As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
APPRENTICE ELECTRICIAN
An individual other than an electrical contractor, master
electrician or electrical journeyman, who is engaged in learning about
and assisting in the installation or alteration of electrical wiring
and equipment under the direct personal supervision of an electrical
journeyman or master electrician.
BOARD
The City of Monroe Electrical Examining and Appeals Board.
DEPARTMENT
The City of Monroe Department of Building, Zoning and Environmental
Compliance.
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
A person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing or maintaining
electrical wiring, devices, appliances or equipment.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
All electrical devices in connection with the generation,
distribution, communication and utilization of electrical energy,
within or on a building, residence, structure or properties, including
fire alarm and sign devices.
ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR
A person who has the necessary qualifications, training,
experience and technical knowledge to inspect all electrical apparatus
for compliance with applicable codes and who shall be the agent or
employee of the Department who is designated by the Building Official
as an electrical inspector. Inspectors shall be registered pursuant
to Act 54 of the Public Acts of 1986, as amended, being MCLA § 330.2301
et seq., and known as the Building Officials and Inspectors Registration
Act.
ELECTRICAL JOURNEYMAN
A person other than an electrical contractor who, as his
or her principal occupation, is engaged in the practical installation
or alteration of electrical wiring. An electrical contractor or master
electrician may also be an electrical journeyman.
ELECTRIC SIGN
Fixed, stationary or portable self-contained, electrically
illuminated equipment that has words or symbols designed to convey
information or attract attention. The term includes outline lighting
but does not include those signs that are indoor or outdoor portable
applications or recognized holiday residential signs listed with a
recognized electrical testing laboratory and that use a cord Cap-110
volt plug as the electrical energizing attachment method.
ELECTRICAL WIRING
All wiring, generating equipment, fixtures, appliances and
appurtenances in connection with the generation, distribution, communication
and utilization of electrical energy, within or on a building, residence,
structure or properties, including service entrance wiring as defined
by the National Electrical Code.
FIRE ALARM CONTRACTOR
A person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
erecting, installing, altering, repairing, servicing or maintaining
wiring, devices, appliances or equipment of a fire alarm system.
FIRE ALARM SPECIALTY APPRENTICE TECHNICIAN
An individual other than a fire alarm contractor or a fire
alarm specialty technician who is engaged in learning about and assisting
in the installation or alteration of fire alarm system wiring and
equipment under the direct personal supervision of a fire alarm specialty
technician.
FIRE ALARM SPECIALTY TECHNICIAN
A person other than a fire alarm contractor who, as his or
her principal occupation, is engaged in the practical installation
or alteration of fire alarm system wiring.
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
A system designed to detect and annunciate the presence of
fire, or by-products of fire, installed within a building or structure.
"Fire alarm system" does not include a single station smoke detector.
JOB SITE
The immediate work area within the property lines of a single
construction project, alteration project or maintenance project where
electrical construction or alteration of electrical wiring is in progress.
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
A person having the necessary qualifications, training experience
and technical knowledge to supervise the installation of electrical
wiring and equipment in accordance with the standard rules and regulations
governing that work.
MINOR REPAIR WORK
Electrical work such as repairing or replacing flush and
snap switches, fuses, lamp sockets or receptacles; replacing fixtures;
repairing or taping bare connections; replacing lamps; or connecting
portable electrical equipment to suitable permanently installed receptacles,
provided the total value does not exceed $100.
OUTLINE LIGHTING
An arrangement of incandescent lamps or electric discharge
tubing which is an integral part of an electrical sign that outlines
certain features, such as the shape of a building or the decoration
of a window.
OWNER
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation
and their legal successors. In all proceedings, actions or prosecution
hereunder, in which a corporation is the owner of any building, structure
or part thereof, or of premises, any of its officers, directors or
persons in control or management thereof, as well as the corporation
itself, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
SIGN SPECIALIST
A person who, as his or her principal occupation, is engaged
in the installation, alteration or repair of electrical signs.
SIGN SPECIALTY CONTRACTOR
A person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
manufacturing, installing, maintaining, connecting or repairing electrical
sign wiring or devices, including wiring that is directly related
to electrical signs and is electrically dedicated as a sign circuit
beginning at the load side of the sign circuit disconnect.
SIGN WIRING
A.
Except as otherwise provided in Subsections
B,
C and
D of this definition, that portion of the electrical sign wiring that originates at the load-side terminals of a disconnecting means located in the vicinity of the electrical sign involved, but not including the installation of the disconnecting means, complete with line-side connections;
B.
In the case of electrical sign installations
having sign transformers installed physically apart from the electrical
sign, that portion of the electrical sign wiring that originates at
the load-side terminals of a disconnecting means located in the vicinity
of the electrical sign involved, but not including the installation
of the disconnecting means, complete with line-side connections;
C.
In the case of freestanding electrical sign
installations supplied through underground circuit conductors, that
portion of the electrical sign wiring that originates at a wiring
termination point adjacent to, within or immediately above the permanent
base for the electrical sign, but not including, if the base of the
sign structure is suitable for use as a raceway, the installation
of bushing, complete with free-length circuit conductors extending
through to accommodate the connection of the related wiring within
the sign structure raceway;
D.
In the case of electrical signs specifically
designed to be connected directly to the building wiring raceway or
cable supply, that portion of the electrical sign wiring that originates
at the point where the free-length circuit conductors extend through
the building wiring raceway or cable at the specifically designed
supply location for the electrical sign involved, but not including
the installation of the building wiring raceway or cable system to
the specifically designated point of supply for the electrical sign
involved, complete with free-length circuit conductors extending through
the building wiring raceway or cable to accommodate the connection
of the related wiring.
[Amended 6-18-2001 by Ord. No. 01-013]
A. The Electrical Appeals Board, also referred to in
this chapter as the "Board," shall have and hereby is given jurisdiction,
subject to review as hereinafter provided, over the inspection of
all electrical installations, including changes, repairs and additions
thereto, within the City of Monroe.
B. The Electrical Appeals Board shall consist of the
Chief Electrical Inspector of the City of Monroe, a representative
of the electrical utility company, a licensed electrical contractor
who is also a licensed master electrician, and an electrical engineer.
C. The City of Monroe shall appoint an electrical inspector or electrical inspectors, who shall be licensed as an electrical journeyman or master electrician and who shall inspect all electrical installations and report to the inspection authority. This authority shall apply to the installation of electrical wiring and electrical devices, apparatus and equipment for connection to electrical supply systems, except as provided in §
305-6A to
F and
H.
When an application is made for a permit, license,
registration or examination required under this chapter, a fee shall
be paid in an amount prescribed by the Department of Building, Zoning
and Environmental Compliance and approved by resolution of the City
Council.
Subject to the Constitution and laws of the
State of Michigan, the Electrical Inspector and/or his or her deputy
shall have the right, during reasonable hours, to enter any building
in the discharge of his or her official duties for the purpose of
making any inspection or test of the installation of electrical wiring,
electrical devices and/or electrical materials contained therein and
shall have the authority to cause the turning off of all electrical
supply and to disconnect, in cases of emergency, any wire where such
electrical currents are dangerous to life or property or may interfere
with the work of the Fire Department.
No person, firm or corporation shall engage
in the business of electrical contracting, fire alarm contracting
or sign contracting unless such person, firm or corporation shall
have received from the State or the appropriate municipality the appropriate
contractor's license, nor shall any person, other than an electrical
journeyman and other than a person duly licensed and employed by and
working under the direction of a holder of an electrical contractor's
license, a fire alarm contractor's license or a sign contractor's
license, in any manner undertake to execute any electrical wiring
without first obtaining the required license therefor, except that
no license shall be required by the Electrical Examining and Appeals
Board to perform the work indicated in Subsections G, I, J, K, L,
M and N hereof, nor shall a license or permit be required to execute
the work covered by Subsections A, B, C, D, E, F and H hereof.
A. Monroe repair work, as defined.
B. The installation, alteration, repairing, rebuilding
or remodeling of elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators or manlifts performed
under a permit issued by an elevator inspection agency of the State
of Michigan or a political subdivision of the State of Michigan.
C. The installation, alteration or repair of electrical
equipment and its associated wiring, installed on the premises of
consumers or subscribers by or for electrical energy supply or communication
agencies for use by such agencies in the generation, transmission,
distribution or metering of electrical energy, or for the operation
of signals or transmission of intelligence, not including fire alarm
systems.
D. The installation, alteration or repair of electrical
wiring for the generation and primary distribution of electric current,
or the secondary distribution system, up to and including the meters,
where such work is an integral part of the system owned and operated
by an electric light and power utility in rendering its duly authorized
service.
E. Any work involved in the manufacture of electrical
equipment, including the testing and repairing of such manufactured
equipment.
F. The installation, alteration or repair of equipment
and its associated wiring for the generation or distribution of electric
energy for the operation of signals or transmission of intelligence
where such work is in connection with a communications system owned
or operated by a telephone or telegraph company in rendering its duly
authorized service as a telephone or telegraph company.
G. Any installation, alteration or repair of electrical
equipment by a homeowner in a single-family home and accompanying
outbuildings owned and occupied or to be occupied by the person performing
the installation, alteration or repair of electrical equipment.
H. Any work involved in the use, maintenance, operation,
dismantling or reassembling of motion-picture and theatrical equipment
used in any building with approved facilities for entertainment or
educational use and which has the necessary permanent wiring and floor
and wall receptacle outlets designed for the proper and safe use of
such theatrical equipment, but not including any permanent wiring.
I. Work performed by mechanical contractors licensed
in classifications listed in Section 6(3)(a), (b), (d), (e) and (f)
of the Forbes Mechanical Contractor Act, Act 192 of the Public Acts
of 1984, as amended, being MCLA § 338.976, plumbing contractors
licensed under Act 266 of the Public Acts of 1929, as amended, being
MCLA §§ 338.901 to 338.917, and employees of persons
licensed under Act 192 of the Public Acts of 1984, as amended, and
Act 266 of the Public Acts of 1929, as amended, while performing maintenance,
service, repair, replacement, alteration, modification, reconstruction
or upgrading of control wiring circuits and electrical component parts
within existing mechanical systems defined in the mechanical and plumbing
codes provided for in the State Construction Code Act of 1972, including,
but not limited to, energy management systems, relays and controls
on boilers, water heaters, furnaces, air-conditioning compressors
and condensers, fan controls, thermostats and sensors, and all manufacturer
prewired system wiring associated with the mechanical systems in buildings
which are on the load side of the unit disconnect, which is located
on or immediately adjacent to the equipment, except for life safety
systems' wiring.
J. Electrical wiring associated with the installation,
removal, alteration, or repair of a water well pump on a single-family
dwelling to the first point of attachment in the house from the well,
by a registered pump installer under Part 127 of the Public Health
Code, Act 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being MCLA §§ 333.12701
to 333.12771.
K. The installation, maintenance or servicing of burglar
alarm systems within a building or structure.
L. The installation, maintenance or servicing of residential
lawn-sprinkling equipment.
M. The installation, alteration, maintenance or repair
of electrical signs and related wiring by an unlicensed individual
under the direct supervision of a licensed sign specialist, except
that the ratio of unlicensed individuals engaged in this activity
shall not exceed two unlicensed individuals to one licensed sign specialist.
An enforcing agency shall enforce this ratio on a job-site basis.
N. The construction, installation, maintenance, repair
and renovation of telecommunications equipment and related systems
by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications
and related information systems industry. This exception does not
include the construction, installation, maintenance, repair and renovation
of a fire alarm system.
The Electrical Inspector may, when specifically
authorized by state law or by a separate City ordinance, periodically
make a thorough reinspection of the installation in buildings of all
electrical wiring, electrical devices and electrical material now
installed or that may hereafter be installed, within the City of Monroe.
When the installation of any such wiring, devices and/or material
is found to be in a dangerous or unsafe condition, the person, firm,
or corporation owning, using or operating the same shall be notified
and shall make the necessary repairs or changes required to place
such wiring, devices and material in a safe condition and have such
work completed within 15 days, or any longer period specified by the
Electrical Inspector in said notice. The Electrical Inspector is hereby
empowered to disconnect or order in writing the discontinuance of
electrical service to such wiring, devices and/or material found to
be defectively installed until the installation of such wiring, devices
and material has been made safe as directed by the Electrical Inspector.
[Amended 1-4-2005 by Ord. No. 04-018]
No certificate of inspection shall be issued unless the electrical installation is in strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter and Chapter
275, Article
VI, Michigan Electrical Code, the statutes of the State of Michigan and the rules and regulations issued by the Michigan Public Service Commission under the authority of the state statutes, and unless it is in conformity with approved methods of construction for safety to persons and property. Compliance with the provisions of the Michigan Electrical Code, as adopted in Chapter
275, Article
VI, Michigan Electrical Code; the Michigan Building Code, as adopted in Chapter
275, Article
III; and National Fire Protection Association (NFiPA) Standards 71, 72, 72E and 74 for fire alarm systems, and with the amendments, rules and regulations established as hereinafter provided, shall be prima facie evidence of compliance with such approved methods.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply
to apparatus and equipment installed by or for any utility operating
under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Public Service Commission in
the exercise of its function as a utility and when such apparatus
or equipment is used primarily for the purpose of communication or
metering or for the generation, control, transformation, transmission
and distribution of electrical energy.
This chapter shall not be construed to relieve
from responsibility or liability, or reduce the responsibility or
liability of, any person owning, operating, controlling or installing
any electrical wiring, electrical device and/or electrical material,
for damage to any person or property caused by any defect therein,
nor shall the City of Monroe or the Electrical Inspector be held to
assume any such liability by reason of the inspection authorized herein
or by reason of any certificate of inspection issued as provided in
this chapter.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and except as provided for in §
1-27 of the Code of the City of Monroe, a person licensed or registered under this chapter who commits a violation of this chapter or Chapter
275, Article
VI, Michigan Electrical Code, that is not a minor violation as described in the general rules, or a person not licensed or registered under this chapter who is performing any activity regulated by this chapter or Chapter
275, Article
VI, Michigan Electrical Code, is guilty of a civil violation, punishable by a fine or not less than $1,000 per day for each day the violation occurs, except that a fine shall not exceed $5,000 in total per violation. A second or subsequent violation is punishable by a fine of not less than $2,000 per day for each day the violation occurs, except that a fine shall not exceed $10,000 in total per violation.