(A) All wiring on or in permanent buildings or structures located within the primary fire district shall utilize approved raceways or metal-jacketed cables such as MI or type MC metal clad (type A.C. not allowed) as permitted by the National Electrical Code.*
(B) All permanent buildings, wherever situated, which are required to have an emergency system power source by the State Building Code shall have the service entrance conductors enclosed in approved raceway. In addition to the above, all portions of the required emergency lighting system for the entire building shall be wired in metal raceway, non-metallic raceways encased in not less than two inches of concrete, mineral-insulated metal- sheathed cable, or type MC cable as permitted by the State Electrical Code. The total area of any specific place of assembly shall include the area of balconies and the area of connecting rooms with movable partitions.*
(C) Each individual gasoline pump, dispenser, lighting standard, or other electrical device located where gasoline or other volatile flammable liquids or liquefied flammable gases are transferred to the fuel tank of any motor vehicle shall be supplied through an individual rigid metal conduit. The above is not intended to prohibit the consolidation within an approved junction box flush with the dispensing island surface.
(D) Service equipment shall not be located in any attic, clothes closet, kitchen storage cabinet, bathroom, toilet room, or coal or truck bin.
(E) All panel boards which have spare pole spaces or spare over-current devices and are set flush in masonry or finished walls shall be provided with at least one one-inch approved raceway or other equivalent provision for future extension. Such raceways, when required, shall be installed to the basement, crawl space, accessible ceiling space or attic, or to a junction box in the ceiling or side wall at the ceiling line.
(Ord. 78-79-3, passed 11-13-78)
*Editorial Note:
Exceptions to divisions (A) and (B): Sound equipment, communication circuits, class 2 and class 3 remote control and signal circuits, and fire protection signalling circuits as permitted in the National Electric Code.