(A) Pilot light for irons. In all mercantile occupancies where electric irons are used, they must be installed with approved pilot light. If pilot light is in an enclosure such as an alteration room, an additional light must be installed in a visible position outside the enclosure.
(B) Branch circuits.
(1) In residential and mercantile occupancies, lighting branch circuits shall be confined to 1,000 watts, and not more than eight outlets per circuit will be allowed in the fire limits.
(2) Branch circuit conductors shall be smaller than No. 12.
(3) Type C lamp cord will not be permitted in the kitchen or restaurants or like places where grease accumulates, nor in part of a building where live poultry is confined.
(C) Basement installations.
(1) A circuit of not less than No. 12 wire shall be installed in basements in any area subject to floods.
(2) Ground connections shall not be made in toilets, adjacent to salt storage, acid vapors or in any location where the grounding conductor and fitting is likely to become corroded.
(D) Wiring in fire zone.
(1) All wiring hereafter installed in the fire limits must be placed in metallic raceways.
(2) Armored cable or flexible conduit is to be used only when, in the judgment of the electrical inspector, it is impractical to install other metallic raceways.
(3) Exception to the requirements of this division (D) are specified in division (E) of this section.
(E) Extensions of certain installations. Wiring installations, consisting of concealed knob and tube, cleat, armored cable or flexible conduit that was installed previous to the adoption of this code when, in the judgment of the electrical inspector, is in a safe condition, may have extension of the same kind of work made to these installations.
(F) Overhead service conductors.
(1) Overhead service conductors shall be installed in approved metallic raceways, unless approved service entrance cable is used; and raceway shall be continuous to, and securely attached to service equipment.
(2) Installations of four circuits or more shall have three wire service.
(3) No service conductor shall be less than No. 6 B & S gauge.
(G) Rigid conduit.
(1) For mechanical security and continuity to ground, rigid conduit shall be provided with two lock nuts, one inside and one outside the equipment to which it is attached.
(2) Metallic service equipment rigid conduit, electrical metallic tubing, flexible conduit, metallic switch, outlet receptacle and junction boxes shall have a conductive coating or finish. Water- tight couplings shall be employed for joining electrical metallic tubing.
(Ord. 381, passed 8-12-2021)