ORS Chapter 479 — Protection of Buildings From

ORS 479.630. (A) Obtains a master permit for inspection under ORS 479.560 (3); or (B) Obtains a master individual inspection permit under ORS 479.565. (7) In cases of emergency in industrial plants, a permit is not required in advance for electrical installation made by a person licensed as a general supervising electrician, a general journeyman electrician or an electrical apprentice under ORS 479.630 if an application accompanied by appropriate fee for a permit is submitted to the Department of Consumer and Business Services within five days after the commencement of such electrical work. (8)(a) A license or permit is not required for the installation or assembly of industrial electrical equipment by the duly authorized agents of the factory, vendor or owner. (b) The license and permit exemptions of this subsection do not apply to activity in an area where industrial electrical equipment is installed in or enters a hazardous location or penetrates or enters a fire rated assembly or plenum rated assembly. (c) As used in this subsection: (A) Duly authorized agents means individuals trained by the factory or a vendor or by experience and who are knowledgeable in the operation, maintenance, repair and installation of industrial electrical equipment. (B) Installation or assembly means the reassembly at a job site of equipment that is wired and assembled at the factory and then disassembled for shipping purposes or of existing equipment that is relocated. Installation or assembly does not include work involving field fabricated assemblies or any other electrical product that is not an original part of the industrial electrical equipment. Installation or assembly does not include the connection of industrial electrical equipment to a power source. (9) The provisions of ORS 479.510 to 479.945 and 479.995 do not apply to: (a) Electrical installations and repairs involving communication and signal systems of railroad companies. (b) Electrical installations and repairs involving remote and permanent broadcast systems of radio and television stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission if the systems are not part of the buildings permanent wiring. (c) The installing, maintaining, repairing or replacement of telecommunications systems on the provider side of the demarcation point by a telecommunications service provider. (d) The maintaining, repairing or replacement of telecommunications equipment on the customer side of the demarcation point by a telecommunications service provider. (e) Installations, by a telecommunications service provider or an appropriately licensed electrical contractor, of telecommunications systems on the customer side of the demarcation point except: (A) Installations involving more than 10 telecommunications outlets; and (B) Installations of any size that penetrate fire-resistive construction or air handling systems or that pass through hazardous locations. (f) Notwithstanding paragraph (e) of this subsection, installation of telecommunications systems on the customer side of the demarcation point in: (A) One and two family dwellings; and (B) Multifamily dwellings having not more than four dwelling units if the installation is by a telecommunications service provider. (g) Notwithstanding paragraph (e) of this subsection, installation or replacement of cord or plug connected telecommunications equipment on the customer side of the demarcation point. (h) Notwithstanding paragraph (e) of this subsection, installation of patch cord and jumper cross-connected equipment on the customer side of the demarcation point. (10)(a) The board may grant partial or complete exemptions by rule for any electrical product from any of the provisions of ORS 455.610 to 455.630 or 479.510 to