1335.02 ELECTRICAL REGISTRATIONS.

   (a)   Registration.

      (1)   No person or persons shall, without complying with the provisions herein, install wires, conduit apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances in or on any public or private building for lighting or heating by electricity or for the use of electrical power or repair or change any electrical wires or wire in any public or private building; and the Building Superintendent shall condemn and cause immediately to be removed any and all wires which he finds to have been installed in violation of this Code.

      (2)   This Code shall not be so construed as to forbid the attachment, by other than duly registered persons, of ordinary appliances, lamps and apparatus for which circuits and wires were installed and designed.

   (b)   Responsibility. In case of a person, firm or corporation employing a registered electrician, both such person, firm or corporation and the registered electrician shall be responsible for all violations under this Code.

   (c)   Eligibility.

      (1)   An applicant for an electrical registration must have a current license with the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board as a master electrician issued under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4740.

   (d)   Liability Insurance Required. Each applicant for an electrical registration shall provide a certificate indicating that valid liability insurance in solvent insurance companies licensed to do business by the State of Ohio, has been obtained and maintained. Such insurance shall contain standard liability coverage provisions with respect to the business of such person and insuring such person against any claims for bodily injury or property damage arising out of any negligent act of such person or his agents or employees occurring in the course of such business, with minimum limits of liability as follows:

         $250,000/$500,000 bodily injury liability

         $250,000 property damage liability

      (1)   Such insurance policy shall contain a clause that ten days notice of cancellation, or material change in the policy, shall be furnished to the City of Fairfield Building Division, and shall also provide that the City of Fairfield is a named insured along with the contractor applicant, if possible.

      (2)   The requirements set forth shall be mandatory for all new applicants. All holders of registrations issued prior to the enactment of this subsection shall be required to comply within thirty days of official notification of the requirement by the City Building Division.

         (Ord. 46-13. Passed 5-28-13.)