"Walter R." wrote in message
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According to this site, in my 1983 home, the garage outlets and exterior
outlets were required to be on GFCI circuits. Looks to me like a sloppy
electrician who put some of the outlets on the required GFCI breakers and
ignored the rest.

http://www.mikeholt.com/documents/ne...ment_page2.pdf

Is the info at this URL incorrect?

Pesumably Mr. Holt is accurate, but it doesn't much matter.
I wasn't doing electrical back then, so I don't know what code required, but
my house is also 1983 and only had GFCIs in the bathrooms. I would be
willing to bet it met code.

The local electrical code typically refers to a specific version of the NEC,
with some adjustments. The version specified is often not the latest. So,
the fact that the 1981 NEC called for GFCIs in the garage doesn't mean your
local code did. The local code could have referred to an old NEC, or it
could have specifically exempted garages; or the building inspector could
have made it know that he didn't care about garages.

Besides, what does it matter 22 years later? For $9 you can be a sport.