(a) (1) An electrical permit shall be issued upon an application in writing to the office of City Clerk on a form or forms provided for the purpose.
(2) This application shall, among other things, disclose the following:
(A) The name of the owner of the lot or tract of ground;
(B) The location of the building or structure;
(C) The electrical construction work proposed;
(D) The class of occupancy;
(E) The class of electrical construction;
(F) The kind of materials to be used;
(G) The estimated cost of the work;
(H) The date work will commence;
(I) Expected date of completion;
(J) Name and address of electrical contractor or contractors doing the work; and
(K) Such other information as may be pertinent to the issuance of the required permit.
(b) An application for an electrical permit shall be signed by the owner or his or her duly authorized agent, or an electrician or electrical contractor licensed by the city. If the application is made by the owner or his or her agent, it shall contain the name or names of the licensed electrician or electrical contractor or contractors doing the work described, or an electrical permit may be issued to the owner upon his or her application disclosing satisfactory evidence that the proposed work will be performed by the owner, himself or herself and not by a licensed electrical contractor, and likewise subject to the final approval of the Electrical Inspector for work performed.
(c) Upon approval of the completed application and a determination that a permit should be issued, the Chief Building Official or his or her assistant shall issue a permit to the owner, electrician or electrical contractor authorizing the electrical construction work covered by the application.
(d) Any permit issued under this section shall be valid and subsisting for a period of not more than six months from the date of issuance unless the permittee shall have commenced, within the period so limited, the electrical construction work authorized by such permit.
ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION WORK COMMENCED, for the purpose of this section, shall mean the beginning of electrical construction work other than the preparation of plans or the letting of an electrical contract.