(A) License required. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the installation, repair, or alteration of electrical equipment within the area of the city zoning jurisdiction without having secured from the State Board of Electrical Examiners a license of the class or type which by the laws of the state is required to be held by the person engaged in such work. A true copy of the license shall be filed in the office of the Electrical Inspector before any work for which the license is required shall commence; provided, a license issued in respect of a calendar year will meet the requirements of this section until the next following January 31. This section shall not apply to:
(1) An apprentice electrician working under the direct supervision of a licensed master electrician or licensed journeyman electrician;
(2) Employees of public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, electric membership or cooperative associations, public utility corporations, railroads, petroleum companies, petrochemical companies, pipeline companies, telephone or telegraph systems, or employees of affiliated companies performing manufacturing installation, and repair work for such employer, while acting within the scope of their employment;
(3) The installation, maintenance, repair, or alteration of vertical transportation or passenger conveyors, elevators, or appurtenances thereto;
(4) The engaging of any electrical appliance where approved electrical outlets are already installed;
(5) An employee, working for a single employer as part of such employer’s full-time staff and not holding himself or herself out to the public for hire, while acting within the scope of his or her employment; or
(6) An owner of property performing work on such property or farm property which he or she owns, excluding commercial, industrial, or public use buildings.
(B) Supervision. If an electrical contractor employs men or women to make an electrical installation, all work shall be done under the direct supervision of a licensed master electrician or a licensed journeyman electrician.
(C) Contractor; bond. No parson shall engage in the business of installation, repair, or alteration of electrical equipment for which a construction permit is required in this chapter until such person shall have filed with the City Clerk a bond with two or more sureties, or a bond of surety company to be approved by the City Clerk, the penal sum of $2,000 conditioned that the principal will indemnify and keep harmless the city in case of accident or damage arising from the negligence of unskillfulness in doing or protecting such work, or from an unfinished or inadequate work, that the principal will restore the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, and pavements over all work done, and fill all excavations made by the principal so as to leave all streets, sidewalks, and pavements in as good condition as when the work began, and will maintain the same to the satisfaction of the City Engineer for a period of six months thereafter, and that he or she will pay all fines that may be imposed upon him or her for the violation of any rules or regulations adopted by the Council or the Electrical Inspector and in force during his or her license. The obligee of the bond shall be the city and action may be maintained thereon by any injured by the breach of any of these conditions.
(Prior Code, § 150.092) Penalty, see § 150.999