Can a dining room receptacles be on the same circuit as living room circuits?
Can the dedicated dishwasher receptacle be located behind the dishwasher?

Thanks for your help

No dining room outlets are on a 20 amp #12 appliance circuit and living rooms are 15 or 20 amp general lighting circuits.

No the outlet and plug is considered as a service disconnect and must be accessible witout needing to move a staionary appliance. It can be under the sink, with the cord and plug passing through a hole in the cabinet.

EDIT:
I just thought of something else, if you have a switch on the counter or under the sink as a disconnect, then the outlet can be behind the dishwasher.

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Originally Posted by tkrussell

No dining room outlets are on a 20 amp #12 appliance circuit and living rooms are 15 or 20 amp general lighting circuits.

No the outlet and plug is considered as a service disconnect and must be accessible witout needing to move a staionary appliance. It can be under the sink, with the cord and plug passing thru a hole in the cabinet.

EDIT:
I just thought of something else, if you have a switch on the counter or under the sink as a disconnect, then the outlet can be behind the dishwasher.

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Does this mean that you can't have the dishwasher hard wired directly to its own breaker?

That's correct,Andrew, the DW , and any appliance needs to have some way of killing power at the unit so that if someone is servicing it, that person has a way of knowing the power is off.

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Originally Posted by tkrussell

Thats correct,Andrew, the DW , and any appliance needs to have some way of killing power at the unit so that if someone is servicing it, that person has a way of knowing the power is off.

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Well I didn't know that. Needless to say my dishwasher is wired directly to the breaker. I didn't install it, but to be honest, if I did, I probobly would have wired it that way anyway.

Id sure be nice if some of these codes found theire way over to the commercial side of town. Just last week I spent all of an hour trying to locate a breaker for a reach in cooler becuaseed the darned thing was hard wired into the box somewhere. It didn't even have a power switch, there was no way to cut if off!

Never did find it, just worked on it hot, which I really don't care for doing.

That is odd, because many a home has been wired with no disconnect at the DW or the water heater, but I find, very seldom,disconnects missing in a commercial installation.

Should you ever run into a newly installed appliance or piece of equipment that does not have a service disconnect switch within sight and no more than 50 foot away, or a lockable device at a panel, then you have the right to not work on it, and demand one be installed.

Even an old installation for that matter. Check with NEC, OSHA, local codes etc.