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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Aa ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ELECTRICAL INSTALL-
ATION AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR ALL CLASSES OF ELECTRICAL WORK
IN THE C11Y OF GEORGETOWN AND AREAS ADJACENT TO THE CITY RECEIVING
CITY ELECTRICAL SERViCES; ESTABLISHING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
OF THE CITY ELECTRICAL INSPECTOP-, CREATING THE CITY BOARD OF ELEC-
TRICAL EXAMINERS TO EXAMINE AND CERTIFY QUALIFICA 10.NS OF PERSONS
APPLYING FOR ELECTRICAL. CONTRACTCR, MASTER ELECTRICIAN, JOURNEYMAN
ELECTRICIAN AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE ELECTRICIAN LICENSES AND TO
HEAR APPEALS FROM DECISIONS OF THE CITY ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR; PRO-
VIDING TOR RECIPROCAL. RECOGNITION OF AN ELECTRICIAN'S QUALIFICATIONS
WHEN LICENSED BY OTHER TEXAS CITIES; ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTSI FOR
PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS OF ELECTRICAL WORK; SETTING TECHNICAL STAN -
ARDS BY ADOPTING BY REFERENCE 'THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 1981
EDITION, THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY CODE AND ESTABLISHING MORE
STRINGENT STANDARDS FOR SOME CLASSES OF WORK; ESTABLISHING FEES FOR
EXAMINATION, LICENSES AND PERMITS: AND PROVIDING FOR PENALITIES FOR
VIOLATIONS OF THE ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown did duly pass and approve the above captioned
ordinance on the 13th day of March, 1979; and
WHEREAS, the above captioned ordinance is in need of amendment; Now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, that:
1. Section 56, Para b(1) is hereby am:nded to read as follows:
b.(1) Such electrician shall submit evidence satisfactory to the
building department of the City of Georgetown, Texas, that
his electrician's license or certificate of registration was
issued by and from another city within the State of Texas,
and that such electrician presently and properly holds a
currently valid electrician's license or certificate of
registration from and by such city, and further, that the
clty which issued said electrician's license or certificate
of registration does and is, as an act of mutual reciprocity,
under said other cities' ordinances, honor and accept elec-
tricians' licenses or certificates of registration issued by
the City of Georgetown, Texas, and does permit, and is per-
mitting, such electricians licensed or certificated by the
City of Georgetown, Texas, to apply for and obtain similar
electricians' licenses or certificates of registration and in
fact, does perform electrician' work within the city limits of
said ether city of the State of Texas. The City of Georgetown
will not accept a reciprocal license that would have recipro-
cated to that City, and must have been licensed with that
City for a pericd of one (1) year.
2. Section 72, Para (a) and (c) is•.hereby amended to read -as follows:
(a) No person shall commence the erection, construction, alteration
or change of any electrical installation, machinery, apparatus,
work or wiring in the city until a permit has been issued by the
city building department covering each installation to be made.
When a service of one hundred ten (110) amperes demand or more is
required, a wiring diagram showing feeder details may be required
and approved by the city building department before a permit will
be granted.
(c) It shall be unlawful for the city electrical department to do any
wiring of any nature in or on any building, except power houses
and substations of electric light, heat and pow:r companies opera-
ting under a franchise granted by the city, for which a permit
has not been issued, or to make any electrical connections to any
building or electrical wiring or apparatus until a certificate of
inspection or written statement authorizing connect?on has been
issued by the city building department. All persons operating
under a regular franchise granted by the city, shall upon written
notice by the city building department, disconnect any circuit,
main service wires, branch feeder wires, or distribution system.
as designated by such notice; and shall not reconnect such Installa-
tion except upon written permission from the city building department>
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