(A) No person, firm, corporation, association or combination thereof shall engage in the business of installing, maintaining, altering or repairing any electrical equipment within the scope of this subchapter unless such person, firm, corporation, association or combination thereof shall have obtained from the city an electrical contractor’s license, nor shall any electrical contractor employ any but licensed electrical journeymen; except that, the holder of existing electrical licenses granted by the city may be issued renewals of their licenses without taking the examination herein provided for; and also with the exception that no license shall be required in order to execute or perform any electrical work exempted by the provisions of this subchapter.
(2013 Code, § 11-85)
(B) No license is required for the following described work:
(1) Replacement of lamps and fuses, or the connection of portable electrical equipment to permanently installed receptacles;
(2) The installation, alteration or repair of electrical equipment installed by, or for, any electrical supply agency in the generation, transmission, distribution or metering of electricity;
(3) Work involved in the manufacturing, testing, servicing, altering or repairing of electrical equipment or apparatus; except that, this exemption shall not include any permanent wiring;
(4) Work involved in the erection, installation, repairing, remodeling or maintenance of elevators, dumbwaiters or escalators, not including electrical equipment for supplying current to the control panel of elevators, dumbwaiters or escalators; and
(5) The assembly, erection and connection of electrical equipment by the manufacturer of such equipment, but not including any electrical equipment other than that involved in making electrical connections on the equipment itself, or between two or more units of said equipment.
(2013 Code, § 11-86)
(Ord. 14392, passed 8-14-1992)