I think you had a bad

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I think you had a bad electrician or different code. I had one installed over the jacuzzi in my old house and it passed inspection fine. As long as you put it on a breaker plug or whatever they call those things you are within code. At least in my state it just states within so many feet of water it has to be a breaker plug. It is no different then having the plug below the tub for the jacuzzi or having the plug outside your house.

Anyone local codes may be different, but there areany high end homes here that builders are putting tvs above the jacuzzi and they are also passing code just fine.