HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 06-1986MICROFILMED AUG 87
ORDINANCE 6 -86
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 617, "ELECTRIC
CODE ", BY REPEALING THE CHAPTER IN ITS
ENTIRETY AND ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER; BY
ADOPTING THE 1984 EDITION OF THE NATIONAL
ELECTRICAL CODE AND ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS;
REPEALING ALL PORTIONS OF THE CODE IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to adopt a
standard electrical code to facilitate proper inspection
activities by the City of Cape Canaveral relating to construction
and maintenance of buildings within the corporate limits of said
City and relating to public safety, health and general welfare.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Cape Canaveral, Florida, as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 617, Electric Code ", is hereby repealed
in its entirety and replaced with the following:
NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE
CHAPTER 617
Sec. 617.01 National Electrical Code Adopted. The 1984
Edition of the National Electrical Code is hereby adopted by
reference as though it were copied herein fully, with the
exception that any portion in conflict with the mandates
hereinafter stated are not adopted.
Sec. 617.03 Administrative Authority or Official.
Whenever the term Administrative Authority or Official is
used in the National Electrical Code, it shall be construed
to mean the Building Official of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, or his authorized representative.
Sec. 617.05 Service Disconnects Required.
A. A single service fused disconnect or circuit breaker
of a minimum of one hundred (100) amp capacity shall be
required in both residential and commercial buildings and
shall be located on the outside of the building. This
includes back to back services.
B. All apartments or condominiums with three (3) or more
stories shall each have overload protection outside the
building and inside each individual unit.
C. The height of the main switch or breaker shall not be
higher than seven (7) feet or less than four (4) feet from
the ground, measured from the center of the equipment.
Sec. 617.07 Service Wires.
A. All service entrance wires supplying current for
light, heat or power to any building, whether for
underground or overhead connections, shall be installed in
approved raceways. Neutral conductors shall be the same
size as live conductors for the first two hundred (200)
amps.
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B. Service conductors for all commercial buildings shall
not be smaller than one hundred (100) amps, installed in one
and one -half (14.) inch conduit.
C. Size of service wires and conduits for residences:
Minimum service to any residence shall be one hundred (100)
amps, installed in one and one half (11) inch conduit.
D. Service entrance wires for multifamily dwellings
shall not be smaller than one hundred (100) amp capacity,
installed in one and one -half (1i) inch conduit.
E. The service grounding conductor shall be a minimum of
Number Four (4) bare copper.
F. All service risers, excluding temporary service, used
as a support for power drop will be a minimum of two (2)
inch galvanized ridge conduit. Service drops will be in
accord with N.E.C. specifications.
Sec. 617.09 Breaking of Meter Seals. In case of
emergency, in order to protect life or property, a master
electrician or a journeyman, authorized by a master
electrician for the job, and no other person, may break the
meter seal, but in such case, the power company must be
notified immediately.
Sec. 617.11 Wiring Methods.
A. Approved rigid conduits, IMC, steel tube EMT, surface
metal raceways, underfloor raceways, cast -in -place raceways,
wireways, and busways shall be required for all wires used
to conduct current for light, heat or power in the wiring of
all churches, schools, commercial buildings and
manufacturing or business establishments, except that
flexible conduits, only by special permission of the
electrical inspector, may be used in rewiring of old
buildings when it is impracticable to use rigid conduits.
B. All electrical wiring within or on buildings which
are used as a combination of living quarters and business,
commercial and /or industrial establishments and alterations
and additions to such wiring in or on such existing
buildings shall be installed in a approved metal raceway
system using not less than twenty (20) amp capacity wire.
C. Aluminum conductors, Number Two (2) and larger, will
be approved when proper connectors, terminals and corrosion
inhibitor are used.
D. In all electrical installations, the conductors for
branch circuits shall be no smaller than twenty (20) amp
capacity. Maximum number of outlets per circuit on
residential buildings, ten (10) light or outlets or six (6)
receptacle outlets or eight (8) combinations with no more
than six (6) receptacles.
E. Steel tube EMT shall not be used in unsuspended
concrete slabs.
F. Dishwashers, refrigerators and all water pump systems
shall be on separate circuits. Disposers shall have a
switch within sight and reach, not to exceed six (6) feet.
G. Electric range circuits shall not be less than two
(2) Number Six (6) and one (1), Number Eight (8) wires. In
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the case of individual oven and surface units (built -in
ranges), they shall be separately circuited with proper
over - current protection for the size of the conductors and
equipment used.
H. Liquid -tight or rain -tight greenfield with approved
fittings shall be used in wet locations and all outdoor
installations, including sign connections.
I. All wiring in conduit shall be open for inspection
before switches, panel fronts, receptacles or covers are
installed.
J. A separate sign circuit shall be installed in all
stores or public buildings (new or remodeled).
R. Every kitchen shall have a minimum of two (2) duplex
appliance outlets, each on a separate circuit, a maximum of
three (3) per circuit.
L. Split bus panels shall not be installed in any
residential buildings.
M. Light outlets in clothes closets shall be installed
on the ceiling or over the door. Receptacles no higher than
one (1) foot from the floor will be permitted in clothes
closets for the use of approved mildew lights and heaters.
N. Portable cords attached to music boxes, pinball
machines, soft drink dispensers and other similar equipment
shall not exceed six (6) feet in length when measured from
the equipment to the outlet supplying the current. Cords
shall not be nailed down, tacked, stapled or held with
strings or other supports but shall be left free and clear.
0. All recess lighting outlets where slow burning wire
shall be used shall be complete with flexible conduit leads
installed, wires properly connected and taped and approved
covers placed on the outlet box before roughing -in
inspection is made.
P. Panels shall not be located in clothes closets,
bedrooms, bathrooms kitchens or in any location in which
maintenance would be performed from a damp or wet area.
Panels shall not be located within four (4) feet of any
sink.
Q. All concealed plumbing and other piping or duct work
shall be in place before the wiring inspection is called
for.
R. In the wiring of new buildings, two (2) spare
circuits shall be provided.
S. Circuit identification. The contractor shall
identify all branch circuits at the panel before calling for
final inspection.
T. All electrical water heaters shall have a circuit of
a minimum of Number Ten (10) copper gauge wire.
U. Any fan installed lower than six (6) feet, eight (8)
inches from the floor to the bottom of the blade, shall have
an approved protective guard enclosing the blade.
V. All bell ringing transformers must be located at the
load center or readily accessible places and the secondary
wiring shall not enter the same box with the primary wiring.
The bell or chime transformer may be placed in an approved
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V. All bell ringing transformers must be located at the
load center or readily accessible places and the secondary
wiring shall not enter the same box with the primary wiring.
The bell or chime transformer may be placed in an approved
manner on the ceiling or over the door in a closet as long
as it is readily accessible.
Sec. 617.13 Additions, Remodeling and Rewiring. In the
wiring of new buildings or the installation of new wiring in
old buildings or additions thereto, or in the remodeling or
alteration of old wiring where more than fifty (50) percent
of the existing wiring installation is remodeled or changed,
all wiring shall meet the present requirements of this Code.
All extensions to existing wiring shall be in accordance
with the standards of this Code. When wiring for any added
load is installed in a building, the service shall also be
revised and size increased to carry the new total load.
Where existing structures are moved to new locations and the
existing wiring is in apparent safe condition and existing
wiring installation is remodeled or changed, a new service
of a minimum of one hundred (100) amp conductors shall be
required.
Sec. 617.15 Electric Wiring for Swimming Pools. There
shall be no overhead lines, including power, telephone or TV
cable, etc., within ten (10) feet, measured horizontally,
from the water's edge.
Sec. 617.17 Submersible Lighting.
A. The use of one hundred twenty (120) volt lamps, when
assembled in submersible lighting units for illumination of
swimming pools, reflector pools or display fountains,
whether they are intended for side wall or pedestal
mounting, is hereby prohibited.
B. The permissible voltage that may be applied to lamps
used for such applications shall not exceed fifteen (15)
volts.
C. Transformers shall be located remotely from lighting
units which they supply and overcurrent protection shall be
provided in both primary and secondary wirings.
Sec. 617.19 Penalty. Any and all persons who shall
violate any of the provisions of this Chapter or shall fail
to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply
with any order or regulations made thereunder, or who shall
build in violation of any detailed statement or
specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder or
any certificate or permit issued thereunder, shall
severally for each and every such violation and
noncompliance, respectively, be punished as provided in
S801.01.
SECTION 2. All portions of the code in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon its adoption.
ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 1st day of April , 1986.
ATTEST:
4;/ //L.,
Mayor
First Reading , March 4, 1986
posted: _ 5, 1986
Advertise° March 8, 1986
Second Reading: April 1, 1986
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