NEC Adoption Reference

Standards

The standards, specifications and codes that govern electrical testing, with edition history, status and scope recorded from the publishers.

Edition timelineNFPA 70, National Electrical Code (NEC): 202620242025202620272028NFPA 70, National Electrical Code (NEC)NFPA 70NFPA 70, National Electrical Code (NEC)2026
Edition timeline. Editions recorded for each standard, from the publishers' catalogs. The filled dot marks the edition the publisher lists as current.
Edition timeline: edition years from the publishers' catalogs; editions without a four-digit year are listed but not plotted.
StandardEditionKindCurrentRecord
NFPA 70, National Electrical Code (NEC)2026Editionstd.nfpa-70.edition.2026
  1. NFPA 70, National Electrical Code (NEC)

    NFPA 70 is the designation of National Electrical Code (NEC), which the publisher catalog lists in its 2026 edition. Value: NFPA 70.