Article 80 Add new article as follows:
Article 80 Administrative Power And Duties: Electrical Regulations Defined
Section 80-1 Suspension Of Permit Privileges: Failure on the part of any electrical contractor to correct any defect, error, or deficiency in any work installed under the authority of a permit issued to him/her by the director of community development within ten (10) calendar days after written notification thereof by the said director or within such further reasonable time as may, upon request, be prescribed, the director of community development shall, without further notice, stop the issuance of permits to such registered electrical contractor until such corrections have been made, inspected, and approved. In addition thereto the penalty provided in this chapter may be enforced.
The director of community development is hereby empowered to suspend the permit privileges of any registered electrical contractor who shall fail to pay any just indebtedness for inspection fees for electrical wires and apparatus as fixed by that part of this chapter dealing therewith, until such registered electrical contractor shall discharge and pay to the village all just indebtedness then due and owing from such electrical contractor.
Section 80-2 Removal Of Abandoned Materials: All abandoned wiring, conductors, conduit systems, raceways, junction boxes, electrical devices, electrical materials and/or equipment, etc. shall be removed prior to a final electrical inspection.
Section 110-14(A) Amend section as follows:
Section 110-14(A) Terminals: No more than one (1) conductor shall be connected and/or installed to a single screw terminal on any electrical device.
Section 210-8(B)(3) Add new section as follows:
Section 210-8(B)(3) Duplex Receptacle Requirements: All receptacles that are installed in locker rooms, or installed in and/or associated with foliage, plants, and the like, shall be ground fault interrupter protected.
Section 210-10(B)(5) Add section as follows:
Section 210-10(B)(5) Receptacles: All duplex receptacles in other than dwelling units shall be a minimum of twenty (20) ampere rated.
Section 210-70(D) Add new section as follows:
Section 210-70(D) Illumination In Basement Areas: A minimum of one (1) switched lighting fixture shall be installed in the immediate area of the top stair tread of all staircases leading to basement areas. A minimum of one (1) switched lighting fixture shall be installed in the area of the lower most stair tread of all staircases that lead to the basement area.
The switch device that is required to control both upper and lower lighting fixtures shall be installed at a readily accessible location at the uppermost tread area of the staircase.
Note: Said lighting fixtures as noted above may be relocated because of the staircase layout where it may be necessary to provide sufficient illumination on the general stair tread areas as deemed necessary by the electrical inspector having jurisdiction.
Panelboards that are installed in basement areas shall have a minimum of one (1) lighting fixture installed within three (3) feet of the panelboard cover.
Section 210-70(E) Add new section as follows:
Section 210-70(E) Three And Four-Way Switch Locations: A three (3) way switch shall be installed at each entrance and/or exit in all hallways for the purpose of controlling the lighting fixtures that are required.
A four (4) way switching arrangement may be required in hallways where the length and/or the construction layout of the walls are installed in a manner where it is deemed necessary by the electrical inspector having jurisdiction to require the four (4) way switching arrangement.
All rooms that have more than one (1) entrance and/or exit to said room(s) (such as kitchens, dining rooms, etc.) shall have the lighting fixtures and/or a wall mounted receptacle that is installed for general lighting purposes be controlled by a three (3) way switching arrangement.
A four (4) way switching arrangement may be required in rooms as noted above where the wall construction of said rooms is installed in a manner where it is deemed necessary by the electrical inspector having jurisdiction to require.
Section 220-40 Add new section as follows:
Section 220-40 General: Ampacity And Computed Loads: In single family attached dwellings the service size shall be a minimum of 100 amps per dwelling unit. In detached single family dwellings the service size shall be a minimum of 200 amps.
Section 230-7 Change section as follows:
Section 230-7 Delete all exceptions.
Section 230-23(B) Add to section as follows:
Section 230-23(B) Minimum Size: The conductors shall not be smaller than number three (3) copper and installed in a minimum of 11/4" rigid heavy wall galvanized steel, IMC, or aluminum heavy wall conduit.
Section 230-31(B) Change section as follows:
Section 230-31(B) Minimum Size: The conductors shall not be smaller than number three (3) copper.
Section 230-42(B) Change section as follows:
Section 230-42(B) Ungrounded Conductors: Reference to ungrounded conductors shall be deleted.
Section 230-42(B) Add new section as follows:
Section 230-42(B) Service Entrance Conductors Single Family Type: All service entrance conductors installed for new single family type construction shall be a minimum AWG wire size of number 3/0 gauge copper conductor.
(a) Regardless of the minimum size of service conductors as required in the above paragraph all service conductors shall be adequate for the connected load.
(b) The required service entrance conductors as noted in paragraph (a) above shall be installed in a minimum of two (2) inch trade size conduit, which shall be rigid heavy wall galvanized steel, IMC, or heavy wall aluminum conduit.
(c) All circuit breakers shall be fully sized in dimensions and for proper insertion into the panelboard, as set forth by the switchgear and panelboard manufacturer and as listed by a recognized testing laboratory.
Substitution of two or more circuit breakers in a space so designed or previously occupied by a lesser number shall not be approved and will not be accepted.
(d) Deterioration of electric service entrance equipment and/or branch circuit panelboards, and the like: All incoming electrical service equipment, and to include any existing switchgear, branch circuit panelboards, and/or parts thereof, and to include any electrical equipment that is not mentioned in this paragraph, shall be completely free from any corrosion, rusts, and/or deterioration of any kind.
If in the opinion of the electrical inspector having jurisdiction there is evidence of any electrical equipment and/or parts thereof, that is observed to be corroded, rusted, deteriorated and/or of an unsafe nature, said electrical equipment, switchgear, panelboards, and the like, shall be completely replaced with electrical equipment that is manufactured of "new" condition.
Section 230-52 Change section as follows:
Section 230-52 Individual Conductors Entering Buildings Or Other Structures: Delete section in its entirety.
Section 230-54(B) Change section as follows:
Section 230-54(B) Service Cable Equipped With Raintight Service Head Or Gooseneck: Delete section with reference to use of gooseneck.
Section 230-54(C) Change section as follows:
Section 230-54(C) Service Heads And Goosenecks Above Service-Drop Attachment: Delete reference to use of gooseneck.
Section 230-70(A) Add to section as follows:
Section 230-70(A) Location: The main service disconnecting means (circuit breaker or fused switch device) shall be located within five (5) feet of the point where the service conductors enter the building and/or five (5) feet of the metering device.
Where the use and installation of multi-metering devices are required in buildings and/or structures such as apartment type complexes, condominiums, multi-family type structures, etc., all service entrance equipment, (such as tenant metering equipment, main service disconnecting means, etc.) shall be grouped and shall be installed in a dedicated electrical room so approved for the purpose.
Section 230-71(A) Amend section as follows:
Section 230-71(A) General: The service disconnecting means for each service permitted by section 230-2, or for each set of service entrance conductors permitted by section 230-40, exception number one (1), shall consist of not more than one (1) main disconnect mounted in a single enclosure, in a group of separate enclosures, or in or on a switchboard. There shall be no more than one (1) disconnect per service grouped in any location.
Section 230-79(C) Amend section as follows:
Section 230-79(C) One Family Dwelling: For a new one- family dwelling, the service disconnect means shall have a rating of not less than two hundred (200) amperes.
Section 240-23(a) Add new section as follows:
Section 240-23(a) Service Entrance Neutral Conductors: All service entrance neutral conductors shall be fully rated and fully sized equal to the rating of the service entrance conductors.
Undersizing or derating of the neutral conductors is not permitted and will not be accepted.
Section 240-83(F) Add new section as follows:
Section 240-83(F) Bolt-In Circuit Breakers: All commercial and industrial installations shall use bolt-in type circuit breakers.
Section 240-84 Add new section as follows:
Section 240-84 Number Of Conductors Permitted On A Circuit Terminal: The application and/or installation of more than one (1) conductor to a circuit breaker terminal or a fuse holder terminal shall not be approved and will not be accepted.
(A) In wiring installations where it is required to install parallel sets of conductors, each conductor shall be connected and/or attached to a lug or terminal so designated or sized as to accept not more than one (1) conductor.
Section 250-26(A) Add new section as follows:
Section 250-26(A) Residential Grounding, Primary Ground: When interior water pipe is utilized for grounding method, grounding shall be installed to the street side of the water meter ahead of any shut-off valves.
(A) All ground conductors shall be installed in EMT, rigid heavy wall galvanized steel conduit or IMC.
(B) An approved ground clamp and a metal identification tag shall be installed where the ground is connected to the grounding conductor. Grounding connector shall terminate at a grounding electrode/water pipe.
Section 250-26(B) Add new section as follows:
Section 250-26(B) Grounding: When grounding for any combination of service entrance systems and equipment, the grounding conductor shall be installed directly from the grounding lug and/or neutral buss in the service disconnect enclosure or service distribution enclosure, to the street side of the incoming water service and ahead of any shut-off valve.
Section 250-26(C) Add new section as follows:
Section 250-26(C) Ground Conductor In Conduit: The ground conductor for service entrance equipment, where said service entrance equipment is rated at four hundred (400) amperes and larger, shall be installed in rigid heavy wall galvanized steel or intermediate grade rigid conduit. All fittings, couplings, etc. shall be of the threaded type. Set screws type and/or compression type fittings will not be accepted.
Section 250-26(D) Add new section as follows:
Section 250-26(D) Ground Identification: An approved ground clamp and a metal identification tag shall be installed where the grounding conductor is connected to the grounding electrode.
Section 250-26(E) Add new section as follows:
Section 250-26(E) Ground Conductor: All grounding conductors shall be copper.
Section 300-3(D) Add new section as follows:
Section 300-3(D) Voltage Identification: When more than one (1) voltage is installed or when voltages exceed 240 volts in a building, tenant space, etc., black lettering on an orange sticker shall be installed on the following covers:
(a) Switchgear.
(b) Panelboard.
(c) Junction box.
(d) Pull and/or tap box.
(e) Disconnects.
Section 300-5(L) Add new section as follows:
Section 300-5(L) Detached Structures: All conduits that contain conductors for the purpose of supplying electricity to detached structures such as garages, storage sheds, etc., shall be rigid heavy wall galvanized steel conduit, intermediate metallic conduit, or non- metallic raceway.
Section 314.3 Change section as follows:
Section 314.3 Nonmetallic Boxes: Delete section in its entirety.
Section 314.6 Add new section as follows:
Section 314.6 Sizes Of Junction Boxes: In all single family dwellings, apartment units and/or apartment type complexes, condominiums, townhouses, multifamily structures, detached structures, general outdoor electrical installations, storage sheds, etc. all junction boxes shall be metallic. The minimum dimensions of any junction box, splicing box, pull box, etc. shall be four (4) by four (4) by one and one half (11/2) inches in depth.
Note: Junction boxes required for use for the proper installation and/or mounting of lighting fixtures may be of the eight (8) sided type but shall be a minimum of one and one half (11/2) inches deep.
(A) Junction boxes that are required to be installed in brick and/or masonry walls or structures need not be of the sizes as stated in the paragraph above, however, said junction boxes shall be of the masonry type and approved for location by the electrical inspector having jurisdiction.
Section 314.17(C) Change section as follows:
Section 314.17(C) Nonmetallic Boxes And Conduit Bodies: Delete section in its entirety.
Section 314.20 Add new section as follows:
Section 314.20 Ceiling Fixtures: Ceiling openings in habitable rooms of residential dwellings shall have a fan rated junction box.
Article 320 Change article as follows:
Article 320 Armored Cable: Type AC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 322 Change article as follows:
Article 322 Flat Cable Assemblies: Type FC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 324 Change article as follows:
Article 324 Flat Conductor Cable: Type FCC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 326 Change article as follows:
Article 326 Integrated Gas Space Cable: Type IGS: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 328 Change article as follows:
Article 328 Medium Voltage Cable: Type MV: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 330 Change article as follows:
Article 330 Metal Clad Cable: Type MC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 334 Change article as follows:
Article 334 Nonmetallic-Sheathed Cable: Type NM, NMC, And NMS: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 336 Change article as follows:
Article 336 Power And Control Tray Cable: Type TC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 338 Change article as follows:
Article 338 Service-Entrance Cables: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 340 Change article as follows:
Article 340 Underground Feeder And Branch-Circuit Cable: Type UF: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 352 Change article as follows:
Article 352 Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride Conduit: Type PVC: Delete article in its entirety with exception of II Installation G.
Article 352 Add new article as follows:
Article 352 Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride Conduit: Type PVC: Rigid nonmetallic conduit type PVC is to be terminated with rigid wall conduit of the same size and shall contain a ground wire sized in accordance with table 250-95 (minimum size number twelve (12)) and shall be terminated at a ground bar in the distribution panel (not the neutral) and a grounding bushing shall be installed on the live load side. All penetrations up and into the ground are required to be rigid metallic conduit through the first bend into the ground and continuous on the exterior until penetration into a weather sheltered area.
Article 353 Change article as follows:
Article 353 High Density Polyethylene Conduit: Type HDPE Conduit: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 354 Change article as follows:
Article 354 Nonmetallic Underground Conduit With Conductors: Type NUCC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 355 Change article as follows:
Article 355 Reinforced Thermosetting Resin Conduit: Type RTRC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 356 Change article as follows:
Article 356 Liquidtight Flexible Nonmetallic Conduit: Type LFNC: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 362 Change article as follows:
Article 362 Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing: Type ENT: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 366 Change article as follows:
Article 366 Auxiliary Gutters: Delete all references to nonmetallic gutters.
Section 370-17(c) Change section as follows:
Section 370-17(c) Nonmetallic Boxes: Delete section in its entirety.
Section 370-27(d) Add new section as follows:
Section 370-27(d) Ceiling Fixtures: Ceiling openings in residential living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms shall have a fan rated junction box installed.
Article 378 Change article as follows:
Article 378 Nonmetallic Wireways: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 382 Change article as follows:
Article 382 Nonmetallic Extensions: Delete article in its entirety.
Section 384-100(D) Add new section as follows:
Section 384-100(D) Electrical Equipment Rooms And/Or Closets: In all commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and to include residential buildings, (such as apartment type complexes, condominium type structures, etc.), where vaults, transformers, electrical equipment (such as switchgear, panelboards, distribution points, etc.) are established throughout various floors of the building, all such electrical equipment shall be grouped and installed in an approved electrical closet and/or switchroom so designed and designated for the purpose. Such electrical closets shall be for the exclusive use of the electrical equipment and/or electrical system and shall be so constructed as to provide the required working space around and/or in front of all electrical equipment installed therein.
Section 384-100(E) Add new section as follows:
Section 384-100(E) Rooms To Be Vented: All electrical closets, switchrooms, electrical equipment rooms, transformer rooms and/or vaults, and the like, that contain transformer(s) that are rated one hundred-(100) kVa or larger, shall be power vented to the outside air environment. Ventilation requirements shall be of sufficient size so that said rooms shall not exceed an operating temperature of eighty (80) degrees F.
Section 384-100(F) Add new section as follows:
Section 384-100(F) Industrial-Commercial Panelboards: All panelboards used in an industrial or commercial application shall be of the bolt-in type.
Article 388 Change article as follows:
Article 388 Surface Nonmetallic Raceways: Delete article in its entirety.
Article 604 Change article as follows:
Article 604 Manufactured Wiring Systems: Delete article in its entirety.
Section 605-4 Change section as follows:
Section 605-4 Partition Interconnections: Delete all exceptions.
Section 680-41 Add to section as follows:
Section 680-41 Indoor Installation: Spas and hot tubs installed within a residence, hotel, motel, health spa, or other commercial building shall be protected by an approved GFCI circuit breaker (a GFCI receptacle with the appliance connected to the load side of the receptacle or plugged into a GFCI under the tub shall not be accepted).
Section 720-11 Amend section as follows:
Section 720-11 Mechanical Execution Of Work: All conductors installed for low voltage applications such as door bells, door lock release devices, thermostat control, control wiring in general, music systems, communication systems, TV and cable TV systems, etc. shall be installed in electrical metallic tubing, rigid heavy wall galvanized steel conduit, intermediate metallic conduit, and the like, or other approved raceway within walls or other inaccessible locations in areas where said low-voltage installations may be subject to mechanical damage, or where exposed below the bottom of the lowest structural support of the ceiling or floor above.
(Ord. 2008-54, 8-21-2008)