Editing National Electrical Code (section)

===Public access===
The NEC is available as a bound book containing approximately 1000 pages. It has been available in electronic form since the 1993 edition. Although the code is updated every three years, some jurisdictions do not immediately adopt the new edition.

The NEC is also available as a restricted, digitized ''coding model'' that can be read online free of charge on certain computing platforms that support the restricted viewer software; however this digital version cannot be saved, copied, or printed.

In the [[United States]], [[statutory law]] cannot be copyrighted and is freely accessible and copyable by anyone.<ref>Link to text of the court's decision for 293 F.3d 791, Peter VEECK, doing business as Regional Web, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN BUILDING CODE CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellee., No. 99-40632, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, June 7, 2002 https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/293/293.F3d.791.99-40632.html</ref> When a standards organization develops a new coding model and it is not yet accepted by any jurisdiction as law, it is still the private property of the standards organization and the reader may be restricted from downloading or printing the text for offline viewing. For that privilege, the coding model must still be purchased as either printed media or electronic format (e.g. [[PDF]].) Once the coding model has been accepted as law, it loses copyright protection and may be freely obtained at no cost.