This article shall be known as the "Electrical Code of the City
of Fond du Lac."
[Amended 6-26-1996 by Ord. No. 2816]
Terms used in this article have the following meaning:
ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE
Any person employed by a holder of a City electrical certificate
working under an indenture set forth in § 106.01, Wis. Stats.
ELECTRICAL CONTRACT
Any person who undertakes or offers to undertake with another
to plan for, lay out, supervise and install or to make additions,
alterations and repairs in the installation of wiring apparatus and
equipment for electric light, heat or power. The contractor must hold
a master electrician's license or have a master electrician regularly
employed in a supervisory manner.
ELECTRICAL WORK
The installation, superintending or inspection of electrical
wiring and equipment for production, modification, regulation, control,
distribution, utilization or safe guarding of electrical energy as
covered by the Wisconsin Electrical Code, the provisions of which
so far as applicable are hereby adopted by reference together with
all subsequent amendments, additions and revisions.
INDUSTRIAL FIRM, CORPORATION OR INSTITUTION
Any person, industrial firm, corporation or institution engaged
in the manufacture of a product or services regularly employing one
or more licensed electrical maintenance electricians for the alteration,
maintenance, repair and replacement of electrical equipment in or
on buildings or premises owned or occupied.
MAINTENANCE ELECTRICIAN
Any person employed by an industrial firm, corporation or
institution who is skilled in electrical work and whose electrical
work for such employer is limited exclusively to the plant or shop
of his employer.
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
A person having the necessary qualifications, training, experience
and technical knowledge to properly plan, lay out and supervise the
installation of wiring, apparatus and equipment for electric light,
heat, power and purposes in accordance with the Wisconsin Electrical
Code.
[Amended 4-24-2014 by Ord. No. 3544]
Chapter PSC 114 and Chapter SPS 316, Wisconsin State Electrical
Code, Volume 2, are hereby adopted and made part of this article with
the same force and effect as if set forth in full. Any future amendments,
revisions, modifications or renumberings of any statutes or Administrative
Code provisions incorporated herein are intended to be made a part
of this article in order to ensure uniform statewide regulation of
these subjects. Failure to comply with any of the provisions of such
statutes or code provisions shall constitute a violation of this article.
[Amended 11-26-2019 by Ord. No. 3701]
A. Scope. Except as provided in Subsection
B below, this section applies to electrical wiring installations.
B. Exclusions. This chapter does not cover any of the following electrical
wiring installations:
(1) Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating buildings,
railway rolling stock, aircraft, or automotive vehicles other than
mobile homes and recreational vehicles.
(2) Installations for generation, transformation, or distribution of
power used exclusively by railways for signaling and communication
purposes.
(3) Installations of communication equipment under exclusive control
of communication utilities, located outdoors or in building spaces
used exclusively for such installations.
(4) Installations in manufactured homes, other than electrical wiring
alterations in existing manufactured homes.
(5) Installations under the exclusive control of an electric utility,
or an electric cooperative where such installations meet any of the
following situations:
(a)
Consist of service drops or service laterals, and associated
metering.
(b)
Are located in legally established easements or right-of-ways
designated by public service commissions, utility commissions, or
other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for such installations.
(c)
Are on property owned or leased by the electric utility for
the purpose of communications, metering, generation, control, transformation,
transmission, storage, or distribution of electric energy.
(6) Installations for the purpose of street or area lighting owned and
under exclusive control of electrical utilities or municipalities
where located outdoors on property owned or leased by the utility;
on or along public highways, streets, roads, or similar public thoroughfares;
or outdoors on private property by established rights such as easements
shall comply with this chapter or chapter PSC 114.
At the time of the issuance of a permit the Electrical Inspector
may require the manufacturer, owner, installer or user of electrical
equipment to submit plans (drawings), data and specifications, schedules
or literature, information, materials, samples or tests as may be
necessary to determine the fitness of equipment for safe installation
and use.
[Amended 11-26-2019 by Ord. No. 3701]
Upon the completion of the wiring of any building or before
any wiring is hidden from view, the person doing the same shall notify
the Electrical Inspector and he shall inspect the installation within
two business days of the time such notice is received. If, upon inspection,
it is found that such installation is fully in compliance with this
article and does not constitute a hazard of life or property, he shall
approve the same and authorize concealment of such wiring or connections
for electrical service. If the installation is incomplete or not strictly
in accordance with this article, he shall issue orders to the person
installing the same to remove all hazards and make the necessary changes.
Concealment of electric work before inspection or failure to comply
with such orders of the Electrical Inspector shall constitute a violation
of this article.
[Amended 4-24-2014 by Ord. No. 3544]
When the Electrical Inspector condemns all or part of the electrical
installation in any building, the owner, within five days after receiving
written notice from the Electrical Inspector, may file a petition
in writing for review of the action of the Electrical Inspector with
the Chief Inspector, upon receipt of which the Chief Inspector shall
at once proceed to determine whether the electrical construction complied
with this article and within three days shall make a decision in accordance
with his/her findings. Legal proceedings may thereafter be taken by
any party aggrieved by such determination.
Where other provision is not made in this article for arbitration
or other appeal from a determination of the Electrical Inspector,
any determination so made by such officer may be appealed by any party
aggrieved as provided in Ch. 68, Wis. Stats.
This article shall not be construed as imposing any liability
on the part of the City for damage to anyone injured or any property
destroyed by any defect in any building or equipment or any plumbing
or any electrical wiring or equipment or by reason of any inspection
made by any City officer or employee.
Persons associated with crafts other than electrical and functioning
in their native pursuits shall in no way alter the approved character
of an electrical installation by the placement of materials or equipment
in too close proximity, by concealment, by making inaccessible or
in any way affecting the approved electrical installation so as to
render it in violation of this article.
[Amended 4-24-2014 by Ord. No. 3544]
Except as otherwise provided, any person, firm, corporation or organization found to be in violation of any provision of this article or any rule or order promulgated herein shall be subject to a penalty as provided in §
1-4 of this Code.