All electrical work and the construction, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment and systems in the City must be performed by persons having a thorough knowledge of it and who are licensed by the City and who are duly registered electricians with the City, or by journeymen or apprentice electricians employed by and under the direction of such licensed electricians and who are duly registered with the City, except that any nonlicensed property owner may, upon fulfillment of §
112-12, perform electrical work in his/her own building provided that the building is strictly a single-family residential and that the owner resides in said building, and further excepted as specified at §
112-10, entitled "Exemptions."
In the event that an applicant for a license is denied such license
by the Board of Electrical Examiners, or in the event that a license is revoked
for any reason whatsoever, an appeal from such decision of the Board of Electrical
Examiners may be taken within 10 days to the Common Council for review and
hearing thereon, and its determination shall be final, subject, however, to
review pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR).
An electrical license is not required for the following classes of work:
A. Any work done by persons employed by manufacturers or
purveyors of electrical equipment in servicing their own products.
B. The connection or disconnection of portable plug-in appliances
to permanently installed receptacles or the attachment or disconnection of
input terminals of electrical appliances; the replacement of defective devices
with directly interchangeable types, i.e., fuses, lamps and switches (when
enclosing boxes are not disturbed).
C. Persons engaged solely in selling or solely in the attachment
of ordinary electrical appliances to existing circuits where no joining or
splicing of electrical conductors is required.
D. Work in connection with the installation, maintenance
and repair of elevators by persons principally engaged in this business.
E. Work involved in the manufacture, test, assembly and
repair of electrical machinery, apparatus, materials and equipment when performed
by persons engaged in manufacturing as their principal business.
F. Work in connection with the erection, construction, maintenance
or repair of lines for the transmission of electricity from the source of
supply to and including the service connection on the premises of the consumer
by authorized public service companies.
G. Work of companies incorporated for the transmission of
communications by electricity in the installation, maintenance or repair of
wires, apparatus, fixtures or other appliances in connection therewith.