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O-55-134 ORDINANCE NO. 134 -e AN ORDINANCE AOOPTING THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC OODE AND PROVISIONS FOR EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS FOR LICENSES AS ELECTRICIANS AND FOR A BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND AN ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, AND DETAILING THE METHOD FOR SELECTION OF SAID BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND ELECTRI- CAL INSPECTOR AND DEFINING THEIR DUTIES; REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF ELECTRIC CURRENT TO NEW INSTALLATIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION OF LICENSE OF ELECTRI- CANS UPON NAMED OONDITIONS, AND REQUIRING ELECTRICAL WORK PERMITS, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO. BE IT ORDAINED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY OOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA: SECTION 1. The necessity in the public interest for the provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted is declared as a matter of legislative determination and public policy, and it is further declared that the provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted are within the Police Powers of the City of Clermont and are for the purpose of securing and PTOmoting the public health, comfort, convenience, safety and genu.ral welfare of the City of Clermont and its inhabitants. SECTION 2. The NATIONAL ELECTRIC OODE is hereby adopted and approved, and made a part of this ordinance, and shall henceforth be the minimum standard of practice of licensed electricians in the City of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, this Code, together with all amendments or restrictions thereto as shall hereafter be adopted by the City Council of the City of Clermont shall henceforth be given full force and effect as the law in this municipality. The National Electric Code is hereby amended to include each of the following the same as if originally included therein: (a) Conductors, whether solid or stranded shall not be smaller than Number 12, except for control circuits or switch loops for lighting circuits. (b) Fuse or circuit breaker panels shall not be installed in cabinets or any other place not readily accessible for operation or repair. (c) The use of "BX" type armored cable is prohibited. (d) The minimum size conductor to serve electric ranges shall be Number 6, .except the neutral may be Number 8. Ranges, other than built-in models such as "Thermidore", "Hendi-Cook" and others of like design, shall be provided with receptacle and range cord. Range cord shall meet the same size restriction as circuit wiring. .. (e) The fOllowing shall control the installation of all grounds: (1) Ground wires on all buildings shall be connected at the meter base and the other end shall be attached to the City's water system, if within 50 feet thereof, but being unable to so connect the ground a 3/4" galvanized pipe shall be driven into the ground 10 feet and the ground connected thereto. (2) Ground wires myst be attached to pipes with standard underwriter approved ground clamp. (3) Ground wire shall consist of No. 4 soft bare, solid copper wire or its manufactured equivalent. -e (f) The most recent edition of the Florida Power Corporation I s book or pamphlet covering "Requirements for Electric Service and Meter Installations" shall be adopted as a part of this ordinance and shall be and hereby is declared to be the minimum requirements in all matters covered therein. SECTION 3. Hereafter, all persons, firms or corporations making application to the City of Clermont or to any of its duly authorized officers for a license to engage in the occupation of electrician shall be required before the issuance of such license, to take a written examination based upon the National Electric Code, and pass same with a minimum establi shed by the Examining Board and in effect at time of examination. In order to provide ample opportunity for electricians licensed by the City of Clermont on the date of the passage of this ordinance to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, such electricians shall be allowed until September 30, 1955 at 5 ~'clock P.M. to comply with these examination requirements. New applicants shall be required to take and pass said examination. SECTION 4. govern the membership, or Examining Board: The following provisions herein shall strictly powers and duties of the Board of Examiners (a) The Board composing three (3) members shall be: President of City Council of City of Clermont; Manager of a firm or corporation furnishing electrical power within the City of Clermont; and a Third member appointed by the other members. (b) The first Board of Examiners shall be selected by the City Council within ten (10) days from the passage and adoption of this ordinance, which Board shall serve until the first Regular Meeting of the City Council in January of 1956. Thereafter the membership of the Board shall be appointed, as provided in this section, to serve until the first Regular Meeting of the City Council in the following January of each year after 1956. Vacancy on the Board shall be filled within ten (10) days às provided herein for the selection of the membership of the Board. (c) No person licensed as an electrician under this ordinance, or in any way connected with any person, firm or corporation engaged in the occupation of electrician or electrical contractors or engaged in the sale at retail or wholesale of any electrical wiring, supplies or appliances shall be eligible to serve as a member of this Board. In the event the President of the City Council of the City of Clermont is so engaged or so connected or interested as herein provided then the Council shall select one of their membership to serve as a member of the Board. In the event a manager of a Power Company cannot, for any reason, so serve the City Council shall select another of their choice so qualified to serve. .. (d) Within ten (10) days after their selection or appointment the Board shall meet in the City Hall of the City of Clermont and shall select one of their number as Chairman. The City Clerk of the City of Clermont shall at all times serve as Secretary to the Board whose duty shall be to keep all minutes of each Board Meeting and perform such other duties as directed by the Board. -e The Board shall serve without compensation. The City Council of the City of Clermont, in its, discretion, may compensate the Clerk for work performed in this capacity as Secretary of this Board. All expenses of the Board in the performance of its duties hereunder shall be approved by the City Council before being incurred, and then shall be paid out of the General Fund of the City of Clermont. SECTION 5. The following shall strictly govern all examinations of the Board: (a) The Board shall, for the information of those desiring same, make and provide for distribution all rules, regulations and amendments thereof pertaining to examinations to be conducted under this ordinance. They shall provide application blanks for distribution by the City Clerk of the City of Clermont to those applying for an occupational license as electrician in the City of Clermont under its ordinance governing and regulating the issuance of occupational license as electrician in the City of Clermont. (b) Upon the City Clerk receiving application for license as electrician under this ordinance, he shall notify in writing the Chairman of the Board, and the Board will cause the applicant to be examined in writing wi thin ten (10) days from the date of his application, unless two or more should so apply within any ten (10) day period, in which event, the Board shall set a date for examination, to be held within fifteen (15) days from the date of the first application. (c) All examination questions shall be typed or printed and each applicant shall furnish his own writing material upon which to write the examination in accordance with the regulations of the Board, unless so provided by the Hoard. No examination fee shall be charged. All examinations shall be conducted in the city Hall of said City before the City Clerk, or his appointee. (d) Each applicant's examination shall be preserved by the Board as long as the applicant is licensed under this ordinance. (e) Each applicant passing shall receive within five (5) days his license to engage in the occupation as an electrician in the City of Clermont. Those failing shall be so notified and shall be eilti tled to be re-examined wi thin five (5) days. Any person failing three (3) consecutive examinations shall not be entitled to a re-examination within six (6) months of the last examination. All applicants are entitled to examine their examination paper after graded by the Board (each examination shall be signed by all members of the Board). Any applicant not qualifying for a license under the examination, the applicant may notify the City Council in writing and upon receipt of same said Council shall cause the examination paper, at least two (2) Board Members and the applicant to appear before them when the applicant and the Board shall be fully heard. The applicant may have his attorney attend this meeting. . ~., If the Council shall concur in the grading by the Board, or the up-grading by the Board shall not qualify the applicant to license under this ordinance the applicant shall be entitled to re-examination within five (5) days as herein provided. (f) Each applicant and licensed electrician shall obtain his own copy of the National Electric Code in force and effect at time of his examination and thereafter when same is amended or another code other than the presen~ code is adopted and printed he shall obtain a copy and present same to the City Clerk and/or Secretary of the Board for his endorsement. Failure to obtain same shall disqualify an applicant for examination under the ordinance. -e Failure of a licensed electrician to obtain an amended or subsequent compiled National Electric Code, when so notified by the Board to obtain same, shall not entitle the electrician to be re-licensed by the City of Clermont until same is obtained which must be so obtained wi thin thirty (30) days of notice. If not then so obtained the electrician must then be re-examined in order to qualify for a license under this. ordinance. (g) If an electrician, formerly licensed under this ordinance shall allow one (1) year to lapse without being licensed under the Occupational License ordinance of this City then he shall be required to take an examination as if he were originally applying for a license. SECTION 6. An Electrical Inspector shall be appointed by the City Council within ten (10) days from the passage and adoption of the ordinance and thereafter at the first Regular Meeting of the City Council in January in each year hereafter. His compensation and/or fees shall be set by the City Council but same shall only be based on required inspections by him made under this ordinance, and shall be paid, if required, at the time of the issuance of the permit hereinafter required and provided for. The duties of the Electrical Inspector shall be to make such inspections as may be necessary to determine that henceforth all work done and materials used in electrical wiring shall conform in every respect with the National Electric Code; to approve or disapprove, in writing, such work and materials, and to specify his reasons for disapproval when any disapproval is made; to warn electricians, as well as the contractor, owners or agents of the owner of minor violations of or departures from the National Electric Code, and to report all such warnings to the City Council of the City of Clermont; to direct licensed electricians to correct important, major or dangerous violations or departures of or from said code, and to report all such directions to the said Council and also to report to said Council all refusals or failures to obey such directions, and copy thereof to go to the contractor, owners or agents of the owner of the property. On new construction or remodeling there shall be at least two inspections made. One while the rough construction and wiring is still exposed, and the other upon completion of the work. The inspection will be made within the next succeeding four working hours from the time requested. It shall be unlawful for contractor to allow wiring to be concealed before it has been passed by the inspector. SECTION 7. The installation requirements for Electric Service and Meter Installations shall conform to the requirements . of the person, firm or corporation furnishing power from its trans- mission lines. For the present minimum requirements these established and in force by the local power company (Florida Power Corporation) are hereby established as the minimum requirements, under this ordinance. The installation of temporary service to any building or upon any property wi thin the City of Clermont for construction purposes or for any other pu.rpose shall be installed in accordance with the minimum requirements of Electric Service and Meter Installation of the Florida Power Corporati?n as established and adopted herein. .-' -- It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to supply electrical power to any property or building or to any electrical installation hereafter installed until such electrical installation shall be first approved by the Electrical Inspector. SECTION 8. Prior to entering upon any new electrical work of the type or types contemplated by the National Electrical Code each licensed electrician in the City of Clermont or other electrician -e or individual performing such work in the City of Clermont shall obtain a permit from the City of Clermont for each job. Failure to obtain this permit shall result in disapproval of the work by the Electrical Inspector. This provision shall also apply to temporary service for construction or other purposes. The ·following inspection fees shall accompany a permit application and paid to Clerk of City of Clermont: New Construction (which shall include re- wiring of any structure) Repairing or additions Temporary service $2.50 1.00 1.00 SECTION 9. Nothing herein contained shall be construed in any way as restraining or preventing any person, firm or corporation from performing its own electrical work and using its own materials on any property owned by said person, firm or corporation, without a license; provided, however such work done and materials used must conform with the National Electric Code and be approved by the Electric~ Inspector, as though done by a licensed electrician. SECTION 10. In the event the Electrical Inspector shall three (3) times warn a licensed electrician of violations or departures of or from the National Electric Code, as amended, and said licensed electrician thereafter repeats the same violations or departures or any of them, the license of+~iQ..¡J.icensed electrician may, for that cause, be revoked in the mar1h~r/\If'ihis ordinance. In the event the Electrical Inspector shall direct a licensed electrician to correct a violation or departure of or ·from the National Electric Code, and said licensed electrician shall re- fuse to obey such direction or shall fail, within a reasonable time, to comply with such direction, the license of said licensed electrician may, for that cause, be revoked in the manner set forth in this ordinance. SECTION 11. Revocation of the license of any licensed electrician shall be by the City Council of the City of Clermont, for any cause enumerated in this ordinance.' Before the said City Council shall revoke any such license, it shall give the licensee a written statement of the cause for revocation of the license, and a full hearing, if the licensee shall demand a hearing within fifteen (15) days after receiving said notice or statement, such demand of hearing to be made in writing. At such hearing, the licensee shall be entitled to produce witnesses and be represented by counsel. The reasonableness of the warnings or directions of the Electrical Inspector shall be considered. In order to permit a licensee whose license shall be revoked an opportunity to apply to the Courts for relief, no revocation of license by the City Council shall become· effective until ten (10) days after such re- vocation, but shall then become fully effective unless prevented by judicial action. If the licensee does not demand a hearing after receiving the written statement of cause for revocation, as herein provided, the license shall be revoked. . SECTION 12. Any reference to the National Electric Code the 1953 Code is referred to including all amendments thereto. Hereafter any re-compiled or re-published National Electric Code is hereby approved and made a part of this ordinance and thereafter shall be the minimum standard of practice of licensed electricians in the City of Clermont the same as if same had been adopted hereby. The Board or the City Council may keep a supply of said codes for applicants or licensed electricians which shall be resold at cost to those desiring same. SECTION 13. All electricians now licensed by the City of Clermont, as well as those hereafter making application shall be furnished with a. copy of this ordinance. .. SECTION 14. All members of a firm performing the work of an electrician shall first obtain a license under this ordinance. Any corporation having electricians in its employ shall have each licensed ·mjder this ordinance. Nothing herein shall prevent any licensed person, firm or corporation from having assistants, journey-men electricians or apprenticed electricians in their employ who shall not be required to be licensed under this ordinance, unless otherwise required by an ordinance or ordinances of the City of Clermont, in which case they shall be notified of same. SECTION 15. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage. Each of the provisions of this ordinance are' severable, and if any provision shall be declared to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall not be affected but shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 16. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont at a Regular Meeting held on February· 1, 1955. /s~~7ì!~fÁ~ / President of the City Council (CITY Sl.,.L) ....;,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RECEIVED and approved by me this February 1, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .. .