A. Compliance Required: The standards and specifications for the installation and alteration of electrical equipment, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be in conformity with the provisions of this section, with the statutes of the state, any orders, rules and regulations issued by authority thereof, and with approved electrical standards for safety to persons and property. Where no specific standards are prescribed by this chapter or by the statutes of the state or by any orders, rules or regulations issued by authority thereof, conformity with the electrical code as adopted by the village shall be prima facie evidence of conformity with approved minimum standards for safety to persons and property.
B. Special Wiring Methods: The electrical inspector may, with the approval of the village board, authorize electrical installations with special wiring methods. Withholding of approval by the village board may be appealed to the circuit court as provided by law. Any time limitations upon appeals to a court of law begin to run upon receipt of the village board's decision.
C. Wiring Within Fire Limits And Light Industrial And Commercial Zones: Fire limits, for the purposes of this subsection, are to coincide with those established in the building regulations of the village. All wiring in this area and such areas zoned as light industrial or business shall be installed in either flexible steel around armored cable, limited in accordance with the electrical regulations of the village, or rigid metal conduit, or electrical metallic tubing.
D. Residential Installation Compliance:
1. New Installations Or Alterations: When any additions, alterations or renewals of existing electrical equipment in residential structures lawfully installed prior to the effective date hereof are made, such portion of the installation which is added or renewed shall conform to this chapter.
2. Existing Installations: Existing electrical installations in residential structures which do not conform to this chapter, but which were lawfully installed prior to the effective date hereof, may be continued in use if maintained in a safe and satisfactory condition.
E. Bathrooms: In dwelling units, at least one wall receptacle shall be installed in the bathroom adjacent to the basin location. However, in no case shall any outlet switch or unapproved fixtures be installed within reach of the bathtub and shower, and three feet (3') shall be considered minimum distance from said bathtub or shower.
F. Ground Fault Protection: Ground fault protection requirements shall be the same in commercial and industrial buildings as in residential buildings, being those requirements set forth in the electrical code as adopted by the village.
G. Ground Wire: Ground wire shall be required in the use of all metal surface raceways and wire mold.
H. Minimum Residential Service: Minimum size for any one- and two-family service entrance shall be one hundred (100) ampere 3-wire THW or RHW. In no case shall the service conduit be less than one and one-fourth inch (1¼") diameter rigid metal on new constructions, and one inch (1") rigid conduit on rewire construction.
I. Uses Permitted: Type NM and type NMC cable, minimum size no. 12 copper or equivalent, shall be permitted to be used in one- and two-family dwellings not exceeding three (3) floors above grade. All service and sub feeds shall be installed in raceways. For the purpose of this subsection, the first floor of a building shall be that floor which is designed for human habitation, and which has fifty percent (50%) or more of its perimeter level with or above the finished grade of the exterior wall line.
J. Raceways: All wiring shall be run in metallic raceways except for the following:
1. Wiring twenty four (24) volts or less;
2. One- and two-family dwellings three (3) or less stories above grade;
3. Wiring placed up to four feet (4') above grade for service entrances and sub-feed cables;
4. Flexible metallic wiring systems consisting of conductors larger than 4/0 copper or aluminum equivalent in a flexible metallic sheet in exposed locations only; or
5. Corrosive locations with approval of the electrical inspector. (Ord. 1570, 9-17-2012; amd. Ord. 1776, 11-6-2023)