[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
A. Except
as otherwise provided in this Section, no person shall do electrical
work of any kind, install any wiring or agree to do any electrical
or wire installation, either by contract or on a time-and-wage basis
or by employment of some other person, who is not a duly licensed
electrician to do the work or assume to direct or supervise any electrical
or wiring work in the City unless he/she shall then hold an unrevoked
electrician's license issued to him/her by the City as provided in
this Chapter. All licensed master, journeyman and apprentice electricians
must carry their current electrician's license (including the name
of their employer) in their possession on the job site at all times.
Failure to produce a valid license upon demand by any City Official
shall result in a stop work order until the proper documentation is
produced.
B. In
order to become a duly licensed electrician, a person must first obtain
a certificate of competency from the City Clerk as a journeyman electrician,
unless such person is presently licensed in good standing with another
municipal, County or State government.
C. Webb
City will grant an electrician's certificate of competency in lieu
of satisfactory completion of the Block Test examination, provided
the applicant for electrical contractor's license is presently licensed
in good standing in a City with which this City has a reciprocal licensing
agreement.
D. A person
who is not a licensed electrician but who is employed by an electrician
who is licensed, as provided in this Chapter, may do electrical work
for such licensed electrician if such work is done by him/her under
the continuous and immediate supervision of such licensed electrician.
Such employee shall comply at all times with all provisions of this
Chapter other than the one requiring electrical workers to have licenses.
E. A journeyman
electrician who is a full-time wage earner or salaried employee of
an industrial plant in this City, who does electrical work only for
his/her employer and in his/her electrical work no health hazards
are involved, shall not be required to have an electrician's license,
but he/she shall comply at all times with the provisions of this Chapter
in all other respects.
F. The
owner of a property may himself/herself install wiring to serve such
property and he/she may repair wiring already serving such property
if the wiring does not and will not serve a dwelling and if he/she
has obtained the required permit for such work; or if the wiring to
be installed or repaired does or will serve a dwelling, he/she may
do the work himself/herself if all the following facts and conditions
then exist:
1. The owner is to do all the work himself/herself without the help
of any person other than a duly licensed electrician;
2. The dwelling is a single-family dwelling;
3. The owner is not building such dwelling or having it built, for sale;
4. The dwelling is not to be sold for at least one (1) year after the
completion of the electrical work;
5. The owner has applied for a permit to do such electrical work; and
6. The owner, in doing the work, will comply with all applicable requirements
of this Chapter and, in particular, will duly submit his/her work
for inspection by the City Electrical Inspector.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
A. Every
person desiring to obtain an electrician's license such as is required
by this Chapter to engage in electrical work in this City shall make
application to the City according to the following procedure:
1. Present to the City Clerk an application, upon a form prescribed
and approved by the City, for an electrician's certificate of competency
or, when applicable, an electrician's license from another City which
has entered into a reciprocal licensing agreement with this City.
2. Application for an electrician's certificate of competency shall
be made to the office of City Clerk. The Board shall consider the
experience, training and qualifications of the applicant in addition
to the written examination required by this Chapter and, if satisfactory,
the application for an electrician's certificate shall be approved,
provided that where the application is made by a firm, partnership,
association or corporation, the issuance of a certificate of competence
to the person actually intending to do the work shall be deemed sufficient
compliance with the requirements of this Chapter.
3. The examination for an electrician's certificate of competency shall
include the written examination known as the Pro Metric Test or any
other test deemed to be substantially the same and adequate by the
Electrical Inspector.
4. The examination required under this Chapter shall be held within
thirty (30) days of an applicant's request to the City Clerk that
he/she desires to be examined. If the City Clerk shall find an applicant
unqualified to obtain a certificate of competency, he/she shall not
be entitled to reapply until the lapse of six (6) months after the
examination.
5. Upon obtaining the certificate of competency or its equivalent, the
applicant shall tender to the City Clerk with his/her application
the license fee which shall apply for the remainder of the calendar
year for which the license is sought.
6. In conjunction with his/her application and before the application
shall be acted upon, an applicant shall submit to the City Clerk proof
of his/her having obtained comprehensive general contractor's bodily
injury liability insurance providing for a limit of not less than
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for all damages arising
out of bodily injuries to or death of one (1) person and subject to
that limit for each person, a total limit of three hundred thousand
dollars ($300,000.00) for all damages arising out of bodily injuries
to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident and
comprehensive general contractor's property damage liability insurance
providing for a limit of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00)
for all damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property
in any one (1) accident and subject to that limit per accident, a
total aggregate limit of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00)
for all damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property
during the policy period. This insurance must cover below-grade damage
and be in full force during the entire construction process and further
be with a company approved by the City; and such insurance shall cover
the licensee and all employees of the licensee who may perform work
within the City under the provisions of this Chapter.
8. Each electrical contractor shall file a certificate showing that
he/she has Workmen's Compensation insurance if, under the laws of
the State, he/she is required to carry such insurance.
9. Failure to comply with any of the requirements of this Section at
any time during the term of the license shall result in immediate
forfeiture of such license.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
Upon compliance with the provisions of Section
515.200 by an applicant for an electrician's license, the City Clerk shall issue to such applicant a written license and shall authorize him/her, when the required insurance shall have been obtained, to do electrical work within the City.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
Each electrician's license required by this Chapter shall expire with the ending of the calendar year in which it shall have been issued, except that if a person holding an unexpired and unrevoked electrician's license issued by the City Clerk should apply, before the end of such year and in the manner required by Section
515.200, for an electrician's license for the following year, the City Clerk shall issue such license and show thereon that it is for such following year. No electrician's license shall be issued except upon the applicant's complying with the requirements of Section
515.200 regardless of when the application therefore shall be made.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
Every person who is or shall be doing electrical work in this
City and who is required by this Chapter to have an electrician's
license issued by the City Clerk shall pay to the City an annual license
fee as follows:
Electrical contractor: $50.00.
Electrical master: $10.00.
Electrical journeyman: $10.00.
Electrical apprentice: $5.00.
License fees shall be due on or before January first (1st) of
the year for which the license is valid.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
Payment of the electrician's license fee assessed by this Chapter
shall not relieve any merchant electrician from the payment of any
license fees assessed by this Code or any other ordinance of this
City against merchants. The term "merchant electrician" means a person who is or has been an electrician and who, in addition
to doing electrical work, sells fixtures, appliances or merchandise
of any kind.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
No person to whom an electrician's license has been issued for
the City shall cause or permit the certificate to be used in any manner
by another person and no other person except the person to whom the
license has been issued shall use the license in any manner.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
A. In
the event that any holder of an electrician's license shall violate
any of the terms or provisions of this Chapter, his/her certificate
may be suspended or revoked by the City Clerk who shall also give
notice to the holder of such electrician's license that the license
has been suspended or revoked. Such notice shall be in writing. There
shall be sufficient service thereof if it shall be deposited in the
United States mail directed to the last known address of the holder
of the license required by this Chapter.
B. The
holder of an electrician's license which has been suspended or revoked
by the preceding Section shall be entitled to appeal to the City Council
from the ruling of the Board, which appeal will be informally taken,
but in any case must be taken within ten (10) days after said suspension
or revocation of such certificate by the Board. The City Council shall
provide full opportunity for the person whose certificate has been
suspended or revoked to appear before it and show cause why his/her
certificate should not be suspended or revoked.
[Ord. No. 09-7340 §1, 4-27-2009]
An electrician's license shall be issued for a period of one
(1) year and will not be subject to renewal if he/she shall have failed
to engage in his/her trade for more than one (1) year after the issuance
of the license. In the event a license is allowed to expire or is
revoked as herein provided, the holder of such license shall be considered
a new applicant in all respects and shall be required to obtain a
new certificate of competency from the City Clerk.