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Any person making application for such permit shall state the sizes of conductors to be used in or upon any building for all services, main feeders and subfeeders, the areas to be served by such conductors and show the basis used in computing the required sizes of such conductors. Such person shall, when required by the electrical inspector, file with him complete plans and specifications showing everything necessary to determine whether the installation as described will be in conformity with the requirements of this chapter. (Prior code § 16-1-7)
Before any work is done, the person shall make application for a permit and shall pay to the city a fee in the amount as follows:
A. For new work or addition to old work:
1. First ten outlets, twenty cents each;
2. From eleven to twenty outlets, fifteen cents each;
3. For all additional outlets, ten cents each.
B. For installation of fixtures, the same as outlets.
C. For each meter loop, fifty cents.
D. Motors.
1. Fractional horsepower up to and including one-third horsepower, same as outlets;
2. All motors over one-third horsepower, one dollar per horsepower or fraction thereof for each motor with a maximum fee of three dollars for any one motor;
3. For changing when no wire is installed a fee of fifty cents will be charged.
E. Fans. Ceiling and exhaust fans, twenty-five cents each, with a minimum charge of fifty cents.
F. Floodlights. One dollar for the first floodlight and twenty-five cents for each additional one.
G. Electric Signs.
1. One dollar and one-half fee as noted in this section for each outlet with a maximum fee of five dollars;
2. Canteen or ball printed sign, one dollar;
3. Barber poles, one dollar and one-half;
4. Window strip lighting, cove lighting and decorative hghting, one dollar and one-half per circuit.
H. Neon signs.
1. One dollar and one-half plus twenty cents per ampere;
2. Outside neon stripping, one dollar plus twenty cents per ampere;
3. Inside neon window lighting and other inside neon signs, twenty-five cents per ampere.
I. Electrical Ranges. One dollar each. For extra inspection made necessary by work rejected on first inspection, one dollar.
J. For inspection of apparatus for which no fee is prescribed, the inspector shall charge one dollar for the first hour or fraction thereof and one dollar for each additional hour or fraction thereof engaged in making the inspection. (Prior code § 16-1-8)
All materials and appliances used in the installations which are covered by this chapter shall be approved. Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, materials and appliances listed in the copyrighted lists of inspected appliances and supplements published by the Underwriters' Laboratories shall be made in conformity with approved methods of construction for safety to life and property, and when so made, shall be considered to be approved. New materials manufactured from time to time and approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters may be made a part of this chapter when and if approved by the inspector. Such approval must be in writing and attached to all copies of this chapter on file in City Hall. (Prior code § 16-1-9)
No certificate of approval shall be issued unless the installation is in strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter, the statutes of the state and unless they are in conformity with approved methods of construction for safety to life and property. The regulations as set forth in the National Electrical Safety Code, as approved by the American Standards Association, and other installation and safety regulations approved by the American Standards Association, shall be prima facie evidence of such approved methods. (Prior code § 16-1-10)
No wiring other than the following shall be employed:
A. Commercial, Industrial, Public Buildings and Apartment Houses.
1. All wiring installed shall be in conduit, surface metal raceway, underfloor raceway, electrical metallic tubing, castinplace raceway and wireways and busways.
2. No wiring shall be connected to any circuit that does not comply with such specifications.
3. No wiring shall be added to an existing system without first correcting any overloaded circuit condition that may exist by splitting up the circuit so that the safe carrying capacity of the conductors is not exceeded. All new wiring installed to make such corrections shall comply with the above.
4. Where outlets or equipment are moved, not to exceed five feet, the type of wiring already in place, if in a safe condition, may be used for such extension. If more than five feet, such extension shall comply with the above.
B. Residences.
1. All complete wiring systems hereafter installed, whether in a building under construction or one already completed, shall be in conduit, surface metal raceway or electrical metallic tubing. There shall be a convenience outlet in each wall of the living room and at least two convenience outlets in all other rooms.
2. All wiring installed in additions to buildings such as a new room or porch that does not exceed thirty percent of the area of the building may be the same type as exists. Convenience outlets are required in all new rooms as specified above.
3. Outlets added to existing wiring may be wired in accordance with the type of wiring already in place provided such wiring complies with the National Electrical Code requirements for open wires, concealed knob-and-tube work, conduit, surface metal raceway, armored cable, nonmetallic sheathed cable or electrical metallic tubing.
4. Any circuit found to be overloaded shall be split up so that the safe carrying capacity of the conductors is not exceeded. (Prior code § 16-1-11)
A. Existing wiring damaged by fire or other causes to the extent of fifty percent of the present installation shall be entirely rewired in the manner required by this chapter.
B. If the damaged installation is less than fifty percent of the present installation, it may be reused but the service and service switches shall be made to conform to the requirements of this chapter.
C. The inspector shall be consulted on all such cases for his approval. (Prior code § 16-1-12)
A. Every person, owning or operating a line of wires over streets, alleys or buildings in the city shall use only wires that are suitable and strong. Such person shall suitably and safely attach them to strong and sufficient supports and insulate them at all points of attachment and shall remove all wires abandoned for use. Such person shall suitably insulate every wire where it enters a building and, if such is other than a wire designed to carry an electric light or power current, shall attach to it at suitable and convenient points in the circuit calculated to prevent danger from fire and near the place of entering the building, an appliance calcu lated to prevent at all times a current of electricity of such intensity or volume as to be capable of injuring electrical instruments or causing fire from entering building by means of such wire beyond the point at which such appliance is attached.
B. No section wires shall be installed, operated or maintained over any street, alley, sidewalk or building in the city which shall be liable to seriously interfere with the work of the fire department in the use of ladders or other apparatus, or which shall obstruct or render hazardous the use of fire escapes and on complaint, such hazardous wires shall be removed or properly rearranged.
C. No wires shall be strung across streets or alleys except those granted by franchise by the city.
D. Wherever possible and expedient signal wires shall be carried on the same pole with the electric light or power wires. Such joint construction shall be made as recommended by the National Electrical Safety Code. (Prior code § 16-1-13)
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