Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-10-10
Ordinance No. IA

An Ordinance providing for the Office
of City Electrician, and regulating
the manner in which conduits, wires
and other installations for convey
ing electricity shall be inspected
and approved, and establishing a
system of permits and fees therefor.
Section l. Be it Ordained by the Common
Council OF the City OF North Wildwood, Cape
Nav County, New Jersey, that there shall be
established in said city an office TO be known
as that Of "City Electrician which once
shall he filed by appointment by the Com
mon Council. No person shall be ellglole 10
hold such Office who shall not be a com petent
electrician OF at least three years practical
e. experience. He shall hold office TOR one year
and until his successor shall be duly chosen
and qualified; and shall, within hve days
after his appointment, deliver TO tne Guy
Clerk a bond in the sum OF Five Hundred
Dollars, conditioned Tor the faithful perfor-
nance OF his duty.
Section 2. 1t snall be the duty of the City
electrician to make tests of street lamps at
such times as the Lighting Committee OF the
Common Counc may direct. To keep IN
proper condition a nre alarm SYSTEM, ano ali
electrical wires used by the city. To inspect
all new electrical installation and c~onstruc-
ton, and all connections with buildings, both
inside and outside, and to order any detective
construction repaired, removed or rebuilt
whenever in his judgment life or property Is
endangered thereby. He shall see that all
laws and ordinances now In force or that may
hereafter be enacted governing the use or in
staIlation of electric wires or appl ances are
complied with, and that all work done con-
forms TO the rules and requirements OF The
National Board OF Fire Underwriters, or such
other board or organization as may nave au-
thority regarding the same. The CITY Elec-
trician shall have the right, during reason
able hours, to enter any building in the city
for the purpose OF carrying out the duties OF
his Office.
any person or corporation to place, erect, add
to, change or alter any wires to be used for
the transmission OF electric current, or to
cause the same TO be done or TO make any
electrical connections whatever without first
filing with the City Electrician a plan show
ing the work to be done, and obtaining from
said official a permit, tor which there Shall
be paid to him at the time the application is
made, the following rates:
n) Motors and Generators:
From l to 10 Qnclusive) horsepower
f PROM ~ to So GncIusiyeJ horsepower 'AOO
or 5.OU
From 81 to 40 dnclusive) horsepower
Al horsepower or kilowatt and over... 800
small fan or desk motors same as
for incandescent lamps.
~ ~Incandescent Lamps, including Incandes-
cent Arcs:
to light Gnclusive) .............~... rs
to 10 lights Qnclusive) .........."""Sl.50
IL to 20 lights Inclusive ...-.-............ go
81 to 80 lights Inclusive ......~...".... 800
81 to so lights Qnclusive) .................. 400
81 to 100 lights (inclusive) ....m........... 5 90
For each additional leo lights or
traction LUZ
(3) Fixture Work:
A fee Tor fixtures shall be charged. the
charge to be the same as provided for in
above clause providing for fees, and In
candescent lamps to be used on said fix
ture to determine the amount OF the lee TO
be charged therefor.
For a sign no permit shall be less than
81. 80, but when there are more than thirty
lights then 1t shall be one-halt the regular
fee.
(5) A charge OF IS cents will be made for ex-
ira inspection after work is reported fin
ished, If the work is found not to be cor
rect. The City Electrician shall keep a
record OF all such permits and fees there
for, and shall on the first day OF each
month pay all amounts collected by him
to the City Clerk OF the City OF North
Wildwood, Cape May County, New Jer-
sey, taking a receipt therefor.
Section 4. The City Electrician shall re-
ceive as com pensation for his services an
amount equal to one.half OF the fees paid over
by him to the City Clerk, in accordance with
the provisions OF this ordinance, which shall
be his salary as such official
Section 5. 1t shall hereafter be unlawful
for any person or persons or corporation to
erect or replace poles, turn any electric cur
rent on any wires hereafter run, or any cleo
trical connections hereafter made until the
City Electrician shall have examined ana
such work after the completion OF
the same, and until said City Electrician
shall have issued and delivered a certificate
OF inspection and approval to the person en-
titled thereto, and if the said City Electrician
shall after inspection diSapprove such work,
then such current shall not be turned on.
Section 6. And be it further ordained, that
apy person or persons who shall violate any
OF the provisions OF this ordinance, SHALL upon
conviction thereof before a proper officer
having Jurisdiction, be subjected to a fine in
any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars,
at the discretion of such officer before whom
any such person or persons may be tried, and
in default OF the payment OF said fine be i'm.
prisoned in the city or county Jail tor a term
not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion
OF said officer, and any repetition OF any act
herein prohibited on any one day following
such conviction, shall be deemed a new
offence.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect
Immediately after having been passed and
published according to law.
Passed first reading september I'd, 1919.
Passed second and third readings October
7th, 1919.
Approved October eth, 1919.
JAMES MCLINDEN, Mayor.
~Attest-George A. Redding, City Clerk.