99-31 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 25 - ELECTRICAL COMMISSION, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS AND LICENSED ELECTRICIANS

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' ` Chapter 25 3. LICENSE REQUIRED. (A) No corporation, partnership, or other person shall install, alter or service electrical equipment in the City of Decatur, Illinois, without first having obtained a license as an Electrical Contractor in the City of Decatur. All Electrical contractors shall employee at least one (1) properly licensed Electrician in a supervisory or administrative capacity. (B) No person shall install, alter or service electrical equipment, or supervise same, in the City of Decatur without first having obtained a license as an Electrician; provided that, any Electrician properly licensed through testing comparable to the City of Decatur in a municipality in the State of Illinois, may install, alter or service electrical equipment in this City without securing an additional license so long as such electrician complies with the rules and regulations and provisions of ordinance of this City and they are employed by, or licensed as, a City of Decatur Electrical Contractor. (C) The license requirements of subsections (A) and(B)hereof shall not apply: (1)to persons working under the supervision of a person licensed under the provisions of subsection(B); or, (2) to persons residing, or intending to reside, in a single family dwelling owned by such person or persons and who install, alter or service electrical equipment therein - provided that, said owner/occupant must submit to a minimum written test as prescribed by the Electrical Commission and pass said test with a satisfactory score of 70% and such person or persons must reside in said residence for not less than six (6)months after completion of such work, and that such work is subject to all other requirements of applicable Code or ordinance. (3) to any corporation, partnership, municipal corporation, or other public or private entity installing, altering or servicing electrical equipment owned by such entity, in the course of normal or emergency maintenance; provided that, all such work is supervised or administered by a licensed electrician employed by such entity. "Installing", as used herein, shall not apply to the construction of a new building or to the remodeling of an existing building, the cost of which remodeling exceeds 30%of the cost of a comparable new building.