[Adopted 11-10-1969 by Ord. No. 7-1969]
There is hereby adopted by the Council of the Borough of Towanda
for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing the installation,
construction and inspection of electrical-wiring systems equipment
and other facilities utilizing electrical energy for light, heat and
power in or on any building, structure or premises in the Borough
of Towanda, and of promoting the public welfare and safety, that certain
code known as the National Electrical Code, as published by the National
Fire Protection Association, 2008 Edition, and the whole thereof,
save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified
or amended, and of which not less than three copies have been and
now are filed in the office of the Secretary of the Borough of Towanda,
Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and the same are hereby adopted and
incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from and
after the date of the passage and publication of this article the
provisions thereof shall be controlling in the corporate limits of
the Borough of Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and shall be
called and known as the "Towanda Borough Electrical Code."
A.
"Electrical wiring system" shall mean and include all electrical
apparatus, electrical wiring, electrical fixtures and electrical supplies
used as a part of any installation for the transmission or utilization
of electrical energy, including, but not limited to, the electrical
wiring and apparatus used in connection with and conjunctive to heating,
plumbing, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and water-heating
system; provided, however, said term shall not include lamps and portable
electrical appliances separate from permanently fixed plug-in receptacles.
B.
This article shall not apply to the installation of facilities owned
and employed by an electric or communication utility in the exercise
of its function to serve the general consumer public as a utility,
and located outdoors or indoors, in buildings or on premises used
exclusively for providing such utility service. This provision shall
not be construed to exempt such utility companies from the requirements
of this code for construction or installations not directly connected
with the utility service to the public.
C.
Wherever in this article the term "Electrical Inspector" shall be
used, such term shall designate the Borough Building Codes Inspector
unless otherwise indicated.
All electrical systems installed, constructed, altered or extended
within or on public or private buildings or other premises including
yards, carnivals, parking lots, trailers and mobile home parks, industrial
substations or any other buildings or land shall, in all respects,
conform to the requirements of the said National Electrical Code.
Only those materials, fittings and devices enumerated in said National
Electrical Code and its corresponding List of Inspected Appliances
of the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., as herein adopted, shall be
used in electrical construction work under this code.
[Amended 12-6-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-7]
Upon the filing of a written application in such form as the
Building Codes Inspector shall require, and upon payment of a fee
established from time to time by resolution of the Council of the
Borough of Towanda, Pennsylvania, a permit shall be issued in duplicate
to the Electrical Contractor or other person making application, and
one copy thereof to be conspicuously posted upon the premises where
the work is being done, until the work done has been inspected and
approved by the Towanda Borough Building Codes Inspector.
A.
Before any electrical contractor or other person doing the electrical
installation or construction work for which he has received a permit
shall complete such work, he shall make application for inspection
on a form to be provided by the Borough of Towanda specifying the
premises wherein the installation or construction is being done, the
extent, specifications and classifications of such work, and pay the
fees published thereon.
B.
The Building Codes Inspector shall, upon receipt of an inspection
application, make or cause to be made inspection of such work and
conduct such tests as may be necessary. If the work is done in accordance
with the requirements of this Electrical Code, the Building Codes
Inspector shall thereupon issue a certificate of approval.
C.
When the electrical installation or construction is not approved
by the Building Codes Inspector, such Inspector shall send a notice
of noncompliance to the applicant and the Borough, and, if required,
to the local electrical utility.
D.
No electrical energy shall be introduced into a building where a
certificate of approval has not been issued by the Borough, excepting
only as much electrical energy as may be necessary for the furtherance
of the construction work, electrical or otherwise, in such building.
The Building Codes Inspector shall enforce the provisions of
this Electrical Code, and shall have the power, when he is notified
by the Middle Department Association of Fire Underwriters' or by other
persons that certain electrical installation or construction is being
done contrary to the requirements of this code, to cause such work
to be stopped and to enforce compliance with the code, and the further
power, in the event of existing electric wiring system if found upon
inspection to be unsafe or defective, to notify and order the owner
of such premises to discontinue use of such system until it has been
corrected, made to conform to the requirements of this Electrical
Code and approved by the Electrical Code Inspector Agency.
[Amended 3-1-1976 by Ord. No. 3-1976[1]]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
violate any provision of this article, or to cause, permit or suffer
any such violation to be committed. Any such person, firm or corporation
shall be deemed guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be sentenced to pay a minimum fine of $25 or a maximum fine
of $1,000 or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 30 days. Each
day's continuance of a violation shall constitute a separate offense.
Each section of this Electrical Code and every part thereof
is hereby declared to be an independent section or part of a section,
and if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Electrical Code shall for any reason be held by any court to be invalid,
it is the intent that the validity of the remaining phrases, clauses,
sentences, subsections of the Electrical Code shall not be affected
thereby.
