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AN ORDINANCE TO BE KNOIFN AS THE ELECTRICAL CODE OF THE CITY OF
SAN RAFAEL, CREATING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR,
PRESCRIBING HIS DUTIES, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF ELECTRICAL
PERT,IITS AVID FOR ITuSPECTIONS A1,TD FIXIH,G THE FEES 'THEREFOR; REGU-
LATING THE INSTALLATIOI.4, ARRANGE1.1'ENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, I:IAIN-
TENANCE AND OPERATIOII OF ELECTRIC WIRING, ELECTRIC FIXTURES,
AND OTHER ELECTRIC APPLIANCES AND EQUIPI:IEI"IT IN THE CITY OF SALT
RAFAEL; PROVIDING A PE TIALTY FOR THE, VIOLATION OF THE SAI,IIE AND
ADOPTING THE UNIFORI,II ELECTRICAL CODE PUBLISHED BY THE PACIFIC
COAST ELECTRICAL BUREAU BY REFERENCE; AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF
ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR TO ADOPT AND ENFORCE INTERIM* REVISIONS TO
THE 1940 EDITION OF THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE DURILIG THE
NATIONAL L11'.ERGENCY BY AMENDING SUB -SECTION D, SECTION 8, AND
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN COTIT=ICT HERE71ITH,
The City Council of the City of San Rafael, California, do
hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Chief Electrical In 2 ctor;Creation. There is hereby
created and established the office of CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR for
the City of San Rafael, California, whose authority and duties shall
be as set forth and contained in the Uniform ;electrical Code herein-
after adopted by 'reference.
SECTION 2: All that certain "Uniform Electrical Code" so en-
titled, published by the Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau, 1941 Edition,
three copies of ;,which, in printed book form, have been filed and are
now on file in the Office of the City Clerk of said City marked
"filed" therein on the 25th day of June, 1942, for use and examination
by the public, is hereby adopted as the Uniform Electrical Code of
and for the City of San Rafael, California, to which reference is
hereby made with like effect as if all of the provisions and printed
matter therein were herein set forth in full, excepting, however, that
the words"a competent electrician" appearing in lines 3 and 4 of
Section 1 of said Code, shall be and they are hereby deleted from said
Code and the Chief Electrical Inspector therein and herein provided
need not be a competent electrician.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
41B ALBERT BUILDING
BAN RAFAEL, CALIF.
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SECTION 3: Except as hereinabove excepted all of the pages,
titles, printed matter, indexes, parts, chapters, paraCD
graphs, sec-
tions, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, regulations and penal-
ties therein provided and contained are hereby adopted as the rules
and regulations for the government and regulation of the installation,
arrangement, alteration, repair, maintenance and operation of the
electrical wiring, electric fixtures and other electric appliances
and equipment in said city.
SECTION 4: The penalties for violation of any of the provisions
of this Ordinance or of said Uniform Electrical Code shall be as ex-
pressed and provided in said Code and in lieu of the City Jail men-
tioned in Section 23 of said Code tl-ie"County Jail of the County of
I1larin is hereby fixed as the place of imprisonment for violation of
said Code.
SECTION 5: Each of the matters and things in said Code declared
to be unlawful or in violation thereof is hereby declared to be unlaw-
ful and in violation of said Code.
SECTI011 6: Charter Ordinance 'o. 175, Charter Ordinance 'No. 284
and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 7: Subsection D, Section 8 of said Uniform Llectrical
Code shall be and is hereby amended to authorize the Chief Electrical
Inspector to adopt and enforce such interim revisions to the 1940 Edi-
tion of the National Electrical Code as may be adopted during the
present war emergency.
SECTION 8: This ordinance is intended as an emergency ordinance
and shall therefore be in full force and effect immediately upon its
final passage. Said emergency is hereby declared to consist in the
following facts, to wit: a state of war exists between the United
States of America and other nations by reason ,�rhereof certain Federal
regulations have been adopted and certain provisions of the National
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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Electrical Code have been and are continuously being made restrict-
ing the use of certain critical materials provided by said Uniform
Electrical Code and National Electrical Code and it is necessary that
full force and effect be immediately given to -said regulations and
revisions and it is necessary that a supplemental emergency ordi-
nance be concurrently adopted ivith this Ordinance by reason whereof
'this Ordinance should take effect without delay.
SECTION 9: This ordinance shall be published once in full be-
fore its final passage in the Marin Journal, -a weekly newspaper,
printed, published and circulated in said city, and shall be in full
force and effect from and after its final passage.
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MARTINELLI & GARDINER
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
478 ALBERT BUILDING
BAN RAFAEL, CALIF.
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