The equipment associated with pools and similar installations is generally required to be connected to an insulated copper equipment grounding conductor.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only for Certain Pools
• D. Not Specified

Answer: (A)

Grounding and bonding are about keeping metal parts at the same electrical potential and giving fault current a low-impedance path back to the source. For pools and similar installations, the equipment associated with them must be connected to an equipment grounding conductor that is copper and insulated. This ensures that any fault current has a reliable path to trip the overcurrent device and reduces the risk of electric shock in a wet environment by keeping exposed metal parts at near-earth potential. The requirement applies broadly to pool-related equipment, not just to some pools, and the code specifies an insulated copper equipment grounding conductor as the grounding path. So the statement is true.