[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, no person shall do
electrical work of any kind, install any wiring or agree to do any
electrical or wire installation either by contract or on a time-and-wage
basis or by employment of some other person who is not a duly licensed
electrician to do the work, or assume to direct or supervise any electrical
or wiring work in the City unless he/she shall then hold any unrevoked
electrician's license issued to him/her by the City, as provided
in this Article. Any electrician who possesses a certificate of competence
issued by this City shall not contract to perform electrical work
in this City unless also currently licensed as an electrician.
B.
In order to become a duly licensed electrician, a person must first
obtain a certificate of competency from the Building Inspector as
a journeyman electrician, unless such person is presently licensed
in good standing with a city with which this City has a reciprocal
licensing agreement.
C.
A person who is not a licensed electrician but who is employed by
an electrician who is licensed, as provided in this Chapter, may do
electrical work for such licensed electrician if such work is done
by him/her under the continuous and immediate supervision of such
licensed electrician. Such employee shall comply at all times with
all provisions of this Article other than the one (1) requiring electrical
workers to have licenses.
D.
An electrician who is a full-time wage earner or salaried employee
of an industrial plant in this City, who does electrical work only
for his/her employer and in his/her electrical work no health hazards
are involved, shall not be required to have an electrician's
license, but he/she shall comply at all times with the provisions
of this Article in all other respects.
E.
The owner of property may himself/herself install wiring to serve
such property, and he/she may repair wiring already serving such property,
if the wiring does not and will not serve a dwelling and if he/she
has obtained the required permit for such work; or if the wiring to
be installed or repaired does or will serve a dwelling, he/she may
do the work himself/herself if all the following facts and conditions
then exist:
1.
The owner is to do all the work himself/herself without the
help of any person other than a duly licensed electrician;
2.
The dwelling is a single-family dwelling;
3.
The owner is not building such dwelling, or having it built,
for sale;
4.
The dwelling is not to be sold for at least one (1) year after
the completion of the electrical work;
5.
The owner has applied for a permit to do such electrical work;
and
6.
The owner, in doing the work, will comply with all applicable
requirements of this Article and, in particular, will duly submit
his/her work for inspection by the City Building Inspector.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
Every person desiring to obtain an electrician's license such
as is required by this Article to engage in electrical work in this
City shall make application to the City according to the following
procedure:
1.
Present to the City Clerk an application, upon a form prescribed
and approved by the City, for an electrician's certificate of
competency or, when applicable, an electrician's license from
another city which has entered into a reciprocal licensing agreement
with this City.
2.
Application for an electrician's certificate of competency
shall be made to the Building Inspector through the office of the
City Clerk. The Commission shall consider the experience, training
and qualifications of the applicant in addition to the written examination
required by this Chapter, and, if satisfactory, the application for
an electrician's certificate shall be approved; provided, that
where the application is made by a firm, partnership, association
or corporation, the issuance of a certificate of competence to the
person actually intending to do the work shall be deemed sufficient
compliance with the requirements of this Chapter.
3.
The examination for a journeyman electrician's certificate
of competency shall include a standard journeyman's written examination.
4.
The examination required under this Chapter shall be held within
thirty (30) days of an applicant's request to the City Clerk
that he/she desires to be examined. If the Building Inspector shall
find an applicant unqualified to obtain a certificate of competency,
he/she shall not be entitled to reapply until the lapse of six (6)
months after the examination.
5.
Upon obtaining the certificate of competency, or its equivalent,
the applicant shall tender to the City Clerk with his/her application,
the license fee which shall apply for the remainder of the calendar
year for which the license is sought.
6.
In conjunction with his/her application, and before the application
shall be acted upon, submit to the City Clerk proof of his/her having
obtained comprehensive general contractor's bodily injury liability
insurance providing for a limit of not less than one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000.00) for all damages arising out of bodily injuries
to or death of one (1) person, and subject to that limit for each
person, a total limit of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00)
for all damages arising out of bodily injuries to or death of two
(2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and comprehensive general
contractor's property damage liability insurance providing for
a limit of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for all
damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property in any
one (1) accident, and subject to that limit per accident, a total
aggregate limit of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) for
all damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property during
the policy period. This insurance must cover below-grade damage and
be in full force during the entire construction process and further
be with a company approved by the City; and such insurance shall cover
the licensee and all employees of the licensee who may perform work
within the City under the provisions of this Article.
7.
The applicant shall file a certificate showing that he/she has
workers' compensation insurance if, under the laws of the State,
he/she is required to carry such insurance.
8.
Failure to comply with any of the requirements of this Section
at any time during the term of the license shall result in immediate
forfeiture of such license.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Upon compliance with the provisions of Section 505.220 by an applicant for an electrician's license, the City Clerk shall issue to such applicant a written license and shall authorize him/her, when the required insurance shall have been obtained, to do electrical work within the City.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Each electrician's license required by this Article shall expire with the ending of the calendar year in which it shall have been issued, except if a person holding an unexpired and unrevoked electrician's license issued by the City Clerk should apply, before the end of such year and in the manner required by Section 505.220 for an electrician's license for the following year, the City Clerk shall issue such license and show thereon that it is for such following year. No electrician's license shall be issued except upon the applicant's complying with the requirements of Section 505.220 regardless of when the application therefor shall be made.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Every person who is or who shall be doing electrical work in this City and who is required by this Article to have an electrician's license issued by the City Clerk shall pay to the City an annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). Such license fee shall be paid on or before the first day of January or in accordance with Section 605.050 of this Code.
Electricians working without a required license shall pay a
late fee in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to the
annual license fee; provided, however, the late fee shall not be imposed
if the required license is obtained before 12:00 Noon on the next
business day after notification by the City of the need to obtain
the license.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Payment of the electrician's license fee assessed by this
Article shall not relieve any merchant electrician from the payment
of any license fees assessed by this Code or any other ordinance of
this City against merchants. The term "merchant electrician" means
a person who is or has been an electrician and who, in addition to
doing electrical work, sells fixtures, appliances or merchandise of
any kind.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
No person to whom an electrician's license has been issued
for the City shall cause or permit the certificate to be used in any
manner by another person, and no other person except the person to
whom the license has been issued shall use the license in any manner.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
In the event that any holder of an electrician's license shall
violate any of the terms or provisions of this Article, his/her certificate
may be suspended or revoked by the Building Inspector after notice
to the holder of such electrician's license that the Building
Inspector has suspended or revoked the same. Such notice shall be
in writing. There shall be sufficient service thereof if it shall
be deposited in the United States mail, directed to the last known
address of the holder of the license required by this Chapter.
B.
The holder of an electrician's license which has been suspended
or revoked by the preceding Section shall be entitled to appeal to
the Board of Aldermen from the ruling of the Building Inspector, which
appeal will be informally taken, but in any case must be taken within
ten (10) days after such suspension or revocation of such certificate
by the Board. The Board of Aldermen shall provide full opportunity
for the person whose certificate has been suspended or revoked to
appear before it and show cause why his/her certificate should not
be suspended or revoked.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
An electrician's license shall be issued for a period of
one (1) year and will not be subject to renewal if he/she shall have
failed to engage in his/her trade for more than one (1) year after
the issuance of the license. In the event a license is allowed to
expire, or is revoked as herein provided, the holder of such license
shall be considered a new applicant in all respects and as such shall
be required to obtain a new certificate of competency from the Building
Inspector.
