Mike, For reasons that will become clear I wish to remain anonymous. I will tell you I'm an electrical contractor in rural Iowa doing about 1M a year. The large percentage of our work is farm,[grain and livestock} and commercial grain handling.We do some industrial and very little residential.Iowa, by area was mostly wide open in regards to permitting/inspections previous the law. There were locals, cities usuallly larger than 5K population and some counties that did some form of code enforcement, but there were many variations and some efforts to protect turf; but no one touched the farms and many of the small towns throughout the state. The law's main enforcement tool is through the utilities; in that if power is shut off to a given service it would require inspection to be reheated.(I think the utilities welcome this, as it gives them the opportunity to clean up a "multitude of sins" Gone would be the double male crowfoot cord to backfeed the welder recp in the toolshed for generating during an icestorm. In response to Wes's post; I find the state's on-line permitting and inspection program very east to use. The responses from the inspectors in getting inspections done has been very good. There is consistentcy from 1 to the next. We have interacted with 5 or 6 different ones. As a whole I would give the program a B Plus. In response to Ken's post, onerous is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. I don't like $3.00 gas either, but fuel and liscense fees are both tax deductible expenses, As for permit costs; we did a project last summer that totaled with dryer, storage and handling equipment around 400k abd the permit fee was $190.00. The big problem with Iowa's statewide program is that is done without the "express written consent" of The Iowa Farm Bureau, with some support to opposition from commodity groups. When they took enforcement to the farms they really kicked a sacred cow. Previous to the law farm and small town work was governed by 1 of 2 methods. Either what the installer could sleep at night with doing or remembering the judge's first question at the trial," was the work done up to code?" Thanks.