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AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION BY REFERENCE OF THE
NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE STANDARD OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE
C� UNDERWRITERS FOR ELECTRIC WIRING AND APPARATUS FOR THE CITY OF
L GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, FOR CREATING THE OFFICE OF ELECTRICAL INSPECTORS,
FOR LICENSING OF ELECTRICIANS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND REGULATING
THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC WIRING AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND DECLAR-
ING AN EMERGENCY.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas.
Section 1. Adq flons of Electric Code. That there is hereby adopted by the City
of Georgetown, Texas for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations of the construction,
alteration, removal and maintenance of electric wiring and apparatus, including permits
and penalties, that certain electric code known as the National Electrical Code of the
National Fire Protection Assocation, being particularly the 1975 edition thereof and the
whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or
amended, of which not less than three (3) copies have been and now are filediin the office
of the City Clerk of the City of Georgetown, Texas, and the same are hereby adopted and
incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this ordinace
shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the construction, alteration,
maintenance or removal of all electric wiring and apparatus within the corporate limits of
the City of Georgetown, Texas..
Section 2.. INSPECTOR. ,_There is hereby created the office of Electrical Inspector
who shall be appointed y tF- Mayor; .subject to the confirmation of the City Council. The
Electrical Inspector shall have had at least two (2) years experience as an electrician, shall
be of good moral character, shall be versed in the approved methods of electrical construction
for safety of life and property and the National Electrical Code. He shall receive such
compensation as the Council may decide.
Section 3.. DUTIES. The Electrical Inspector shall have the duty and is hereby authorized,
empowered, and directed to regulate and determine the placing of electric wires or other
appliances for electric lights, heat or power in the City of Georgetown, 'Texas, and to cause
all such wires, appliances or apparatus to be placed, constructed, and guarded as not to
cause fires or accidents, endangering life or property, and to be constructed as to keep to a
minimum the loss or waste of electric current.-'
It shall be the duty of the City Electrical Inspector to enforce all provisions of this
ordinance and he is hereby granted the authority to enter all buildings in the City of George-
town, Texas, in the performance of his duties between the hours of eight a.m. and five p.m.
daily, except that in emergency and within the limits of reason, the Electrical Inspector
may enter buildings for such purposes at other than the designated hours.
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It shall be the duty of the City Electrical Inspector to inspect and/or test all electrical
work and equipment or apparatus for compliance with the Code whenever electric wiring,
appliances, or apparatus shall be defective or hazardous through irrproper manufacture of
improper or insufficient insulation or for any other reason, he shall at once,- cause the
removal of such defect or defects, at the expense of the owners of such wiring, appliance
or apparatus.
Section 4. PERMITS. No installation, alteration, or removal shall be made in/or
of the wiring of any ui ding or structure for light, heat or power or to increase the load
of energy carried by such wires or equipment, nor shall any building'or structure be wired
for electric lights, appliances, motors, apparatus, or heating devices nor alterations made
thereto without a written permit therefore being first obtained from the City license issuing
clerk by the person, firm, or corporation having direct charge of such installation.
Section 5. INSPECTION. Upon the completion of the wiring, installation or alter-
ation of any building or structure for light, heat, power, applionce, armpparatus, it shall
be the duty of the person, firm, or corporation having direct charge of such to notify -the
City Electrical Inspector who shall, as early as possible, inspect such wiring, installation,
appliance, and apparatus and is installed, altered and constructed in compliance with the
permit and in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance, he shall execute a
certificate of satisfactory inspection, which shall contain the date of such inspection and
the result of his examination, but no such certificate shall be issued unless such electric
wiring, motors, heating devices, appliances, and apparatus be in strict accord with the
rules and requirements and the spirit of this ordinance, nor shall current be turned on such
installation, equipment, appliance, motors, heating device, and apparatus until said cert
ificate be issued. The amount of fee or charge to be made for such inspections and certif-
icate to be fixed and determined by the City Council. .
Section 6. STANDARDS. All electrical construction, all materials, appliances,
motors, heating devices, and apparatus used in connection with electrical work and the
operation of all electrical apparatus within the City of Georgetown shall conform to the
rules and requirements of the National Electrical Code current when work is performed or
equipment and apparatus installed, however, the necessity, good service and said results
often require larger sizes of wire, more branch circuits, and better types of equipment than
the minimum which is specified in the National Electrical Code. Therefore, the City
Electrical Inspector supervising the enforcement of this code will have the responsibility and
authority for making interpretations of the rules, for deciding upon the approval of equip-
ment, materials, construction and for granting the special permission contemplated in a
number of the rules and the City Electrical Inspector, where necessary, shall follow the
code precedure for securing official interpretations of the code.
Section 7. LICENSING OF ELECTRICIANS. Any persons, firm, or corporation
desiring to engage in the business of electrical construction or of the installation of wiring and
apparatus for electric lights, ,appliances, heating or power in the City of Georgetown, shall,
before doing so, obtain a Master Electrician License, the fee for which will be $50.00per
year which shall be paid into the City Treasury before such Master Electrican License shall
become effective.
Section 8. BOND REQUIRED. Every person, firm or corporation doing electrical
business in the City of Georgetown shall execute and deliver to the City a bond with a
surety bonding company in the sum of $1,000.00, to indemnify the city of any citizen for any
damage caused by the failure of such person, firm, or corporation doing the electrical work
to comply strictly with the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 9. QUALIFICATION. No Master or .Journeyman Electrician License shall
be issued until the party applying for same has given satisfactory, evidence to the City Elec-
trical Inspector of his or their experience and ability to do said electrical work in a safe
and satisfactory manner. No permit for installation -or alteration of any wiring, heating
devices, motors, appliances and apparatus shall be issued until the license and bond herein
required have been obtained.
Section 10. FAILURE TO COMPLY. Any person, firm or corporation who shall
fail to correct any defect or defects in is or their work or to meet the required standards
after having been given notice of the unfit condition by the City Electrical Inspector, within
a reasonable time, shall be refused any other permit until such defect or defects have been
corrected and shall be subject to revocation of license for continual defective work or
either upon conviction for violation of the provision of this ordinance.
Section 11 Upon failure to comply with this ordinance the City Electrical Inspector
shall have authority after due notice to cut out electric current in the locality concerned
Section 12 PENALTIES Any person firm or corporation found guilty of violating
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten ($10 00)
dollars nor more than one hundred ($100 00) dollars together with the costs of such prosecution
or by imprisonment Each day during which violation con tinues shall be a separate offense
Section 13 LICENSE TO INDIVIDUAL Any individual desiring to perform his own
electrical work personally shall not be required to make the required bond or to obtain the
requred license but shall be required to obtain the regular permit for that particular job Such
work done by an individual must be done by him personally on his own particular job and not
be a way of performing a service to the public generally
Section 14 CONFLICTING ORDINANCE REPEALED All ordinances or parts of ordin
ances conflicting with any of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed
Section 15 SAVING CLAUSE Nothing in this ordinance or the code hereby adopted
shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court or any rights
acquired or liability incurred nor anycause or acuses of action accrued or existing under
any act or ordinance repealed hereby Nor shall any right or remedy or any character to
lost impaired or affected by this ordinance
Section 16 VALIDITY The invalidity of any section or provision of this ordinance
or of the code hereby adopted shall not invalidate other sections or provisionsthereof
Section 17 EMERGENCY CLAUSE It is found as a matter of fact that an emergency
exists and that it is necessary forte immedate preservation of public health safety and welfare
of the inhabitants of the City of Georgetown that this electric code be in full force and effect
from and after its passage and publication as required in the State Statutes
DATE PASSED September 8 1975
ATTEST
oe E Crawford Mayor
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City Secretary