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i �.•!� . « + � . _ � �� '��� <br /> ' a , <br /> • <br /> f - ORDINANCE NO. ���- � <br /> ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LICENSING OF <br /> ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS <br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS : <br /> Section l . This ordinance shall be known as and may be cited <br /> as the Electrical Contractors Licensing Ordinance. <br /> Section 2. Whenever tY?e words Inspection Division are used <br /> herein, it shall refer to the Inspection Division of the Department <br /> of Community Development of the City of Decatur, Illinois. <br /> Section 3 . The term electrical contractor as used herein means <br /> any person engaged in the business of installing or altering by <br /> contract electrical equipment as defined herein but does not include <br /> the eMployees employed by an electrical contractor to do or supervise <br /> his work. <br /> Section 4 . The term electrical equipment as used herein means <br /> conductors and other equipment installed for the utilization of <br /> electricity for light, heat or power, but does not include radio <br /> apparatus or equipment for wireless reception of sound and <br /> signals , or apparatus, conductors or other equipment installed for <br /> or by public utilities , including common carriers, which are under <br /> the jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission, for use in <br /> their operation as public utilities . <br /> Section 5. No person shall install or alter electrical <br /> equipment or wiring in the City of Decatur, Illinois, or engage <br /> in the business of an electrical contractor therein, without being <br /> registered as an electrical contractor under the provisions of this <br /> ordinance, provided that a person residing in a single family dwelling <br /> owned by such person, may install or alter electrical equipment and <br /> wiring therein subject to all other provisions of this ordinance without <br /> being so registered. <br /> Section 6 . No person shall be registered as an electrical ' <br /> contractor under the provisions of this ordinance until he shall have '� <br /> mad� application therefore, shall have paid the registration fee '� <br /> required hereby, and except in the case of renewal of registration, � <br /> sha11 have satisfactorily passed the examination required by the �, <br /> pravisions hereof, except that a person currently registered or <br /> licensed as an electrical contractor by a municipality in the State <br /> of Illinois wherein his principal place of business is located <br /> may be registered in this City without payment of such fee and <br />