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ORDINANCE "N0..-2500
LYu1.ied_ixzMhl.i�za EVey Joxa1 Mays 1922)-
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An Ordinance creating the office of Electrical Inspector in and
for the City of Salina, Kansas',, to regulate and define
the duties of such office and to.establish rules and regu-
lations concerning the -installation, operation and mainte-
nance of electrical wiring and';appliances; to fixpenalties
for the violation of -its preovsi�on and repealing Ordinance
Number 1300 entitled, 'An ordinance coyerin� electrical
wiring and gas piping in the City of Salina ; Ordinance
Number 1313 entitled, "An ordinance -creating the office
of .City Electrician and Inspector, defining the duties of
same and repealin� Section Eight (8).and Nine (9) of Ordi-
nance Number -.11300 ; "and Ordinance -Number 1937 entitled,
1An-'ordin.ance amending Sections, Four (4) of Ordinance Number
1313 passed and approved June '18th,'1906, and.repealing.
such original section' and all', other ordinances in con-
flict herewith.
BE _IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina
Kansas:
Section 1. The office of Electrical Inspector in and for the
City of Salina, Kansas is hereby created and. said office shall
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be filled by appointment of the City' lvlanager, within thirty days
after the passage and publication of'this ordinance. Said Elec-
trical Inspector shall be a competent electrician and well versed
in the rules and requirements of the,National Electrical Code.
Before assuming authority conferred by this ordinance the Elec-
trical Inspector shall take oath usually administered to other
City Officials and shall give -a bond of the City of Salina in the
penal sum of One.Thousand.($-1,000'.00) Dollars, conditioned upon
.the faithful performance of his duties. Provided however that
the Chief of the Fire Department if qualified may.. at the discretion
of the City Ma Hager be appointed as such Electrical Inspector, in
which event however said, official shall receive no further or other
salary or remuneration than that duehim as said Fire Dep artment
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-Chief.
Section 2. Every corporation; co -partnership, association
or individual owning or operating a line of wires over streets,
alleys or buildings in this City shall use only wires that are
suitable and strong; shall suitably and safely attach them to strong -
and sufficient supports and insu.latel'them at all points of at-
tachment; shall remove all wires abandoned.for use; shall suit-
ably insulate every wire where it enters a building and if such
wire is other than wire designed to carry an electric light or
power current, shallattach to it at suitable and convenient points
in the circuit, a calculated to prevent danger from. fire and near
the place of entering the building, an appliance calculated to
prevent at all times a current of electricity of such intensity or
volume as to be capable of injuring electrical instruments or
causing fire from entering by means of such wire, beyond the point
at which such appliance is attached.''
Section 3. No corporation, co -partnership, association of
individuals or individual shall engage in the business or hold
himself out to the public as engaged in the business of installing
electrical wiring and apparatus to be used in connection with
electrical lighting, heat or power within any building in the City
of Salina without first appearing in person or by a duly author-
ized representative at the office of the City Clerk and registering
his name and address or the name and address of the corporation,
co -partnership, association or individual represented, which act
shall entitle the corporation, co-partnership,'Iassociation or
individual so registered to receive a Certificate of Registration,
Said Certificate of Registration shall entitle'the holder thereof
to engage in the business of installing electrical wiring and
apparatus within the limits of the City of Salina, provided how-
ever, that no Certificate of Registration shall be issued until
the corporation, co -partnership, association or individual regist-
ered shall have filed with the City Clerk a good and sufficient
Surety Company Bond in the penal sum of Five Hundred ($500.00)
Dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of all con-
tracts entered into for the installing of electrical wiring and
apparatus and accompanied by an annual registration fee of Twenty -
Five 025.00) Dollars.. Said Certificate of Registration shall
be forfeited if the holder thereof shall fail or -refuse to com-
ply with the provisions of any ordinance of this City covering
the installation or maintenance of any electric wires or appara-
tus.
Section 4.
The installation or*electrie'alwiring and appa-
ratus for the utilization of electrical current shall be made in
accordance with the then current issue of the National Electrical
Code of the National Board of Fire Underwriters with the follow-
ing modifications and improvements:
(a) The installation of all entrance wiring used for
lighting'°'purposes in commercial and business houses, shall be of
the balanced three (3) wire type from outside of building to center
of distribution.
(b) A:11 service entrances shall be made in rigid metallic
conduit, terminating on the outside in an approved weather proof
fitting, and on the inside in an approved metallic externally
operated safety entrance switch box. The service entrance wire
shall be not less than Number ten (10) B & S guage copper with
a suitable rubber or equivalent insulation for ,,the voltage of that
class of service.
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(c) Approved metallic, conduit shall be used for inclosing
all electric light and power wiring in new buildings, the re-
wiring of old buildings and in any installation in old buildings
or additions thereto located within the district known as the
fire limits.
(d) All wiring for electric light and power hereafter
installed in churches, theatres, and other places used for pub-
lic gatherings, garages designed for the occupancy of more than
two cars, commercial houses and store buildings, manufacturing
plants of all descriptions and apartment houses designed for the
occupancy of more than three families, and all office buildings
in the City of Salina shall be installed in metallic conduit
or armoured cable approved by the National Board of Fire Under-
writers.
(e) All wiring for electrical power, electric ranges and
rectifiers, in whatsoever location shall be installed in metallic
conduit or approved armoured cable.
(f) All safety metallic switch boxes referred to in
Section (b) shall_ be of the safety inclosed type operated from
the outside of the inclosure so marked as to indicate plainly
without opening the enclosure whether the switch contained with-
in is in the "on" or "off" position, and shall contain an approved
service entrance switch and fuses. This box must be so arranged
that it can be sealed. The main service fuse must be in place
when the City Electrical Inspector makes his final inspection. He
will then seal this main service box,,,' -Only the City Electrician
or authorized employees of the Salina Light, Power .& Gas Company,
or employees of the City Fire Department shall have the authority
to break this seal for renewal of fuses or inspection. The seal
must be replaced by the party breaking it. in case of emergency an
electrical contract holding an active Certificate of Registra-
tion or his employee may break the'seal to replace the fuse, but
in such case, the City Electrician or the Salina Light, Power and
Gas Company must be notified. In all cases the party so notified
must make an inspection of the newly installed fuse and seal the
entrance switch box.
(g) Circuit or branch fuses must be installed on all wiring
installations, in addition to the fuses called for in Section (f)
and must be accessible to the customer, and of such size that
they will protect the circuits connected'thei°eto.
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(h) All wires running to out -buildings shall not.be less
than Number
'Twelve (12)
B &
S Guage weather
proof wire.
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All circuits
for
operating motors
below five (5) Horse
Power and above 150 volts shall have starting and running fuses,
shall be equipped with a saffety starting switch inclosed in a
metal cabinet and exteranally operated and shall be equipped with
cartridge fuses or approved Thermal cut-outs.
(j) All circuits for operating motors above five (5)
Horse Power capacity shall be equipped with a safetyswitch en-
closed in a metallic cabinet and externally operated, equipped
with cartridge fuses and a starting device approved by the Company
to whose distribution system said installation is to,be connect-
ed.
(k) The requirements of the Company to whose system all
installations or electrical wiring and apparatus are to be made
relative to service entrance location, meter location, size of
motor, kind of service available; etc. as long as they -do not
conflict with any section of this ordinance or the National Elec-
tric Code, shall be complied with by,the installation.
Section 5. No corporations, co -partnerships, associations
or individuals shall make any installation of wiring for the
transmitting of electrical current for light, heat or power, or
make any changes or additions to any wiring that has already been
installed, in or upon any buildings in the City of Salina-with-
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alina with -out the owner first obtaining a permit covering such work. A
complete record shall be kept by the Electrical inspector of
all such permits issued and he shall make, upon request, a thor-
ough inspection of all work covered by such permits. Such in-
spections shall be made in accordance with the rules of the -
National Board of Fire Underwriters and Ordinances of the City
of Salina that have been enacted or may hereafter be enacted and
collect the following fees from the property owner requesting
such inspection at the following rates: For the first 8 outlets
for incandescent lamps or small portable appliances, ten cents
(10�) per outlet; for the next thirty-two (32) outlets or small
appliances, five cents (5�) each;,,and all over forty (40) outlets
two cents (2d) each; for motors ten cents (10�) per Horsepower
of manufacturers rating; for installing switches or additional
,outlets in old wiring, ten cents (10¢x) per outlet for the first
eight (S) additional outlets, and five cents (5�.)-for each
additional outlet; for electric signs of thirty ( 30 ) outlets
or less ,seventy-five cents (75/) and for each additional light
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one cent (1�). All fees billed under the above 'schedule shall
become due and payable to the City of Salina immediately upon
the completion of the inspection and shall upon collection be
paid into the general fund of the City of Salina by the Electric-
al Inspector who shall take the receipt of the City Treasurer
therefor.
Section 6. No electrical company shall connect any wires
to any buildings for electric service or current until there is
presented to said company a certification of permission to make
such connections in writing and signed by the Electrical Inspect-
or. The Electrical Inspector upon completing the inspection of
any installation of electric wiring shall place on the outside
of the safety entrance,switch box a tag signifying that the in-
stallation is ready for electrical service. If the Inspector
finds any portion -of this entire installation contrary to any
section of this ordinance or the--r3.les of the National Board of
Fire Underwirters, he shall not place his tag of approval on the
installation until the same is changed to meet such requirements.
This requirement also applies to an old installation if building
containing same has been moved from one location to another.
Section 7. No wire or wires shall be installed, operated
or maintained over any street, alley, sideswalk or building in
this City which shall be liable to seriously interfere with the
work of the Fire Department in the use of ladders or other apparatLE
or which shall obstruct or render hazardous the use of fire escapes
or which shall render any street, alley or sidewalk dangerous ar
hzardous to any person traveling thereupon and on complaint of
the Chief of Fire Department said obstructing, interfering or
ha<;ardous wire shall be removed or properly re -arranged.
Section 8. VTherever possible and expedient signal wires
shall not be carried on the same pole or in dangerous proximity
to high potential electric light or power wires and where a joint
occupancy pole line composed of these two classes of systems cross
each other, the high potential electric light or power wires shall
be placed and maintaned not less than four',(4) feet above every
signal wire, and where it is impossible to provide for such a
separation, it shall.be the duty of the Electrical Inspector to
arrange and enforce an equitable and safe alternative plan.
Section Q. The said Electrical Inspector shall make a thor-
ough inspection of all. electrically wired buildings within the City
at least once in each year and where wires or appliances used
therein are in dangerous or unsafe condition so as to endanger
life or property or are deemed to be in interference with the work
of the Fire Department, he shall notify in writing, the person
firm or Company owning, using or operating them, giving them a
suitable period of time in which to,place said defective wires
or appliances in a safe, secure and non -interfering condition.
Any person,,firm or company owning, using or operating said de-
feerive wires or appliances, 'neglecting or refusing within said
time to make the necessary repairs or changes and have the neces-
sary work completed within the specified.time shall be deemed
guilty of a violation of this ordinance. The Electrical Inspect-
or shall then have authority to order the supplying Company to
discontinue electric service to said defective wires or appli-
ances until such defects shall be repaired in accordance with the
requirements of this ordinance.
Section 10. The Electrical inspector by and with the con-
sent of the Board of Commissioners, shall have the power to
deputize one or more assistants and each one of said assistants .
shall in every case be known to be competent to discharge the
duties of Electrical Inspector and the rights and privileges con-
ferred upon the Electrical Inspector are hereby conferred upon
each assistant to the Electrical Inspector when properly appoint-
ed.
Section 11.. The said Electrical Inspector or competent
assistant appointed by him shall have the right during reasonable'
hours to enter any building, manhole or sub -way in the discharge
of his official duties, or for the purpose of making any test of
the electrical apparatus or appliances therein contained, and for
that purpose_he shall I?e given prompt access to all buildings
private,or public and tl all manholes and sub -ways, on application
to the company or individual owning or in charge or control of the
same.
Section 12. The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department or
said Electrical Inspector, or a competent person delegated by them or
either of them shall have the power to at once cause the removal
of all wires, or the turning off of all electrical currents where
the circuits interfere with the work of the Fire Department during
the progress of a fire. The said Electrical Inspector is hereby
authorized and empowered to cause the turning off of electric
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current from all conductors or apparatus which are deemed by him
to be in an unsafe condition or which have-not been installed in
conformity with the provisions of this ordinance as provided in
Section Nine (9). No corporation, eo-,partnership, association
or individual or agent thereof, shall supply, or cause to be
supplied any electric current to conductors or apparatus which
has been deemed by said Electrical Inspector to be in an unsafe
condition or which have not been installed in conformity with
the provisions of this ordinance and. from which the said Elec-
trical Inspector has caused the electric current to be turned
off.
Section 13.
Any corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual or agent thereof, desiring to place any pipe, sheet
metal or other material within six inches of any electrical wire
or wires installed for use in connection with electric light, het.
or power shall, before proceeding with the execution of the work,
obtain from the Electrical Inspector a permit therefor, and on
completion of said work the said corporation, co -partnership,
association or individual or agent thereof shall notify said
Electrical Inspector who shall inspect the same and cause all
wires to be placed in a safe and secure condition, porvided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be construed to refer
to wires installed in approved iron conduit.
Section 14. No corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual shall install any wires for the carrying or the
utilization of any electricity for light and power purposes in,
any building in the process of construction until after all
plumbing and heating connections have been installed. This shall
not prevent the installation conduits or lead covered cable when
same is embedded in concrete and must be installed prior to the
pouring of the concrete.
Section 15. No corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual or agent thereof shall interfere with the Electric
a1 Inspector or any competent person or persons lawfully deputiz-
ed to assist him as hereinbefore provided, while in the perform-
ance of duty and each such interference shall be deemed to consti-
tute a separate offense within the intent and meaning of this
ordinance.
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Section 16. Any corporation, co -partnership, association,
individual or agent thereof found guilty of violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance or neglecting or refusing to comply
with any orders or notice of the Electrical Inspector made pur-
suant to the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less
than Five ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Fifty ($50.,00) Dollars and
the costs of prosecution for each and every offense.
Section 17. That Ordinance Number 1300, Ordinance Number
1313 and Ordinance Number 1937, all ordinances of the City of
Salina, Kansas together with all ordinances and parts of ordi-
nances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 18. In event any portion of this ordinance shall
for any reason be held to be void or invalid the same shall not
effect or render imperative any other portion hereof.
Section 19. This ordinance shall .take effect and be in
full force from and after its publication once in the official
City paper.
Introduced for first reading, May 15th, 1922.
Passed and approved .......... May 22nd, 1922.
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Attest:
Chas. E. Banker
City ler .
STATE OF KANSAS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF SALINE )
F. S. Dyar,
Mayor
I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina,
Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a
true and correct copy of Ordinance Number 2500 passed by the
Board of Commissioners and approved by the Mayor of the City of
Salina, Kansas, May 22nd, 1922; and a record of the vote on its
final adoption is found on Page '34 of Journal No. 10. Said
Ordinance was published in The Salina Evening Journal May
1922.
City Clerk.
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ORDI NANCE_NO_._2.6Q0 . ____
An ordinance making an appropriation for the payment of a certain
. claim.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of
Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That the sume of }+998.92;be and the same
is hereby appropriated out of the moneys fromthe Military
Monument Fund in the City Treasury of the City of Salina,.Kansas
for the payment of the following claim:
R. A. Cassell-- As part payment of'.the contract
for the Electrical work in the
building, of Memorial Hall Build-
ing as per terms of said contract.
Section 2. The Director of the Department of Finance
is hereby authorized to issue a warrant countersigned by the
City Manager upon the City Treasurer for.the purpose and amount
specified.in Section One (1) of this ordinance.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in full force from and after its passage®
Passed and approved September 18th; 1922.
(SEAL)
Attest:
Chas. E. Banker
City Clerk..
STATE OF KANSAS )
) SS
COUNTY OF SALINE )
F. S. Dvar,
Mayor.
I. Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina,
Kansas do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true
and correct copy of Ordinance Number 2600 passed by the Board
of Commissioners and approved by the Mayor of the City of Salina,
Kansas, September 18th, 1922; a record of the:vote on its final
adoption is found on Page a of Journal No 6 10.
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Clerk.
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(Published in The Salina Evening Journal May
ORDINANCE NO. 2500
I-_6� j 10,22)
An Ordinance creating the office of Electrical Inspector in and
for the City of Salina, Kansas, to regulate and define
the duties of such office and to establish rules and regu-
lations concerning the installation, operation and mainte-
nance of electrical wiring and appliances; to fix,penalties
for the violation of its provision and repeAling Ordinance.
Number 1300 entitled, 'An ordinance coverin� electrical
wiring and gas piping in the City of Salina ; Ordinance
Number 1313 entitled, 'An ordinance creating the off.i-ea .
of City Electrician and Inspector, defining the duta' s of
same and repealin� Section Eight (8) and Nine (9) of Ordi
nance Number 1300 ; and Ordinance Number 1937 entitled,
tAn ordinance amending Section Four (4) of Ordinance Number
1313 passed and approved June 18th, 19OCj and repealing
such original sections and all other ordinances in con-
flict herewith.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of
Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. The office of Electrical Inspector in and for the
City of Salina, Kansas is hereby crew and said office shall
be filled by appointment of the CitO+lanager, within thirty days
y after the assa e and • j t
p g pub 1 icat' �.o o this ord�,nance. Said Elec-
trical Inspector shall be a c petent electrician and well versed
in the'rules and require of the National Electrical Code.
Before assuming au ri conferred by this ordinance the Elec-
trical Inspector s 1 ke oath usually administered to other
City Officials and all give a bond of the City of Salina in the
penal'sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, conditioned upon
the faithful performance of his duties. Provided however that
the Chief of the Fire Department if qualified may at the discretion
of the City Manager be appointed as such Electrical Inspector, in
which event however said official shall receive no further or other
salary or remuneration than that due him as said Fire Department
Chief.
Section 2.
Every corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual'owning or operating a line of wires over streets,
alleys- or buildings in this City shall use only wires that are
suitable and strong; shall suitably and safely attach them to strong.
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and sufficient supports and insulate them at all points of at-
tachment; shall remove all wires abandoned for use; shall suit-
ably insulate every wire where it enters a building and if such
wire is other than wire designed to carry an electric light or
power current, shall attach to it at suitable and convenient points
in the circuit:; calculated to prevent danger from fire and near
the place of entering the building, an appliance calculated to
prevent at all times a current of electricity of such intensity or
volume as to be capable of injurih&,electrical instruments or
causing fire from entering by means'of such wire, beyond the point
at which such appliance is attached.
Section 3. No corporation, co -partnership, association of
individuals or individual shall engage in the business or hold
himself out to the public as engaged in the business of installing
electrical wiring and apparatus to.be used in connection with
electrical lighting, heat or power within any building in the City
of Salina without first appearing in person or by a duly author-
ized representative at the office of the City Clerk and registering
j his name and address or the name and address of the corporation,
co -partnership, association or individual represented, which act
shall entitle the.corporation, co -partnership, association or
individual so registered to receive a.Certificate of Registration.
Said Certificate of registration shall entitle the holder thereof
to engage in the business of installing electrical wiring and
apparatus within the limits of the City of Salina, provided how-
ever., that no Certificate of Registration shall be issued until
the corporation, co -partnership, association or individual regist-
ered shall have filed with the City Clerk a good and sufficient
Surety Company Bond in the penal sum of Five Hundred ($500.00)
Dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of all con-
tracts entered into for the installing of electrical wiring and
apparatus and accompanied by an annual registration fee of Twenty -
Five ($25.00) Dollars. Said Oertificate of Registration shall
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be forfeited if the holder thereof shall fail or refuse to
comply with the provisions of any ordinance of this City cover-
ing the installation or maintenance of any electrical wires or
apparatus.`
Section 4. The installation of electrical wiring and appa-
ratus for the utilization of electrical current shall be made in
accordance with the then current issue of the 1Vational Electrical
Code of the National Board of Fire Underwriters with the follow-
ing modifications and improvements:
(a) The installation of all entrance wiring as.edi_for
lighting purposes in.commercial and business houses, shall be of
the balanced three (3) wire type from outside of building to center
of distribution.
(b) All service entrances shall be made in rigid metallic
conduit, terminating on the outside in an approved weather proof
fitting, and on the inside in an approved metallic.externally
operated safety entrance switch box. The service entrance wire
shall be not less than Number ten,(10) B. & S. guage copper with
a suitable rubber or equivalent inJsulation for the voltage of that
class of service..
(c) Approved metallic conduit shall be used for inclosing
all -electric light and power wiring in new buildings, the re-
wiring of old buildings and in any installation in old buildings
or additions thereto located within the district known as the
fire limits.
(d) All wiring for electric light and power hereafter
installed in churches, theatres, and other places used for
public gatherings, garages designed for the occupancy of more
than two cars, commercial houses and store buildings, manufactur-
ing plants of all descriptions and apartment houses designed for
the occupancy of more than three families, and all office build-
ings in the City of Salina shall be installed in metallic con-
duit or armoured cable approved by the National Board of Fire
Underwriters.
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(e) All wiring for electric power, electric ranges and
rectifiers, in whatsoever location shall be installed in metallic
conduit or approved armoured cable.
(f) All safety metallic switch boxes referred to in
Section (b) shall be of the safety inclosed type operated from
the outside of the inclosure so marked as to indicate plainly
without opening the enclosure whether the switch contained with-
in is in the "on'' or "off" position, and shall contain an.iapproved
service entrance switch and fuses. This box must be so arranged
that it can be sealed. The main service fuse must be in place
when the City Electrical Inspector makes his final inspection. He
will then seal this main service box. Only the City Electrician
or authorized employees of the Salina Tight, Pownr and Gas Company,
or, employees of the City sire Department shall have the authority
to break this seal for renewal of fuses or inspection. The seal
must be replaced by the party breaking it. In case.of emergency an
electrical contractor holding an active Certificate of Registra-
tion or his employee may break the seal to replace the fuse, bu.t.
in such case, the City Electrician or the Salina Light, Power and
Gas Company must be notified.. In all cases the party so notified
must make an inspection of the newly installed fuse and,seal the
entrance switch box.
(g) Circuit or branch fuses must be installed on all wiring
installations, in addition to the fuses called for in Section (f)
and must be accessible to the customers and of such size that
they will protect the circuits connected thereto.
(h) All wires running to out -buildings shall not be less
than Number Twelve (12) B & S Guage weather proof wire.
(i) All circuits for operating motors below five (5) Horse
Power and above 150 Volts shall have starting and. running fuses,
shall be equipped with a safety starting switch inclosed in a
metal cabinet and externally operated and shall be equipped with
cartridge fuses or approved Thernal cut-outs.
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(j)0 All.circuits for operating motors above five (5)
Horse Power capacity shall be equipped with a safety switch-en-
closed
witchen-
closed in a metallic cabinet and externally operated, equipped
with cartridge fuses and a starting device approved by the Company
to whose distribution system said installation is to be connected.
(k) The requirements of the Company to whose system all
installations of electrical wiring and apparatus are to be made
relative to service entrance location, meter location, size of
motor, kind of service available, etc. as long as they do not con-
flict with any section of this Ordinance or the National Electric
Code, shall be complied with by the installation.
Section 5.
No corporations, co -partnerships, associations
or individuals shall make any installation '�,of wiring for the trans -
witting of electrical current for light, heat or power, or make any
changes or additions to any wiring that has already been installed,
in or upon any buildings in the City of Salina without the owner
first obtaining a permit covering such work. A complete record
shall be kept by the Electrical Inspector of all such permits issued
and he shall make, upon request, a thorough inspection of all work
covered by such permits. Such inspections shall be made in accord-
ance with the rules of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and
Ordinances of the City of Salina that'have been enacted or may
hereafter be enacted and collect the following fees from the proper-
ty owner requesting such inspection at the following rates: For
the first 8 outlets for incandescent lamps or small portable appli-
ances, ten cents (10¢x) per outlet; for the next thirty-two (32)
outlets or small appliances, five cents (5�) each; and all over
forty (40) outlets, two cents (2¢) each; for motors ten cents (10¢x)
per Horse: Povier of manufacturers rating; for installing switches
or additional outlets in old wiring, ten cents (10¢) per outlet
for the first eight (8) additional outlets, and five cents (5¢)
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for.each additional outlet; for electric signs of thirty (30) out-
lets or less seventy-five cents (75�) andfor each additional light
one cent (IV,). All fees billed under the above schedule shall
become due and payable to the City of Salina immediately upon
the completion of the inspection and shall upon collection be
paid into the general fund of the City of Salina by the Electric-
al Inspector. who shall take the receipt of the City `treasurer
therefor.
Section 6. No electrical company shall connect any wires
to any building; for electric service or current until there is
presented to said company a certification of permission to make
such connections in writing and signed by the Electrical Inspect-
or. The Electrical Inspector upon completing the inspection of
any installation of electric wiring shall place on the outside
of the safety entrance switch box a tag signifying that the in-
stallation is ready for electrical service. If the Inspector
finds any portion of this entire installation contrary to any,
section of this ordira nce or the rules of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, he shall not place his tag of approval on the
installation until the same is changed to meet such requirements.
This requirement also applies to an old installation if building
containing same has been moved from one location to another.
Section 7. No wire or wires shall be installed, operated
or maintained over any street, alley, sidewalk or building in
this City which shall be liable to seriously interfere with the work
of the Fire Department in the use of ladders or other apparatus,
or which shall obstruct or render hazardous the use of fire escapes,
or which shall render any street, alley or sidewalk dangerous or
hazardous to any person traveling thereupon and on complaint of
the Chief of the Fire Department said obstructing, interfering
or hazardous wire shall be removed or properly re -arranged.
Section 8. TiVherever possible -and expedient signal wires
shall not be carried on the same pole or in dangerous proximity
to high potential electric light or power wires and where a joint
occupancy pole line composed of these two classes of systems cross
each other, the high potential electric light or pourer wires shall
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be placed and maintained not less than four (4) feet above
every signal wire, and where it is impossible to provide for
such a separation, it shall be the duty of the Electrical Inspect-
or to arrange: and enforce an equitable and safe alternative plan.
Section 9. The said Electrical Inspector shall make a thor-
ough inspection of all electrically wired buildings within the City
at least once in each year and where wires or appliances used
therein are in dangerous or unsafe condition so as to endanger
life or property or are deemed to be in interference with the work
of the Fire Department, he shall notify in writing, the person,
firm or Company owning, using or• operating them,-givi,ng them a
suitable period of time in which to place said defective wires
or appliances in a safe, secure and non -interfering condition.
Any person, firm or Company owning. using or operating said de-
fective wires or appliances, neglecting or refusing within said
time to make the necessary repairs or changes and have the neces-
sary work completed within the specified time shall be deemed
guilty of a violation of this ordinance. The -Electrical Inspect-
or shall then have authority to order the supplying Company to
discontinue electric service to said defective wires or appliances
until such defects shall be repaired in accordance with the re-
quirements of this ordinance.
Section 10. The -Electrical Inspector, by and with the con-
sent of the Board of Commissioners, shall have the power to
deputize one or more assistants and each one of said assistants
shall in every case be known to be competent to discharge the
duties of Electrical Inspector and the rights and privileges con-
ferred upon the Electrical Inspector are hereby conferred upon
each assistant to the Electrical Inspector when properly appoint-
ed.
Section 11. The said Electrical Inspector or competent
assistant appointed by him shall have the right during reasonable
hours to'enter any building, manhole or sub -way in the discharge
of his officialduties, or for the purpose of making any test of
the electrical apparatus or appliances therein contained, and for
that purpose he shall be given prompt access to all buildings
private or public and to all manholes and sub -ways, on application
to the company or individual owning or in charge or control of the
same .
Section 12. The,Chief Engineer of the Fire Department or said
Electrical Inspector, or a competent person delegated by them or
either of them shall have the power to at once cause the removal
of all wires, or the turning off of all electrical currents where
the circuits interfere with the work of the mire Department during
the progress of a fire. The said Electrical Inspector is hereby
authorized and empowered to cause the turning off of electric
current from all conductors or apparatus which are deemed by him
to be in an unsafe condition or.which have not been installed in
conformity with the provisions of this ordinance as provided in
Section Nine (9). No corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual or agent thereof, shall supply, or cause to be
supplied any electric current to conductors or apparatus which
has been deemed by said Electrical Inspector to be in an unsafe
condition or which have not been installed in conformity with
the provisions of this ordinance and from which the said Elec-
trical Inspector has caused the electric current to be turned
off .
Section 13. Any corporation, co -partnership, association or
individual or agent thereof, desiring tb. place any pipe, sheet -
metal or other material within six inches of any electrical wire
or wires installed for use in connection with electric light, heat
or power shall, before proceeding with the execution of the work,
obtain from the Electrical Inspector a permit therefor, and on
completion of said work the said corporation, co -partnership,
association or individual or agent thereof shall notify said
Electrical Inspector who shall inspect the same and cause all
wires to be placed in a safe and secure condition, provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be construed to refer
to wires installed in approved iron conduit.
Section 14. No corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual shall install any wires for the carrying or the
utilization of any electricity for light and power purposes in
any building in the process of construction until after all plumb-
ing and heating connections have been installed. This shall not
prevent the installation conduits or lead covered cable when same
is embedded in concrete and must be installed prior to the pour-
ing of the. concrete.
Section 15. No corporation, co -partnership, association
or individual or agent thereof shall interfere with the Electric-
al Inspector or any competent person or persons lawfully deputized
to assist him as hereinbefore provided, while in the performance
of duty and each such interference shall be. deemed to consti-
tute a separate offense within the intent and meaning of this
ordinance.
Section 16. Any corporation, co -partnership, association,
individual or agent thereof found guilty of violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance or neglecting or refusing to comply
with any orders or notice of the Electrical Inspector made pur-
suant to the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less
than Five ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Fifty (`50.00) Dollars and
the costs of prosecution for each and every offense.
Section 17. That Ordinance Number 1300, Ordinance Number
1313 and Ordinance Number 1937, all ordinances of the City of
Salina, Kansas together with all ordinances and parts of ordi-
nances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
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Section 18.' In event any portion of this ordinance shall
for any reason be held to be void or invalid the same shall not
effect or render imperative any other portion hereof.
Section 19. This ordinance shall take.effect and be in full
force from and after its publication once in the official City
paper .
Introduced for first reading,11ay 15th, 1922.
Passed and approved ......... May 22nd, 1922.
Attest: Mayor
Ci y Cl erk.