(1)     No person or persons shall, without complying with the provisions herein, install wires, conduit apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances in or on any public or private building for lighting or heating by electricity or for the use of electrical power or repair or change any electrical wires or wire in any public or private building; and the Building Superintendent shall condemn and cause immediately to be removed any and all wires which he finds to have been installed in violation of this Code.
(2)     This Code shall not be so construed as to forbid the attachment, by other than duly licensed persons, of ordinary appliances, lamps and apparatus for which circuits and wires were installed and designed.
     (b)     Responsibility. In case of a person, firm or corporation employing a master electrical licenseholder, both such person, firm or corporation and the master electrician licenseholder shall be responsible for all violations under this Code.
     (c)     Eligibility.
(1)     An applicant for a master electrician license shall have had at least eight years practical experience in electrical work, or four years as a journeyman, or shall have satisfactorily completed a course of study in electrical engineering given by a recognized school, plus one year of practical experience in electrical engineering, or shall be a graduate electrical engineer.
(2)     A.     An applicant for an industrial electrician license shall have at least ten years practical experience in electrical work, as defined in this Code, or shall have satisfactorily completed a course of study in electrical engineering given by a recognized school, plus one year of practical experience in electrical engineering
B.     The requirements of this subsection shall be waived in the case where the industry employs a plant engineer as defined in Section 1309.01(c).
(3)     An applicant for a HVAC electrician license shall be a licensed HVAC journeyman or master licenseholder. The licensed HVAC journeyman may be in the steady employ of only one master HVAC licenseholder.
     (d)     Liability Insurance Required. Each applicant for an electrical license shall provide a certificate indicating that valid liability insurance in solvent insurance companies licensed to do business by the State of Ohio, has been obtained and maintained. Such insurance shall contain standard liability coverage provisions with respect to the business of such person and insuring such person against any claims for bodily injury or property damage arising out of any negligent act of such person or his agents or employees occurring in the course of such business, with minimum limits of liability as follows:
$250,000/$500,000 bodily injury liability0
$250,000 property damage liability.
(1)     Such insurance policy shall contain a clause that ten days notice of cancellation, or material change in the policy, shall be furnished to the City of Fairfield Building Division, and shall also provide that the City of Fairfield is a named insured along with the contractor applicant, if possible.
(2)     The requirements set forth shall be mandatory for all new applicants. All holders of licenses issued prior to the enactment of this subsection shall be required to comply within thirty days of official notification of the requirement by the City Building Division.
 

     (e)     Exemption to Electrical License Requirement.  Persons performing repairs to the underground electrical service conductors on existing one, two and three family residential homes necessitated by outages due to any fault shall be exempt from the requirements of electrical licenses.  All work and materials shall conform to Article 110 of the National Electric Code.
(Ord. 7-05.  Passed 1-24-05.)