All buildings or structures such as motels, hotels, dormitories and lodging houses; all public buildings or structures such as schools, churches, auditoriums and gymnasiums; all buildings or structures of institutional occupancy such as hospitals, asylums, nursing homes, children day-care nurseries, detention centers, jails and reformatories; buildings and structures of entertainment such as dance halls, game rooms and skating rinks; business buildings of all kinds including but not limited to retail, wholesale, industrial and manufacturing establishments; all buildings subject to excess moisture and gases; all grain elevators and buildings where hay or grain is stored or kept; and all three-phase installations shall have all electrical wiring encased in approved metal raceways.
(Ordinance 84-464 adopted 2/28/84; 1994 Code, sec. 154.190)
For commercial lighting installations, no circuit over 1,650 watts shall be installed. Not more than five current-consuming outlets shall be installed on a general-use branch circuit.
(Ordinance 84-464 adopted 2/28/84; 1994 Code, sec. 154.191)
In all service stations where gasoline and volatile flammable liquids or liquefied flammable gases are transferred by means of electrical pumps, all electrical installations shall be installed in rigid metallic conduit with the proper types of explosive-proof fittings, boxes, etc. Separate runs of conduit will be required for all gasoline pump installations and no separate lighting or sign circuits will be permitted in these conduits. All other electrical installations in service stations and bulk storage plants shall be done in accordance with the National Electrical Code.
(Ordinance 84-464 adopted 2/28/84; 1994 Code, sec. 154.192; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)
(a) 
Wiring.
All outdoor electric signs must be wired on separate circuits from other lighting. A minimum of no. 12 AWG copper wire shall be used, and the proper number of circuits shall run to supply a multiple circuit installation as outlined in the National Electrical Code.
(b) 
Neon border lighting transformers.
Transformers which supply current to neon border lighting shall be enclosed in a metal box with a weatherproof lid and with working space sufficient to install or to remove the transformers with their wires and appurtenances.
(Ordinance 84-464 adopted 2/28/84; 1994 Code, sec. 154.193)