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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 684 (Electrical Code)r CHARTER ORDINANCEIaLl Q AN ORDINANCE TO BE KNOWN AS THE ELECTRICAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, PRESCRIBING HIS DUTIES, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF ELECTRICAL PER- MITS AND FOR INSPECTIONS AND FIXING THE FEES THEREFOR; REGULATING THE INSTALLATION, ARRANGEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF ELECTRIC WIRING, ELECTRIC FIXTURES, AND OTHER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND EQUIPNM IN THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE SAME AND ADOPTING THE UNIFORM ELECTRICAL CORE, 1956 BDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE PACIFIC. COAST ELECTRICAL BUREAU, BI REFERENCE, WHICH CODE ADOPTS, BY REFERENCE, THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 1956 EDITION; REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE N0. 610; AND AMENDING SECTIONS ONE AND THREE (1 & 3) AND ADDING NEW PARTS TO SECTIONS ONE, THREE AND SIX (1, 3, & 6) OF THE UNIFORM ELECTRICAL CODE. The Council of the City of San Rafael do ordain as follows: SECTION 1: All that certain "Uniform Electrical Code" published by the Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau, 1956 Edition, including the secondary code referred to therein, to -wit; the 1956 National Electrical Code, three certified copies of which, in printed form, have been filed and are now on file in the office of the City Clerk of said city marked "filed" therein on the !L day of / -v� � V J, for use and examination by the public, is hereby adopted as the 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. SECTION 2: Except as hereinafter emended or added to, all of the pages, titles, printed matter, indexes, parts, chapters, paragraphs, sections, sub -sections, subdivisions, provisions and regulations therein provided and contained are hereby adopted as the rules and regulations for the government and regulation of the installatlomg arrangement, alteration, repair, maintenance and operation of the electrical hiring, electric fixtures and other electric appliances and equipment in said city, 11 SECTIM N Ia compliance with the requirement of Section 50022.5 if the Goverhmnt Code of the State of California that the adopting ordinance contain a description q the primary adopted code and of each secondary code incorporated therein by reference, the following is set forth: (a) The Uniform Electrical Code has been promulgated by the Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau whose address is 681 Market Street, San Francisco, which said code was published in 1956; the purpose of said code is to regulate the•installation', arrangements alteration, repair, maintenance and operation of electric wiring, electric fixtures, and other electrical appliances and equipment in the City of San Rafael# creating the office of Chief Electrical Inspector, prescribing his duties, and providing for the issuance of electrical permits and for inspections and fixing the fees therefor; (b) The National Electric Code has been promulgated by the National Board of Fire Underwriters whose address is 465 California Street, San Francisco, which said code was published in 1956; the purpose of said code is the practical safeguarding of persons and of buildings, and their contents from hazards arising Pram the use of electricity for light, heat, power, radio, signalling and for other purposes, and to set forth basic minimum provisions considered necessary for safety. SECTION 4. Delete "D" and "E" of Section 1 and change to read as follows: D. ADMINISTRATION & ENFORCEMENT a General powers of Electrical Department with Respect to Enforcement of Laws, Ordinances, Etc. Concerning Electrical Work, The Chief Electrical Inspector is hereby authorized and empowered, to enforce all lave and ordinances and all lawful orders, rules and regulations that are now or may hereafter be in effect with respect to the performance of electrical work and the construction, installation, protection, alteration, repair, operation, maintenances and use of electrical equipment] to have and to exercise jurisdiction over and supervision of all electrical work and all electrical equipment •insofar and to such and extent as May be necessary for the adequate enforcement of such laws, ordinances, orders, rules, and regulations; and to inspect and re -inspect any and all electrical work and electrical equipment at such times and as often as, in the discretion of the Chief Electrical Inspector, may be necessary to determine that such laws, ordinances, orders, rules and regulations shall have been or are being complied with. A71 electrical equipment now existing, or that nay hereafter be installed, shall be #abject to such supervision, inspeetion, and re -inspection. �y,4,�y�.�,1�. t•�+"�'' � Vt�=�r��{T 1F�� 1►' + E. CONMATIDN AND DISCONNECTION OF ELECTRICAL NQUIMENT. Whenever the Chief Electrical Inspector shall find any electrical equipment to have been installed, changed, altered, operated or used in a manner, which in the judgment of the Chief Electrical Inspector, is defective or unsafe or dangerous to person or property, the Chief Electrical Inspector shall have the authority and paver, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to condemn such unlawfully installed, changed or altered, or unlawfully operated or used, or defective,, unsafe or dangerous electrical equipment and to prohibit the further use thereof until the said defective, unsafe, or dangerous conditions with respect thereto shall have been remedied; and said Chief Electrical Inspector is likewise further authorized and empowered thereupon summarily to disconnect aqp such electrical equipment from its source of current supply and to place a seal thereon, or to order and require the person supp2Yijng electrical energy to such equipment to disconnect his supply or service wires and discontinue the supply of electrical energy to such equipment; or said Chief Electrical Inspector may give notice to the person owning or in charge or control of any such condemned electrical equipment directing that the defective, unsafe, or dangerous conditions thereof or with respect thereto be remedied or removed within a period of time to be fixed in said notice, and any person who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with any such notice within the time and in the manner therein specified, shall be subject to the penalty provided for violation of Section 11. In any specified case, the Chief Electrical Inspector may take action in any or every manner heretobefore authorized, as the circumstances and conditions of the case shall, in his discretion warrant. F. NOTICE OF CONDEKKATIDN. Whenever the Chief Electrical Inspector, pursuant provisions of Section 1, Paragraph E of this Code shall disconnect any electrical equipment, or order and require the same to be disconnected, a notice in writing, Mating the reason for such disconnection, shall be given to the person owning or in charge or control of such electrical equipment, or shall be conspicuously posted an the premises whereon the said equipment is located; and whenever the Chief Electrical Inspector shall likewise disconnect, and order and require the disconnection of, arq supply or service wires, notice in writings stating the reason for such disconnection shall also be given to the person supplying electrica ;snerg)r tha•rn�g;. such supply or service wires. ai Go WNLY TO BE DISCONNECTED WEN 80 ORDERED. It shall be unlawful for any person supping electrical energy to any electrical equipment to fail, neglect, or refuse imediately to disconnect his supply or service.wires and discontinue the supply of electrical energy to such electrical equipment when notified and directed so to do under and in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Code. H. APPROVAL AFTER CORRECTION OF CONDEMNED EQUIPMENT. When any electrical equipment shall have been condemned and disconnected in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Code, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any person to reconnect, or to use any electrical current in, through, or by means of such electrical equipment, or to supply any electrical energy thereto, or to remove or break any seal placed thereon, until the unlawful, defective, unsafe or dangerous conditions with respect to such electrical equipment shall have been remedied and the Chief Electrical Inspector shall have inspected and approved the same. I. RIGHT OF ENTRY. Chief Electrical Inspector and his assistants shall have the right, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to enter or go upon any building or premises at any reasonable hour for the purpose of inspecting or witnessing the operation or use of any electrical equipment in, on, or about such building or premises, or for any other purpose in furtherance of the provisions of this Codes and they shall be given prompt access to any and all such electrical equipment upon application to the person owning or in charge or control of the same; provided, however, that the Inspector shall, upon request, exhibit a badge or other reasonable evidence of his identity and authority. J. UNLAWFUL TO INTERFERE WITH INSPECTOR. It shall be unlawful for any person in charge or control of any electrical equipment to refuse -any Inspector access to such equipment; and it shall be unlawful for any person in any manner to hinder, molest, or interfere with any Inspector or other duly authorized representative of the Chief Electrical Inspector in the performance of his lawful duties. SECTIDIO 5: Section 3 of said Cods entitled, "Fees for Permits and Inspection", is hereby amended by adding to the schedule of fees the following: Each meter in excess of one, for which a final inspection certificate is required--$ 1.00 Cold Cathode Lighting Installations: Each transformer per KVA or fraction thereof ................. .50 Each section of tubing....... ................................. .05 Fluorescent Lighting: 1 Lamp Fixture ..................................... .15 2 Lamp Fixture ..................................... .25 ILamp Fixture ..................................... 30 4 Lapp Fixture .....................0............... .35 SECTION 6: Section 6 (B-2) is hereby deleted and shall read and provide as follows: All one and two family residential installations in excess of goo square feet of floor area shall be provided with a minimum of 100 amperes service entrance facilities. Beach services shall be installed with a minimum of three No. 2 conductors within 1i rigid conduit. Any increase of conduit size shall require such conduit to be rigid. All exposed wiring feeders and conductors when installed within a garage or carport shall be protected with metallic race ways. Exposed wiring shall be any and all electrical conductors which are not enclosed and protected in an approved manner. Metallic raceways when installed in the ground floor Blab within or without a building and any location where such metallic raceways are in contact with the ground, shall be of rigid conduit. SECTION 7: (C) COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. A new part to be known and No. C-1 is hereby added to Section 6 of the Uniform Electric Code, referred to in the title, hereof, and shall read and provide as follows: "SECTION 6. (C-1) Fire -Zones 1 and 2. All electrical wiring installed in or on buildings or structures other than dwellings, apartment h_ -` '��kldings used for living purposes, shall be installed in raceways of rigid meta Metal conduit, electrical metallic tubing, underfloor raceways, cellular metal floor raceways, surface metal raceways, wirewaya, buBways and auxiliary gutters." SECTION 8. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any, violation of any of the provisions of this Code is committed, continued or permitted, and upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be punishable by a fine of not more than FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS, or by imprisonment in the COWMty Jail of Marin County for not more than three months, or by both Ouch fine and imprisonment. SECT MU 9: Charter Ordinance No. 610 is hereby repealed; all otrn„ ordinances in conflict herewith are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed.' SECTION 10: This ordinance shall be published once in Bell before its final passage in the INDEPENDENT -JOURNAL, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said city, and shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days fray and after its filial passage. C - � F. Mc INKIS, Mayor ATTEST f W. Ir. MMM City Cle* The above and foregoing Charter Ordinance No. was read and introduced at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Rafael, held on Monday the 17th day of November, 1958 and ordered passed to print by the following vote to -wit: AYES: OOUNCIUM Aby, Baar, Jensen, Sauer and Mayor McInnis NOES: COUNCIDW None ABSENT: COUNCIENW None and will come up for adoption as an ordinance of the City of San Rafael at a regular meeting of the Council to be held on Monday, the lst day of December, 1958.