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O-76-275 - 6/22/1976ORDINANCE NO. 275 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR REGULATIONS GOVERNING ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION INCLUDING REPAIR, USE AND REMOVAL OF ELECTRICAL WIRING AND EQUIPMENT, CREATING THE OFFICE OF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, AND ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND PERMITS; PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION BY REFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE STANDARD OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECT OF THIS ORDINANCE ON OTHER ORDINANCES OR RESOLUTIONS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS: Section 1: Terms not defined in this ordinance shall be as defined in the zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinance heretofore adopted by the City of Round Rock, Texas. Section 2: The National Electric Code of the National Fire Protection Association being particularly the 1975 edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and excepts such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended, of which not less than three copies have been and/or now filed in the office of the City Secretary of the City of Round Rock, Texas, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out in length herein, and from the date of which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions hereof shall be controling in the construction, alteration, maintenance or removal of all electrical wiring and apparatus within the corporate limits of the City of Round Rock, Texas. Section 3: There is hereby created the office of Electrical Inspector who shall be appointed by the City Manager. The Electrical Inspector shall have had at least two (2) years experience as an electrician, shall be of good moral character, shall be versed in the approved methods of electrical construction for safety of life and property and the National Electrical Code. He shall receive such compensation as the Council may decide. Section 4: The Electrical Inspector shall have the duty and is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to regulate and determine the placing of electric wires or other appliances for electric lights, heat or power in the City of Round Rock, Texas, and to cause all such wires, appliances or apparatuses to be placed, constructed, and guarded as not to cause fires or accidents, endangering life or property, and to be constructed as to keep to a minimum the loss or waste of electric current. It shall be the duty of the City Electrical Inspector to enforce all provisions of this ordinance and he is hereby granted the authority to enter all buildings in the City of Round Rock, Texas, in the performance of his duties between the hours of eight a.m. and five p.m. daily, except that in emergency and within the limits of reason, the Electrical Inspector may enter buildings for such purposes at other than the designated hours. It shall be the duty of the City Electrical Inspector to inspect and/or test all electrical work and equipment or apparatuses for compliance with the National Electric Code. Whenever electric wiring, appliances, or apparatuses shall be defective or hazardous through improper manufacture of improper or insufficient insulation or for any other reason, he shall at once cause the removal of such defect or defects, at the expense of the owners of such wiring, appliance or apparatus. Section 5: No installation, alteration, or removal shall be made in/or of the wiring of any building or structure for light, heat or power or to increase the load of energy carried by such wires or equipment, nor shall any building or structure be wired for electric lights, appliances, motors, apparatuses, or heating devices nor alterations made thereto without a written permit being first obtained from the City by the person, firm, or corporation having direct charge of such installation. Section 6: Upon the completion of the wiring, installation or alteration of any building or structure for light, heat, power, appliance, or apparatus, it shall be the duty of the person, firm, or corporation having direct charge of such to notify the City Electrical Inspector who shall, as early as possible, inspect such wiring, installations, appliance, and apparatus and see that it is installed, altered and constructed in compliance with the permit and in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance. He shall execute a certificate of satisfactory inspection, which shall contain the date of such inspection and the result of his examination, but no such certificate shall be issued unless such electrical wiring, motors, heating devices, appliances and apparatus be in strict accord with the rules and requirements and the spirit of this ordinance, nor shall current be turned on such installation, equipment, appliance, motors, heating device, and apparatus until said certificate be issued. The amount of fee or charge to be made for such inspections and certificate to be fixed and determined by the City Council of the City of Round Rock. Section 7: All electrical construction, all materials, appliances, motors, heating devices, and apparatuses used in connection with electrical work and the operation of all electrical apparatuses within the City of Round Rock shall conform to the rules and requirements of the National Electric Code current when work is performed or equipment and apparatus installed, however, the necessity, of good service and said results often require larger sizes of wire, more branch circuits, and better types of equipment than the minimum which is specified in the National Electric Code. Therefore, the City Electrical Inspector supervising the enforcement of this code will have the responsibility and authority for making interpretations of the rules, or deciding upon the approval of the equipment, materials, construction and for granting the special permission contemplated in a number of the rules and the City Electrical Inspector, where necessary, shall follow the code procedure for securing official interpretations of the code. Section 8: Any person , firm, or corporation desiring to engage in the business of electrical construction or of the installation of wiring and apparatuses for electrical lights, appliances, heating or power in the City of Round Rock, shall, before doing so, obtain a Master Electrician License, the fee for which will be $50.00 per year which shall be paid into the City Treasury before such Master; Electrician License shall become effective. Section 9: Every person, firm or corporation doing electrical business in the City of Round Rock shall execute and deliver to the City a bond with a surety bonding company in the sum of $2,000.00 to indemnify the city or any citizen for any damage caused by the failure of such person, firm, or corporation doing the electrical work to comply strictly with the provisions of this ordinance. Section 10: No Master Electrician License shall be issued until the party applying for same has given satisfactory evidence to the City Electrical Inspector of his or their experience and ability to do said electrical work in a safe and satisfactory manner. No permit for installation or alteration of any wiring, heating devices, motors, appliances and apparatus shall be issued until the license and bond herein required have been obtained. Section 11: Any person, firm, or corporation who shall fail to correct any defect or defects in his or their work or to meet the required standards after having been given notice of the unfit condition by the City Electrical Inspector, within a reasonable time, shall be refused any other permit until such defect or defects have been corrected and shall be subject to revocation of license for continual defective work or either upon conviction for violation of the provisionsof this ordinance. Section 12: Upon failure to comply with this ordinance, the City Electrical Inspector shall have authority, after due notice, to cut out electric current in the locality concerned. Section 13: Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than $200.00. Each transaction and violation of any of the provisions hereof shall be deemed a separate offense, and as a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Section 14: Any individual desiring to perform his own electrical work personally shall not be required to make the required bond or to obtain the required license, but shall be required to obtain the regular permit for that particular job. Such work done by an individual must be done by him personally on his own particular job and not be a way of performing a service to the public generally. Section 15: All ordinances, parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict herewith are expressly repealed. Section 16: The invalidity of any section or provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted shall not invalidate other sections or provisions thereof. READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED this Z2 day of June, 1976. ATTEST: y Secretary 'RAY '(ITT ON, Mayor Cy of Round Rock, Texas