The building inspector of the city shall serve as the electrical inspector until such time as the city commission shall by resolution establish an office of electrical inspector.
(Ordinance 483, sec. 7-43, adopted 8/12/86)
(a) 
The electrical inspector shall inspect and test electrical installations and systems in all consumer installations when he has reason to believe the same are unsafe, improper, or do not comply with applicable ordinances.
(b) 
The electrical inspector shall inspect all installations, alterations and repairs of electrical work in consumer installations as hereinafter set out.
(c) 
The electrical inspector shall, upon determining that unsafe, improper or unlawful consumer installations exist, immediately notify the owner of said premises or his agent and/or the electrician performing work on said premises, in writing, specifying the exact deficiency existing and shall allow said parties a reasonable time to correct said deficiency. If corrective action is not begun immediately, or if the deficiency is not corrected within the prescribed time, the electrical inspector shall, if he believes the public welfare is endangered, order the electricity supply to said premises to be discontinued.
(d) 
The electrical inspector and his assistants shall, when in the performance of their duties and as far as may be necessary for the performance of their duties, have the right to enter any consumer’s building at all reasonable hours for the purpose of making any tests or inspections of the electrical wiring and appliances therein contained.
(e) 
The electrical inspector shall keep or cause to be kept a record of permits, licenses, and inspections required under this article; he shall also keep a record of all condemnations of electrical installations.
(f) 
The electrical inspectors shall stop the installation, alteration, operation or repair of any electrical work on or in consumers’ premises whenever, in the inspector’s opinion, the work is being done in a reckless, careless or unsafe manner or in a manner which violates the provisions of this article. Upon determining that particular work should stop, the inspector shall post a notice to that effect on the consumer’s premises, and thereafter no person shall proceed with the installation until the inspector has cancelled the stop work notice.
(g) 
The electrical inspector shall turn over to the city all payments received by the office of the electrical inspector and the board of electrical examiners.
(1978 Code, sec. 7-44)
Neither the electrical inspector nor any of his assistants shall, when acting in good faith and without malice, be liable for damages arising by reason of duties performed under the provisions of this article.
(1978 Code, sec. 7-45)