(A) Master electrician. The term “master electrician” shall mean a person having the necessary qualifications, training, experience and technical knowledge to properly plan, lay out and supervise the installation of electrical wiring, apparatus, the equipment for electric light, heat, power and other purposes in accordance with the standard rules and regulations governing such work, and who is qualified under the provisions of this chapter.
(1) He must be a person of not less than 21 years of age and of good moral character.
(2) He must be a graduate electrical engineer from a recognized university or college with at least two years of actual experience installing wires, conductors, and electrical equipment used inside and outside of buildings for transmissions of electrical current for light, heat or power, or
(3) He must have had at least six years experience, two years as a journeyman, installing wires, conductors and electrical equipment used inside and outside of buildings for the transmission of electrical current for light, heat, or power.
(4) No master electrician may be a master electrician for more than one person, firm, corporation, association or other legal entity.
(5) His principal income must be or will be from electrical contract work.
(B) Electrical contractor. The term “electrical contractor” means any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association, or combination thereof who undertakes or who offers to undertake to plan for, layout, supervise and install or to make additions, alterations, and repairs in the installation of wiring, apparatus and equipment for electric light, heat and power for a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage or other compensation. No persons, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association or combination thereof shall operate as an electrical contractor unless he is a licensed master electrician or has a licensed master electrician in his or its employment.
(C) Journeyman electrician. The term “journeyman electrician” means a person who possesses the necessary qualifications, training and technical knowledge to install wires, conductors and electrical equipment in accordance with plans and specifications supplied for the transmission of electrical current for light, heat or power. He shall have had at least four years experience installing wire, conductors and electrical equipment used inside and outside of buildings for the transmission of electrical current for light, heat, or power.
(D) Apprentice electrician. The term “apprentice electrician” shall mean a person working or serving to learn or be skilled in any branch of the electrical trade and cannot perform the actual work of installing, repairing or maintaining electrical wiring and equipment, unless under the direct supervision of a master or journeyman electrician. An apprentice is not required to be licensed under this chapter but his employer must register his name with the City Electrical Inspector who will issue a certificate of grade to the apprentice.
(E) Maintenance electrician. The term “maintenance electrician” means a person engaged only in the work of operating the electrical installation in any certain building or buildings or factory and/or the maintenance of such work. Every person employed to maintain or supervise the maintenance of electrical systems or electrical machinery shall be licensed as an electrical maintenance electrician.
(1) He shall have had at least four years experience in the installation and/or maintenance of electrical wiring and equipment.
(2) He shall not be employed by more than one person, firm, corporation and shall not maintain more than one electrical system.
(3) He shall be permitted to make extensions or additions to any class of electrical work on the premises for which he is employed to maintain, provided permits and inspections are obtained in accordance with the city’s electrical ordinance.
(F) Grandfather clause. Notwithstanding the provisions of divisions (A) and (B) above, any person who is employed as a master electrician or is engaged in business as an electrical contractor on the effective date of this chapter shall be issued a license upon payment of the license fee, provided such person certifies and demonstrates to the satisfaction of the City Electrical Inspector in his application, which shall be filled in within two months after the effective date of this chapter, that he meets the applicable requirements as defined in this section.
(G) Death of master electrician. In the event of the death of a master electrician employed by or engaged as an electrical contractor, the City Electrical Inspector may upon receipt of an affidavit of death, issue a permit authorizing the contractor of his estate to complete the job or jobs for which the master electrician was employed, subject to all inspections hereafter provided for, but any new job contracted for or begun after the date of the death of the master electrician and/or electrical contractor shall have a master electrician employed.
(H) Responsibility or liability. This chapter shall not be construed to affect the responsibility or liability of any person, firm or corporation, owning, operating, controlling or installing electrical materials, devices, appliances or equivalent for damages to persons or property caused by any defects therein, nor shall the city be held to assume any such liability by reason of the approval of any material, devices, appliances, or equipment authorized hereunder.
(Ord. 40, passed 4-28-70; Am. Ord. 58, passed 5-23-72) Penalty, see § 151.99