My interpretation is that it needs to be treated or exceptions met. (number 7)
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Thanks. I’m just trying to figure out why no one around here calls this out. I know that it’s splitting hairs but a piece of plywood used to install a panel is neither a furring strip or a framing member so I’m thinking that #7 would not apply.
mine is fastened to a piece of osb that is shot to the poured walls, as is pretty much every panel installed around here in the last twenty years or so…
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You are not wrong. In this case I consider the "why’ furring strips or framing members are not allowed. And IMO, it is because of moisture and termites.
Therefore, code or not, it is good building practice for my part of the country where both moisture and termites in subterranean spaces are a big issue.
The plywood my panel is attached to has spacers installed so there’s about a half gap between it and the foundation wall.
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Mission accomplished! 
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Here’s a couple of pictures how my finished basement is framed out, all framing is installed on the inner side of the originally installed insulation.
This is over a soffit in the wet bar area.
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I’ve been thinking about this so I took a hard look at the finish basement in my own home. It typical of most other finished basements. The bottom plate that is contact with the floor is PT wood. Everything else is standard lumber.
The interesting is that all of the base moulding, door trim moulding, and door frames are standard pine and they all are in direct contact with the floor. Since none of those qualify as a framing member I’m assuming that it is code compliant. In fact I’ve never seen PT finish mouldings or door frames in a finished basement.
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Good point, Robert, but it is typical to have the base trim on top of VCT flooring and casing trim on top of carpet and vct also, but even if the base trim is on the concrete it is open to air dry environment and not quite the same condition as a sole plate that is covered up and cannot air dry.
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not uncommon to leave a small gap betewwn door frames and casings and the concrete slab when finishing basements…flooring often disguised this
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