1171 ORD TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO 1076 SO THAT SUCH ORDINANCE SHALL HEREINAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:

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w Adb. Ah a Sectioa 13 continued: governed by the same procedure as set forth for a Journeyman Electrician and other specifications of thia Ordinance. Bond is optional w3.th the employer. The licensing fee is $20.00 per year for each man so employed. Electric Repair Shop: The term Electrical Repair Shop shall mean any per9on,, firm or corporation engaged in the busineas of altering, repairing or maintaining eleetrically operated equipment or radios and shall include any authorized person, whether aetually doing eleetrical repair work or not and any person who sub aontracta to do such work, but does not include bonafide employees employed by such shop to do or supernise such work. The lieensing fee is $10.00 per year. All circuses, carnivals and road shows using portable equipment must employ an Electrical Contractor to supervise all installations. Texa.s Power & Light Compa.ng, its agents or employees or other Utility recogni.zed by the City of Paris are to make all connections from the power and light lines to the Electrical service. It is unlarrful and a viola.tion of this Ordinance for others to do so. Authority of Inspectors: The Electrieal Inspeetor or Electrical Inspectors shall have full police power and shall have the right to arrest ar~y person who violates any of the regulations of thia Ordinance. He or they shall have the authority to call the police to assist him in perfornii.ng his duty and it will be the duty of any member of the police department to so assist when requested. The fisaal year for the payment of liQense and registration for electrieian.a shall begin on the First of January each yeax and end on the last day oP December. Any requeat ma.de after July First eaah yeax shall be charged one half of the yearly rate. Shou].d aay certificate.holder governed by thie Ordinance take up another ocaupa- tion or profeasion or otherwise indicate that he has abandoned his occupation as an electrician or contractor, even though he may apply for registration each yeax, he sha].1 be required to be examined every ttao yeaxs in order to mai.ntain his registration. Should any aertificate lapse for more than aix months, the holder shall be eonsidered as a new applicant, and another examination before the board of Electrical Examiners shall be required. Suspension: Upon presentation to the mayor of charge that the holder of any certificate of registration has will.fully or consistently violated a.ny provisions of this Ordinance or is incompetent to comply with such procisions, or such person, firm or corporation has been found gnilty of violating any such ordinances, the Mayor sha11 fix a time and place for a meeting of the board of Electrical Exami.ners to consider such charges and shall notify the holder of the certificate to be present at such meeting. Such notification shall be in writing and shall be delivered to the holder at least five days in adnance of the meeting. Upon conviction the holder shall have his certificate revoked or suspended for not less than thirty days and not more than two years, Home Owner's Rights: Nothing herein contained shall prohibit any bonafide home owner from personally installing electrical conductors within his own home provided that the owner shall file with the Electrical Inspector as to his ability to install electrical wiring; apply for and seoure a permi.t; pay required f ees; do work in accordance with this ordinance; apply for an inspection, and receivecertificate of approealo Personal inatallation by an owner under these Home Owner 'lights shall be by himself,, on his own homestead premises, wlthout compensation, and no peraon sha11 be employed to assist him in any way on such worko Any electrical devices, signa, apparatus or appliances manufactured within the City shall be inspeeted by the Electrical Inspector before it is sold or installed, Condemnation: When the Electrical Inspector condemns all of part of any electrical installation, the owner may within five (5) days after receiving wr3.tten notice thereof, file a petition in writing for review of said aetion of the Electrical Inspector by the Eleetrical Exami.ning board, upon receipt of which they shall at once proceed to determine facts, and wlthin five days shall make a decision in accordance with their findings. -6-