67 of 1912 - City Electrician ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE creating the office of City Electrician,
defining his duties, establishing rules and regulations for the
installation, operation, inspection and maintenance of electric
light and power wires, apparatus and applianoes, providing fees
for permits and inspeotions, fixing penalties for violation of
provisions of this Ordinance and repealing all ordinanoes and
resolutions in oonfliot herewith.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of Salt
Lake City, Utah:
Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
shall appoint a man experienced in electrical work to be City
Electrician, who shall hold office until the Municipal Eleotion
next following his appointment and until his suooessor is duly
appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the Board of
Commissioners. He shall receive a salary of *1,800.00 per year,
payable monthly, as are the salaries of other city officers, in full
for all services rendered the city.
Section 2. The City Electrician shall; before assuming
the duties of his office, take and subscribe to the Constitutional
oath of office and shall furnish bonds to the city in the sum of
$2,500.00.
Section 3. Said City Electrician shall employ, subject
to the approval of the Board of Commissioners, such assistants as
may be necessary and proper for the carrying out of the provisions
of this ordinance. The City Electrician shall be empowered to
appoint as assistants the Inspector of the Fire Department and the
Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Service, who shall receive no
compensation from the city other than that already received as
such Inspector and Superintendent, and one competent Electrical
Inspector who shall receive no compensation or allowance of any
kind whatsoever from the City.
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Section 4. The-City Electrician and hie qualified
assistants shall be included in the Department of Public Safety,
under the general direction of the Commissioner of Public Safety.
Section 4. (a) It shall be the duty of the City Electri-
cian to attend to the enforcement of this ordinance and to inspect
and supervise the construction, installation and repairs of all
electric light or power wiring, fixtures, appliances and
apparatus in or on any building in Salt Lake City, except as
hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the City Electrician
to inspect all electric light and power wiring, f ixturea, appliances
and apparatus heretofore installed as soon as practicable, and to
require the correction of any defects therein which he may consider
dangerous or apt to cause fire. It is understood that such here-
tofore installed wiring, fixtures, appliances and apparatus need
not necessarily be made to conform strictly to all the provisions
of the National Electrical Code, but the said City Electrician must
require the correction of such defeots as he deems actually hazard-
ous to life or property.
It is understood that no fee shall be charged for the
inspection of electric wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus
heretofore installed except where such inspection is made upon
request of the owner or user of said wiring, fixtures,wepparatus
or appliances, in which case fees as provided icr permits for
installation of new work in sections B and 7 hereof, shall be paid
by the person, firm or corporation requiring the inspection.
(b) It shall be the duty of the City Electrician
to inspect any and all work for which permits have been issued
within forty-eight hours (Sundays and Holidays not included)
after time of notice, in writing by the contractor, that the work
is ready for the inspection, which will not be considered ready for
inspection and covering until all inclosed plumbing, steam heating,
furnace work and gas fittings are in place. Inspection shall ,
when necessary, be made two or more times during progress of
installation; first, when work is roughed in, and last when work
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is completed; and it shall be the duty of the City Electrician
to indicate inspection of any work by a tag or label attaoged to a
prominent part of the work; said tag or label shall state date and
whether first or final inspection has been made, and it shall be
unlawful for any workman or other person to lath or otherwise
conceal any eleotrioal wiring until such first inspection tag has
been placed.
(e) Upon application for inspection of any wiring,
apparatus, fixtures or appliances as hereinafter provided the City
Electrician shall, after inspection and examination, issue a certi-
ficate showing the result of such examination and require to be made
the necessary corrections.
(d) If the City Electrician shall find any part of any
electric light or power wiring, appliances , apparatus or fixtures
in or upon any building in Salt Lake City to have been installed
without permit, or not in accordance with the provisions of this
ordinance, or to be dangerous to life or property, the City Elec-
trician shall have the right and power to disconnect such dofeotive
wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus, and place a seal upon it.
He shall at the same time give written notice of such disconnection
to the owner or occupant of the building. After such disconnected
wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus have been put into the
condition required by this ordinance the seal or seals so placed
shall be removed by the City Electrician.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to use any current in, through or by means of such disconnected
wiring, appliances, apparatus or fixtures, or to attach other wires
for the supply of current to such disconnected wiring, fixtures,
appliances or apparatus, or to remove, break or deface anys cal so
placed.
Section 6. All companies, firms, co-partnerships, corpora-
tions or individuals (except public telephone, telegraph and messen-
ger call companies operating under a. legal franchise granted by
Salt Lake City) who desire to have electric light or power wiring,
fixtures, appliances or apparatus installed in or on any building
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(except central power houses and sub-stations belonging to electric
light or street railway companies operating under a franchise) shall
secure a permit from the City Electrician.
In order to secure a permit for the installation of
electrical wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus, and before
any addition to, or alteration in any old installations of electrical
wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus, is made, every Company,
firm or co-partnership, or individual, shall make a written applica-
tion to the City Electrician on blanks supplied for that purpose
by said City and shall pay the said electrician, in advance, all
fixed fees, the amount, or amounts named by the following schedule.
Section 7. (a) For electric light wiring, one dollar
for the first ten outlets and five cents for each additional outlet,
the word "outlet" to be interpreted as including a switch outlet
and switch controlling same, or a light outlet and the fixtures or
drop to be attached to same.
jb) For electric signs, fifty cents per
square foot for each and every illuminated side.
II) One dollar for the first motor or
generator and fifty cents for each additional machine, subjectoto
a maximum fee of five dollars. Motor of one half horse power and
under to be covered under the provisions of lighting installation.
(d) For inspecting any electrical wiring,
- fixtures, apparatus, appliances or installation for which no fee is
herein provided, the City Electrioian shall charge the sum of One
Dollar and fifty cents for the first hour and at the rate of
seventyfive cents per hour for additional time given in making such
inspection; provided further that no inspection or fee shall be
less than fifty cents.
Section 8. All electrical wiring installations, or
eleo`rioal fixtures, apparatus or appliances for furnishing light,
heat or power, introduced into, or placed in or on any building or
structure in Salt Lake City, shall be in conformity with the rules
and requirements of the National Electrical Code of 1911, and all
fittings and materials used in such installations must be sanctioned
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in the List of the Electrical fittings, approved by the Underwriters
National Electric Association, dated October 1911, which rules and
requirements, and lists as applied above are hereby made a part of
the requirements of this ordinance.
Every building other than a private dwelling hereafter
erected, in which electricity is used for light, heat or power,
shall have the supply wires, when from underground mains, enter the
building at some convenient location on the ground floor, readily
accessible to police or firemen, and said supply wires to be provided
at this location with main cut-off switohee as few in number as
conditions will allow, so arranged that all current for light, heat
or power, can be cut off from the building.
Section 9. Upon the completion of the installation
of any electrical wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus ,
in or on any building it shall be the duty of the corporation, co-
partnership or firm or individual doing same to notify the City
Electrician, who shall at once inspect same and if approved by him
he shall issue a certificate of proper inspection which shall con-
tain the date of such inspection and an outline of the result; and
it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership or corpora-
tion to turn on or connect the current with such installation until
said certificate shall be issued; and it shall be unlawful to make
any change, alteration or extension in or to the installation of any
electrical wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus, in or on any
building after inspection without notifying said City Electrician
and securing a permit therefor.
Section 10. The City Electrician shall have the right to
enter any premises at all reasonable hours for the purpose of in-
specting same.
Section 11. "The City Electrician" shall, for the pur-
poses of this Ordinance, except in Sections numbers one and two
hereof, mean the City Electrician and his qualified assistants.
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Section 12. This ordinance shall not be construed to
relieve or lessen the responsibility of any person owning, operating
or installing any electrical wires, fixtures, appliances, apparatus,
construction or equipment for damages to any one injured or damaged
either in person or property by any defect therein; nor shall the said
City or any Agent thereof be held as assuming any such liability by
reason of inspection authorized herein or certificate of inspection
' issued by the City. Electrician.
Section l0. Any person, firm, co-partnership or corpora-
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tion who shall $icily neglaot or refuse to comply *1t the'4igovisions
of this ordinance, ,or who $hall violate any of the pro7+i i 9s of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemek r 04.41pon
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conviction the eof ,shall bid punished by a fine not'Ptt W'poeea 'the
.sun of a dollars orb .imprisonment,, i`i1 the C .t$r Jail
for a period of not more than day*, or by both
' such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Section 14. Every day's continuation of a violation of
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed to be a
separate and distinct offence.
Section 16. All ordinances and resolutions or parts of
ordinances and resolutions in conflict herewith are hereby repealed
to the extent of such confliction.
Section 16. This ordinance, hall take effect one month
after its first publication.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah, this day of 1912.
Recorder.
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