Skip Nav Bill’s Quality Electric, LLC shares some updates to the electrical code that will affect you as a homeowner when you need repairs to your outlets. These code changes are for your electrical safety from the National Electrical Code which will help toward prevention of fires. Stay Electrically Safe as a homeowner! Special Thanks to StarTribune.com, to Reuben Saltzman and to Doug Olson of Richfield Home Depot Pro Desk for the article, New Electrical Safety Requirements: AFCI Protection for Replacement Outlets. 