Ordinance 15-06OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO. 15-06
AMENDING CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 18
ELECTRICITY, SECTION 81-2 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE -AMENDMENTS, BY
AMENDING SECTION 81-3 ELECTRICAL CODE BOARD BY INCREASING THE
NUMBER OF MEMBERS FROM FIVE TO SEVEN AND PROVIDING FOR REGULAR
AND SPECIAL MEETINGS; BY AMENDING SECTION 83-1 DEFINITIONS
"APPRENTICE OR HELPER," "MASTER ELECTRICIAN/ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTOR," AND "JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN"
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances § 81-2 is amended by
amending § 81-3(b) and (d)(5) to read as follows:
(b) Membership. The electrical code board shall consist of seven (7)
members appointed by the city council. Six (6) members shall have a
background or experience in electrical engineering, electrical contracting,
electrical installation or electrical maintenance, and one (1) member shall
be appointed from the public at large.
(d) Rules and regulations. The board shall make such rules and
prescribe such procedures as may be reasonably necessary for its
operation, except that such rules shall include the following:
(5) Meetings. Regular meetings of the electrical code board shall be held
on the 4t Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November. Special meetings may be called from time to time by the
chairperson, the secretary or the city manager. When the day fixed for any
regular meeting of the board falls upon a day designated as a legal or
national holiday or city holiday, such meeting shall be held on the next
succeeding day not a holiday. The secretary shall give notice to the
members of the board if there is no business filed with the secretary to be
heard by the board by noon on the Wednesday prior to the regular
meeting date and such regular meeting shall stand cancelled. The
secretary shall provide notice of the
cancellation of the meeting in the same manner as notice of a regular
meeting. Members of the electrical code board shall attend at least two-
thirds (2/3) of all scheduled meetings within a twelve month period. If any
member does not attend such prescribed number of meetings, it shall
constitute grounds for the board to recommend to the city council that said
member be replaced.
Section 2. City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances § 81-2 is amended by
amending or adding in § 83-1 the following definitions:
Apprentice or helper shall mean a person who does not hold a license as
a journeyman electrician, maintenance electrician or contractor and who is
assisting in the installation, alteration or repair of electrical work under the
supervision of a Class I, II, or III electrical license holder. Under the
supervision of a Class I, II, or III electrical license holder shall mean that a
Class I, Class II, or Class III certificate competency holder is physically
present on the job site and at the same project location and that the
apprentice is engaged in the same phase of the project as the Class I,
Class II, or Class III certificate competency holder. However, the
apprentice is not required to be within sight of the Class I, Class II, or
Class III certificate competency holder at all times.
Master electrician/electrical contractor means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to
plan, lay out, install, service and supervise the installation of electrical
wiring, electrical equipment apparatus, electrical equipment for light, heat,
power, and other purposes and to supervise apprentices, and who is
licensed by the board.
Journeyman electrician means a person having the necessary
qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to wire for or
install electrical wiring, electrical apparatus, and electrical equipment, and
to supervise apprentices, and who is licensed by the electrical board.
Passed, approved and adopted this 20th day of February, 2006.
/s/Roy D. Buol, Mayor
Attest:
/s/Jeanne F. Schneider, CMC
City Clerk
Published officially in the Telegraph Herald Newspaper the 24th day of February, 2006.
/s/Jeanne F. Schneider, CMC
City Clerk
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