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OFFICE OF ELECTRICAL OFFICIAL CREATED: RULES PROVIDED FOR INSTALL-
ATION AND INSPECTION OF' ELECThICAL hIhIT;G AND OTIT:.R ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES: FOR FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
Section 1. Created. There is hereby created the office of
electrical official of the City of Fairhope.
Section 2, Electrical Installations: No electric wiring for
light, heat or power shall be installed hereafter in a building or
structure, nor shall an alteration or extension of an existing
electric wiring system be made, except in conformity with the pro-
visions of this ordinance and rules that may be adopted and promulga-
ted by the electrical official under the provisions of this
Ordinance.
Section 3. tork to comply with the 1953 National Electrical
Code. All electrical work and all materials and appliances used
in connection therewith installed within the City of Fairhope shall
conform to the rules and regulations and requirements of the 1953
National Electrical Code, and said rules and regulations are hereby
adopted and approved as a part of this Ordinance, and by reference
are made a part thereof.
Section 4. During Installation. The electrical official shall,
during the installation of an electric wiring system, make or cause
inspections to be made to assure compliance with this code and the
rules.
(a) No work in connection with an electric wiring system shall
be covered or concealed until it has been inspected as prescribed
in this ordinance and permission to do so has been given by the elect-
rical official.
(b) Completion of work. The electrical official shall within
a reasonable time after notice of the completion of electrical wiring,
for which a permit is required by this Ordinance, make or cause to
be made an inspection of such work and such tests as may be necessary
to determine that it conforms with this ordinance and the rules.
(c) Reinspection. The electrical official shall make or cause
to be made a reinspection of an electric wiring installation when«
ever he deems it necessary in the interest of public safety.
(d) If an electric wiring system upon reinspection is found
to be defective and unsafe, the electrical official shall revoke
all certificates, in effect at that tire, relating to such system;
and the use of such system shall be discontinued until it has been
made to conform to this Ordinance and the rules and a new certificate
has been issued by the electrical official.
(e) Restriction. It shall be unlawful to use or permit the use
of, or to supply current far, electric wiring for light, heat or
power in a building or structure unless the required inspection and
approval has been made. in his
(f) Temporary Current. The electrical official may,
discretion, give temporary permission for a reasonable tire, to
supply and use current in part of an electric installation before
such installation has been fully completed.
Section 5. Permit. No alteration shall be mace in wiring
for light, heat or power, or any additional load be added, other than
load for which the system was designed, to any existing wiring nor
shall any building be wired for electric light, motors, or heating
devices without a written permit from the electrical official. There
shall be no charge for permit or first inspection provided work or
installation is ap roved on first inspection. if not approved on
first inspection Mrs shall be s charge of $2*50 for each subsequent
inspection until work has been approved.
In the event that an electrical permit is not obtained prior
to the time that the work is actually commenced, in any case where
an electrical permit is required by the provisions of this ordinance
then the aforesaid fees for the electrical inspection shall be
charged the permit; provided however that the provisions of this
subdivision shall not apply when the work must be done immediately
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because of en emergency, in which event the owner or contractor sha.il
telephone the office of the electrical official and report the
emergency and the extent of the work to be done and then obtain the
electrical p-armit within the next twenty-four hours, or if the office
of the electrical official is not open for business then the owner
or contractor shall obtain the electrical permit within the next
forty eight hours immediately following the beginning of the work.
Each air conditioning unit regardless of type shall require an
electrical permit, and the frame or cabinet shall be effectively
grounded.
Air conditioning units rated over one. -half (J) ton capacity
shall operate on 208 volts or higher.
Section b. Notice to Electrical Official, by Contractor, when
work is completed. Upon the completion of the wiring of any build-
ing and/or upon the completion of any alteration or change or repair,
or the adding of any load to existing wiring for lights, heat or
power, it shall be the duty of the company, firm, or individual
doing the same to notify the electrical official who shall then in-
spect, or cause such wiring or appliances to be inspected.
Section 7. Notice of Defective Wiring Correction. Whenever
existing wiring or apparatus is found to be defective through
improper installation, or for any other reason that the installa-
tion does not meet the National Electrical Code requirements, the
City electrical official shall serve the owner with a memorandum of
the defects to be corrected and such owner shall have the defects
corrected within ten (10) days of the service of such notice; and
in event a tenant has had any work done in which defects are found
it shall be the duty of such tenant to have the same corrected with.
in ten (10) days of the service of such memorandum on him; and such
tenant as well as the owner on failure to make the correction within
the ten (10) days of the service of such notice shall be guilty of
violating these provisions,
Section 8. Defective Apparatus to be Disconnected until
Corrected: If any wiring or apparatus in use or connected for
is found by the electrical official to be so defective or improper
as to create a hazardous condition, he may disconnect the parts of
the wiring or equipment or require the company furnishing the
current to discontinue the service, at his discretion, and to keep
the service discontinued until the wiring or equipment is made safe,
in compliance with the rules governing the same,
Section 9, Alteration in Load Not to be Made Without Permit.
Neither the owner, nor agent, nor tenant of any building in the
City of Fairhope shall permit any alteration in the wiring there-
of for light, heat or power, or permit any additional load, other
than that load for which the wiring was designed, to be added to
any existing wiring, or permit any such building to be wired for
electric lights, motors, heating device, or power, without first
requiring the person, firm or corporation proposing to do such work,
to produce the permit therefor from the electrical official, as re-
quired by this ordinance.
Section 10. Special Rules - Fire Limits. The term "Fire Limits"
as referred to in the several provisions of this ordinance relating
to electrical work within the Fire Limits of the City of Fairhope
shall be taken to mean and include the district contained within the
fire limits prescribed by ordinance as they exist at the time of the
installation or performance of electrical work,
Section 11. Conduit. In addition to buildings specified in the
Yational ElectrA cal Code, all electrical wiring for light' heat, or
power hereafter to be installed within the City of Fairhope and as
respectively described in the following sections, shall in all cases
be encased in metallic conduit, or tubing, viz:
(a) All electric wiring in buildings (except private dwellings)
situated in the dis tract known as the Fire Limits.
M All electric wiring in buildings known to the building trade
as fireproof or fire resistive.
(c) All electric wiring in apartment houses of 5 or more
apartments, theatres, schools, churches, hospitals, almshouses,
asylums, loft buildings, nursing homes, rest homes, or work shops
over one story where female help is employed, hotels, convents,
jails or prisons, club houses, public buildings and assembly halls,
or any place where there is likely to be an assembly of people in
any considerable number.
(d) All service switchas shall -be class "A" or approved equal.
(e) All supply wires.leading to electric signs.
(f) Lead covered wires or approved equal shall be used in all
uncerground conduit services, and shall,be provided at each end with.
epproved weather heads or other outlet device approved for the pur-
pose.
Section 12. Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation or associa-
tion zaho shall violate any provision of this Ordinance shall be
guilty of an offense against the City of Fairhope and on conviction
shall be fined not more than $100.00, or by imprisonment not exceed-
irg six months, or by both such fines and imprisonment in the dis-
cretion of. the Court trying the case.
Adopted August 8, 1955•
Mayor
Attest:
Ci y Clerk