(A) An Electrical Inspection Department is hereby created to regulate the installation of all electrical wiring and apparatus within the town. This Department shall be in charge of the Commissioner of Properties, whose duty it shall be to inspect or have inspected all electrical wiring and apparatus. He or she may employ one or more assistants as deputy inspectors.
(B) All companies, firms, corporations, or individuals who desire to do electrical wiring in or on any building within the town shall make application to the town for license to do such electrical work, which application shall be accompanied by a fee of $25 and by proper showing that applicant holds a corresponding license from the state.
(C) The $25 fee tendered at the time of the application for an electric license shall cover the fee for the remainder of the current year. An annual license fee of $25 shall be payable each year thereafter that it is desired to continue such license in force, provided that cancellation of the holder’s state license shall work an automatic forfeiture of the applicant’s license from the town.
(D) (1) All companies, firms, corporations or individuals shall, before beginning any electrical work or any addition to be made to old wiring, make written application to the Village Clerk and shall pay the Village Clerk the inspection fee required by the following schedule:
(a) For roughing in of concealed wiring or for open wiring, first 5 outlets or fraction thereof, $1; each additional outlet, $.10.
(b) For installing conduit, first 5 outlets or fraction thereof, $1; each additional outlet $.10.
(c) For installing fixtures, fans, arc lamps, drop lights or switches on concealed or conduit wiring for 5 or fraction thereof, $1; each additional fixture, fan, arc lamp, drop lights or switch, $.10.
(d) No charge to be made for switches when located in approved cabinets.
(e) For signs, $1 each.
(f) For motors and generators, 1/4 to 3 H.P., $1 each; over 3 H.P., $2 each.
(g) For addition to old work, for 1 outlet, $.25; for more than 1 and not more than 5, $1. For each outlet in excess of 5, $.10. The term “outlet” in this clause is intended to mean either the outlet, fixture or both, when installed at the same time and only requiring one inspection.
(2) Application shall be filed with the Village Clerk upon blanks furnished by him or her and upon approval of the same by the Commissioner of Properties, shall be issued to the applicant when this section has been complied with.
(E) Where from good and sufficient cause it is necessary to have electricity on any installation before final certificate can be issued, the Village Clerk may issue a temporary permit upon the approval of the Commissioner of Properties, provided that all parts to which current is applied are in safe and satisfactory condition. Provided further, that before the temporary permit is issued, the party receiving same shall pay to the village $1. The permit shall run for 30 days.
(F) It shall be unlawful for all owners, contractors or workmen not qualified for doing all electric wiring, to in any manner interfere with any electric wiring in or on any building in any manner whatsoever. If in any case the wiring is in such a position to interfere with the completion of the building as called for by the plans, the wiring contractor must be notified to have it changed. No wood or metal work is to be placed within 1-inch of any exposed electrical conductor. On inspecting the electric wiring of any building, the inspector shall leave a notice in the form of a tag or label attached to the service. This notice shall clearly state whether the wiring is approved or is to be kept open for corrections and no workman shall lathe, ceil or in any manner conceal any electrical wiring, until they know positively that it ha s been approved. The inspector must in all cases inspect any electric wiring within the corporate limits of the village from the electric wiring contractor, that the work is completed. All steam fitting, furnace work, gas fitting and telephone wiring, which is to be concealed must be placed in before the electric wiring is completed and no wiring shall be considered complete until the above work referred to is in place.
(G) Architects and buildings or owners are required to furnish such plans and specifications for proposed electrical work as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Property before any permit for the same shall be issued.
(H) The Commissioner of Property is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to have general supervision over the placing, stringing or attaching telegraph, telephone, electric light or other wires, and the placing of all poles and appliances so as to prevent fire, accident or injury to persons or property and to cause all such wires and electric lights to be so placed, constructed and guarded as not to cause fire, accident or endanger the life or property of any and all of such lights and such wires or electrical apparatus now existing, as well as those, hereafter constructed and placed, shall be subject to such supervision. Whenever any electrical wiring or other electrical apparatus becomes unsafe or in a defective or insecure condition, the Commissioner of Property shall notify the owner in writing to repair or remove same, and upon the owners failure so to do within 24 hours or within such time as the Commissioner of Property may deem necessary, the Commissioner shall cause service to be discontinued.
(I) All electric service hereafter installed for buildings located within the fire limits of the village shall be in approved steel conduit, equipped at outer end with approved service head or conduit fitting and extending without outlet or junction box, into service cabinet of approved steel construction with underwriters label of approval attached thereto. The cabinet shall be located inside the walls of buildings in the nearest accessible place to the point where the wires enter the building but in no case over 15 feet from the point of entrance. Cabinet shall be so arranged that handle of service switch located therein shall not be over seven feet above a permanent floor. Conduit and cabinet to be securely and permanently bonded and grounded. All electric wiring hereafter installed, including additions, extensions, or changes in existing wiring, used for the transmission of current for light, heat or power, in or an all buildings located within the fire limits shall be installed in approved steel conduit or metal moulding.
(J) Any person, firm or corporation violating or disregarding any of the provisions of this section, or any of the rules or regulations herein contained, shall, upon conviction, if no other penalty is provided herein, be fined in the sum of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.
(K) All electrical construction, all material and all appliances used in connection with electrical work and the operation and arrangement of all electrical apparatus, shall be in conformity with the rules and regulations set down in what is known as the National Electrical Code as issued by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as the same is now established and said rules and regulations are hereby approved.
(Ord. 87, passed 12-5-1916; Am. Ord. 202, passed 6-23-1930; Am. Ord. 349, passed 12-8-1952) Penalty, see § 32.99