A. Inspections Outside City Limits: Where work required to be inspected will be wholly or partially enclosed within a prefabricated building assembly, which is constructed in a plant more than fifteen (15) miles outside the corporate limits of the City, and where the City Inspector determines that it is impractical or uneconomical for him to travel to the plant to inspect the electrical, building, and plumbing work in such assembly(s), the requirement of the City Electrical, Building, and Plumbing Codes, pertaining to installation of the electrical, building, and plumbing work, requests for inspection, inspections by the City Inspector, acceptance of the work and system, and the concealment of the electrical, building, and plumbing work, shall be accomplished as follows: (1975 Code § 9-2-21)
The fabricator shall arrange for the in-plant inspection(s) to be performed and certified by an approved inspection agency as defined in the Uniform Building Code, and such inspection agency shall provide the City Inspector with an approved certification, stating that the electrical, building, and plumbing work, system and fixtures, which are wholly or partially enclosed within the prefabricated assembly, have been inspected by the inspection agency and comply with the requirements and standards of City Electrical, Building, and Plumbing Codes, and with any other conditions which may be required by the City Inspector. (1975 Code § 9-2-21; amd. 1998 Code)
B. Approved Inspection Agency: Such approved inspection agency may be the Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc., or any other independent inspection and certification agency which has been approved by the Research Committee of the International Conference of Building Officials of Whittier, California, by their listing on an official Research Committee Recommendation Report as an approved quality control agency. (1975 Code § 9-2-21)