[Amended 9-23-1998]
The Building Department Administrator shall designate and authorize
those electrical inspection agencies that meet all qualification requirements
to conduct electrical inspections and reinspections of all electrical installations
hereinafter described, and to approve or disapprove the same. The Building
Department Administrator shall establish said qualification requirements for
electrical inspection agencies, including minimum requirements for said agencies'
chief electrical inspector and all subordinate electrical inspectors of same.
It shall be in the Building Department Administrator's discretion to determine
whether a particular electrical inspection agency meets those qualification
requirements. In no event shall the cost or expense of inspections or reinspections
as described in this chapter be a charge against the city.
The schedule of rates charged for inspection shall be filed with the
City Clerk and the Building Department Administrator.
This chapter shall not be construed to relieve from or lessen the responsibility
of any person owning, operating, controlling or installing any electrical
wiring, devices, appliances or equipment for loss of life or damage to person
or property caused by any defect therein, nor shall the city or the New York
Board of Fire Underwriters be deemed to have assumed any such liability by
reason of any inspection made pursuant to this chapter.
Appropriate actions and proceedings may be taken at law or in equity
to prevent unlawful construction or to restrain, correct or abate a violation
or to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure or premises or to
prevent illegal acts, conduct of business in or about any premises; and these
remedies shall be in addition to the penalties prescribed in the preceding
section.