[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Cheltenham 6-15-2004 by Ord. No. 2059-04.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction — See Ch. 110.
Fire prevention — See Ch. 151.
Housing standards — See Ch. 167.
Plumbing standards — See Ch. 209.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance repealed former Ch. 135, Electrical
Standards, adopted 12-29-1977 by Ord. No. 1431 as Ch. 6, Art. VI of the Cheltenham
Code, as amended.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall, for the
purpose of this chapter, have the meanings herein indicated:
Any person who shall have qualified as an apprentice electrician
and registered in accordance with the terms of this chapter and under the
rules and regulations of the Examining Board.
Any person who shall have qualified as a chief plant electrician
and registered in accordance with the terms of this chapter and under the
rules and regulations of the Examining Board.
Any person who shall have passed a journeyman electrician's
examination and qualified and registered in accordance with the terms of this
chapter and under the rules and regulations of the Examining Board.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall have qualified
and registered as a master electrical contractor in accordance with the terms
of this chapter and under the rules and regulations of the Examining Board
hereinafter created.
Includes all electrical apparatus, electric appliances, electric
wiring, electrical fixtures and all electrical supplies of whatsoever kind
or nature used as a part of any installation for the transmission or consumption
of electrical energy, and including the electrical installation and apparatus
used in connection with and adjunctive to domestic oil burners and mechanical
stokers; provided, however, that said terms shall not include incandescent
lamps, domestic electrical appliances severable from the freehold without
material damage thereto, public utility company kilowatt meters, radio broadcast
or receiving apparatus, television broadcast or receiving apparatus or automotive
electrical equipment; provided, further, that nothing in this chapter shall
apply to work performed by employees of a public utility while engaged in
regular line of duty for the utility company by whom they are employed. "Regular
line of duty" shall mean that work which is essential or incidental to the
delivery of energy to customers of said public utility.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall have qualified
and registered as an oil burner service dealer in accordance with the terms
of this chapter and under the rules and regulations of said Examining Board.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall have qualified
and registered as a refrigeration service dealer in accordance with the terms
of this chapter and under the rules and regulations of said Examining Board.
There is hereby created and established an Electrical Examining Board,
hereinafter referred to as "Examining Board."
A.
There shall be an Electrical Examining Board consisting
of four members. three of said members shall be from the public at large,
and one member shall be the Township Director of the Department of Engineering,
Zoning and Inspections, who shall also serve as Secretary of the Electrical
Examining Board.
B.
The terms of office, organization, powers and duties
of the Board shall be as set forth in this chapter.
A.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in
the business or occupation of a master electrical contractor, a chief plant
electrician or an apprentice electrician, as defined in this chapter, shall
apply to the Electrical Examining Board for a license and registration as
herein required, and said applicant shall present himself before said Electrical
Examining Board at a time and place fixed by said Board wherein his qualifications
and knowledge shall be inquired into. If the Board shall find, upon due examination,
that the applicant presenting himself has a reasonable knowledge of electricity
and the natural laws and functions of electrical energy and of the provisions
of the Regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for Electric
Wiring and Apparatus (in accordance with the current issue of the National
Electrical Code) and is possessed of skill and knowledge in matters appertaining
to the science of electricity sufficient to discharge the profession of a
master electrical contractor, chief plant electrician, oil burner service
dealer, refrigeration service dealer, journeyman electrician or apprentice
electrician, as herein defined, then said Electrical Examining Board, upon
proof of the payment of the fee herein provided, shall issue to said person,
firm or corporation, without further charge, a license as master electrical
contractor, chief plant electrician, oil burner service dealer, refrigeration
service dealer, journeyman electrician or apprentice electrician, as the case
may be. Such license shall continue in full force and effect following its
issuance to and including the 31st day of December in the year of its issuance,
unless sooner revoked.
B.
Applications for examination and license shall be accompanied
with proof that the proper fee, as set forth by resolution of the Board of
Commissioners, has been paid the Township Manager for the use of the Township.
C.
Any applicant who is unsuccessful in passing the examination
may be permitted to take a reexamination not less than 60 days after the date
of the unsuccessful examination and without payment of any additional fee.
If he shall be unsuccessful upon reexamination, he shall not apply for further
examination for a period of six months, and such reapplication shall be accompanied
with the proof of the payment of the fee as if the application were an original
application.
D.
The license here provided shall expire December 31 of
the year for which it is issued.
E.
A master electrical contractor, chief plant electrician,
oil burner service dealer, refrigeration service dealer, journeyman electrician
or apprentice electrician, as the case may be, desiring to continue to practice
the profession or trade for the year following the expiration of his license
shall, between the first and 31st days of December of each and every year,
surrender his license for the then-current year to the Secretary of the Examining
Board, who shall forthwith, upon proof of the payment of the fee hereinafter
provided, issue to the applicant a proper license for the ensuing year.
F.
License fees to be set by resolution of the Board of
Commissioners shall be paid to the Manager for the use of the Township.
A.
The Middle Department Association of Fire Underwriters,
Keystone Electrical Service, Inc. and such other inspecting agency or agencies
as shall be approved by the Township (hereinafter called "inspecting agencies"),
upon qualification as herein provided, shall be and they are hereby designated
as the sole inspecting agencies to make inspections of the electrical wiring
system equipment and apparatus, and the manner of installation thereof, in
Cheltenham Township, for the purposes of and as provided herein.
B.
In the event that any inspecting agency shall fail or
refuse to file the certificate of inspection and approval with the Building
Inspector or shall fail to comply in any respect with the provisions of this
chapter, the designation of such agency may be summarily rescinded by the
Board of Commissioners upon five days' written notice thereof.
No electrical wiring system may be used or current supplied until a
certificate of inspection and approval has been issued by an approved inspecting
agency acting in coordination with the Building Inspector. Such certificate
shall be filed with the Building Inspector not later than 30 days after completion
of the installation of the electrical wiring system. No permit is required
from the Building Inspector for the installation of electrical wiring, and
the contract or estimated cost of an installed wiring system shall not be
included in the calculations necessary to arrive at the building permit fee.
Unless and until revised as hereinafter provided, the schedules of fees
heretofore established by the approved inspecting agencies are hereby approved
and adopted as schedules of reasonable fees to be paid to the approved inspecting
agencies for required inspection. Inspecting agencies shall qualify to act
as such inspecting agencies to make inspection and to receive fees for inspection
by filing with the Township Manager within 30 days from the effective date
of this chapter the written acceptance by the inspecting agency and its agreement
to act as an inspecting agency for the purpose of and as provided in this
chapter. When so qualified, the inspecting agency until such time as, upon
at least 120 days' prior written notice to the Township Manager, it shall
elect to cease so acting; provided, however, that if the Township shall desire
to terminate its approval of the inspecting agency, the Township may at any
time give 120 days' written notice to the inspecting agency that its
designation as an approved inspecting agency hereunder has been terminated.
Said schedules of fees hereby approved shall remain in full force and effect
and shall not be subject to revision by the inspecting agencies unless and
until any revised fees proposed by the inspecting agencies shall first be
filed with the Township and approved by the Board of Commissioners. At least
three copies of the schedules of fees, as now in effect or hereafter revised,
shall be kept on file in the office of the Building Inspector and be available
for public inspection during regular business hours.
