1503.11 ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT SALES.

   (a)   No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale within the city any electrical materials, equipment, fixtures, appliances or devices which do not bear an Underwriter's Laboratories or Factory Mutual seal of approval or which has been declared by the Fire Chief or an inspector for the Bureau of Fire Prevention to be unsafe for use because of design, construction, wiring or assembly.

   (b)   The Fire Chief or an inspector for the Bureau of Fire Prevention is hereby authorized to inspect any and all electrical materials, equipment, fixtures, appliances or devices sold, offered or exposed for sale within this city and to determine whether the same are safe or unsafe for use because of design, construction, wiring or assembly. If he shall find any such material unsafe, he shall give notice of the finding to the person selling or offering or exposing the same for sale and no such person shall violate this section unless such written notice shall have been given to him, to his employer or to the person in charge of the place where the article is sold, offered or exposed for sale. The Fire Chief or his/her designee has the right to consult expert opinions on materials.
(Ord. 2004-206. Passed 12-21-04.)