A. Certificate Required:
1. It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business, trade or vocation of electrical contractor, journeyman electrician or apprentice electrician without a certificate of registration as such secured from the city.
2. The initial fee for a registration certificate, and any renewal, to be paid to the city clerk, shall be as set by the city council.
3. A registration certificate must be renewed within ninety (90) days following expiration of the certificate. After the expiration, an application for a new certificate must be requested and the initial fee paid again.
4. No person may be registered with the city as contractor, journeyman or apprentice unless he possesses a valid and current state license issued by the state and pays the registration fee.
5. This certificate is not transferable to any other individual or company.
B. Bond Requirements: Every person receiving a certificate as an electrical contractor shall file with the city clerk a bond in such sum as set by the city council, executed with a surety company authorized to do business in the state, in the sum as set by the city council. The bond shall be conditioned that the principal will install all electrical wiring, fixtures, appliances, and equipment in accordance with the law and the ordinances and other regulations of the city relating to electrical installations and in a workmanlike manner; that the principal shall, without further cost to the person for whom the work was done, remedy any defective or faulty work caused by poor workmanship or inferior or nonstandard material; and that the city may be fully indemnified and held harmless from any and all costs, expenses or damage resulting from the performance of his work as an electrical contractor or apprentice electrician, as the case may be.
C. Apprentice Or Helper Restricted: No apprentice electrician or electrician's helper shall perform electrical installation work or repair unless he shall be, at all times during the performance of any such work, under the direct supervision of a duly licensed journeyman electrician.
D. Exception: For the installing of bell, telephone or signal systems not using over twelve (12) volts, no registration or bond will be required. The installation of same must comply with all other requirements of the ordinances of the city.
E. Revocation Of Certificate; Hearing: After adequate opportunity for a hearing, the city council may revoke the certificate of an electrical contractor, an apprentice electrician, or a journeyman electrician. (1990 Code § 5-307)