who do you suppose got that into your local laws? Those darlings of
the tea party/republicans/right, the licensed contractors. "Independent
businessmen" who love to stomp out (via government regulation, which
they absolutely love when it's doing this) anything that gets in the way
of their personal gravy train, to "save you from yourself."

Anyway, the correct response to overbearing idiocy is to get the laws
changed, or leave for somewhere with better laws (and keep the other
idiots that move there from changing the laws for the worse.)

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