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73 of 1912 - City Electrician _.- ROLL, CALL 1 4' Salt Lake City, Utah, .-- -k— .1 _ __.._191'► : VOTING Yes 1 No I 1 move that -"r g`. e,rt"'s`"y. - " m,. -"K „_ r Keyser „. Lawrence 171 / i' Morris 1°6' -- - � � s Mr.Chairman RESULT - - I _..,I AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE creating the office of City Electrician, defining his duties, establishing rules and regulations for the installation, operation, inspection and maintenanoe of electric light and power wires, apparatus and appliances, providing fees for permits and inspections, fixing penalties for violation of provisions of this ordinance and repealing all ordinances and resolutions in conflict 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 experienoe' in eleotrioal work to be City Electrician, who shall hold office until the Municipal Election next following his appointment and until his successor 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 bond to the city in the sum of $2,600.00. SECTION 3. Said City Eleotrioian shall employ, subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners, snob assistants as may be necessary and proper for the parrying 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 oity other than that already received as snob Inspector and Superintendent, and one competent Electrical Inspector who shall receive no compensation or allowance of any r-.t <<s • -2- kind whatsoever from the City. SECTION 4. The City Electrician and his qualified assistants shall be included in the Department of Public Safety, under the general direction of the Commissioner of Public Safety. SECTION 6. (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 oonstruetion, installation and repairs of all eleotrio light or power wiring, fixtures, applianoes and apparatus in, on or running to any building in Salt Lake City, except as herein- after provided. It shall be the duty of the City Electrioian to inspect all electric light and power wiring, fixtures, appliances and apparatus heretofore installed as soon as practicable, and to require the correction of any defects therein which he may consider tax dangerous or apt to cause fire. It is understood that such hereto- fore 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 defects as he deems actually hazardous 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 suoh inspection is made upon request of the owner or user of said wiring, fixtures, apparatus or applianoes, in which case tees as provide for permits for installa- tion of new work in Seotions 6 and R 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 as soon as practicable 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 plaoe. Inspection shall when necessary, be made two or more times during progress of installation; i YI$Y. first, when work is roughed in, and last when work is completed; and it shall be the duty of the City Electrician, or his qualified representative to indicate inspection of any work by a tag or label attached to the service switch wires, and a oertifioate issued to party taking out permit; 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 over or otherwise conceal any electrical wiring until such first inspection tag has been placed. (o) Upon application for inspection of any wiring, apparatus, fixtures or appliances as hereinafter provided the City Eleotrician shall, after inspection and examination, issue a certificate showing the result of such examination and require to be made the necessary corrections. (d) If the City Electrician or his qualified representative shall be unable to inspect any electrical work within 24 hours after notice of its completion, he may issue a temporary permit allowing current to be turned on, pending the inspection of such work. (e) If the City Electrician shall find any part of any electric light or poser 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 Electrician shall have the right and power to disconnect such defective wiring, fixtures, $kb► l. appliances or apparatus, and place a embe upon it. He shall at the same time give written notice of such disoonneotion to the owner or occupant of the building. After such disoonneoted wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus have been put into the condition required by this ordinance the seal or seals so planed 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 appliances, wiring,^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 defaoe any seal so placed. SECTION 6. All companies, firms, co-partnerships, corpora- tions or individuals who desire to have electric light or power wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus installed in or on any building (except central power houses and sub-stations belonging to electric light or street railway oompanies operating under a franchise granted by Salt Lake City) shall secure a permit from the City Electrician. In order to secure a permit for the installation of electrical wiring, fixtures, applianoes or apparatus, and before any addition; to, or alteration in any old installation of eleotrioal wiring, fixtures, appliances or apparatus, is made, every company, firm or oo-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 in 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. (b) For eleotrio signs, ten oents per square foot for each and every illuminated side, with a maximum oharge of $6.00. (c) One dollar for the first motor or generator and fifty cents for each additional machine, subject to a maxim fee of ten dollars. Motor of one half horse power or less, and heating and cooking outlets to be covered under the provisions for lighting installation. (d) For inspecting any eleotrioal wiring, fixtures, apparatus, appliances or fifty Dollar installation for which no fee is herein provided, the City Electrician shall caxge the sum of One D o Dante for the first hour and at the rate of seventy-five Dents 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. (a)._All electrical wiring installation, or electrical fixtures, apparatus or appliances for furnishing light, heat or power, telegraph,tllephone, district messenger and other eleotrioal work 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 5. in the list of electrical fittings, dated October 1911, published by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, which rules and. re- quirements, and. lists as applied above are hereby made a, part of this ordinance. (b) Service switches, cutouts and meters must not be placed in bath rooms, and all switches, sockets and other electric- al fixtures and apparatus must be located so that they cannot be reached by one standing in a bathtub. (c) All wires in basements or cellars, unless other- wise concealed or protected, must be run in conduits, and. no metal covered sockets will be permitted therein. All drop cords in basements or cellars must be of what is termed "reinforced cord". (d) Each flat or dwelling place in an apartment house, flat building, or building designed for two or more dwellings shall be provided with an independent service, unless the cutouts or meters are grouped in a cabinet or closet opening into a public hallway so as to be readily accessible at all times. (e) Every building other than a private dwelling here- after erected, in which electricity is used for light, heat or power, shall have the supply wires, when from underground mains, ester 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 switches 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-partner- ship 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 contain the date of such inspection and an outline of the result; and it stall be un- lawful for any person, firm, co-partnership or corporation to turn 6. on or connect the current with such installation until said cer- tificate 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 Electri- cian and securing a permit therefor. SECTION 10. The City Electrician shall have the right to enter any premises at all all reasonable hours for the purpose of inspecting 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. SECTION 12. This ordinance shall not be construed to relieve or lessen the responsibility of any person owning, operat- ing or installing any electrical wires, fixtures, appliances, apparatus, construction or equipment for damages to any one in- jured 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 13. Any person, firm, co-partnership or corpora- tion who shall fail, negle$'t or refuse to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed the sum of fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the city jail for a period. of not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and im- prisonment in the discretion of the court. SECTION 14. Every days continuation of a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed. to be . 7. a separate and distinct offense. SECTION 15. All ordinances and resolutions or parts of ordinances and resolutions in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 16. This ordinance shall take effect one month after its first publication. // • Passed by the Board of Commissioners of / Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12, 1912. 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