[soundman98]

I brushed over a lot of details, somewhat intentionally, don't need anyone following me online...

Its a gray area that really comes down to the inspectors individual interpretation of code wording. Technically, the location was within line of sight, so it met the bare minimum, but there's a strong argument that could be made that while it's accessible, it's not readily accessible in case of emergency. Which is why I can do it instead of flat out telling him I can't. He originally wanted it on the house another 50' further away obscured in the bushes, which I told him could never happen.

A union inspector would tag it because we're a non-union company. But an easy going inspector would see the interpretation and let it go. It's walking a very thin line that while technically correct, it's not normally a line we would take, because we'd rather plan for the most obtuse inspector and not have to deal with getting our work red-tagged, fixed, and reinspected.

But then jumping between 2 states with drastically different inspection measures(indiana is a singular statewide code with county-wide inspectors, Illinois is individual town/inspector base,and every one of them is differentd), we tend to do stuff a lot more overkill to satisfy some of the more unique inspectors requirements we deal with.