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All drawings and plans for the construction, erection, addition to, or alterations of any building or other structure, for which a permit is required shall first be presented to the building commissioner for examination and approval as to proper use of building and premises and as to compliance in all other respects with the Chicago Zoning Ordinance and may be presented to the board of health, the department of health, fire department, department of water management, department of streets and sanitation, and any other affected department for submission to the proper official of these departments and bureaus for examination and approval with regard to such provisions of this Code, as are within the duty of such office to enforce, and after the drawings and plans have been examined and passed upon, they shall be returned to the building commissioner where they shall be taken up for examination and approval by the building commissioner. The building commissioner is authorized to establish a system whereby drawings and plans may be reviewed simultaneously by more than one person or department.
In every new building and in every existing building undergoing extensive remodeling where a new electric service or a new electric distribution center is to be installed, ample space shall be provided within the main walls of the building for the electric service equipment, metering equipment, distribution cabinets, cutout cabinets, transformers and other equipment necessary for an electric installation and ample working space around the equipment. This space shall be readily accessible to every tenant of the building who has electric equipment for light, heat or power which is supplied through the above mentioned equipment.
(Prior code § 43-4; Amend Coun. J. 9-13-89, p. 4604; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99026, §§ 1.14, 2.11; Amend Coun. J. 11-13-07, p. 14999, Art. II, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. II, § 6)