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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1975-0193 - Repeal WR Ord 106 - Electrical CodeINTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN CAVARRA ORDINANCE NO. 193 Series of 1975 Repealing Ordinance No. 106 TITLE: AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 106 OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO PERTAINING TO AN ELECTRICAL CODE AS PART OF THE BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE AND ADOPTING A REVISED ELECTRICAL CODE: SAID ELEC- TRICAL CODE BEING ADOPTED AS A PRIMARY CODE IS THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE OF 1975 EDITION, SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO, THAT: Section 1. Ordinance No. 106 of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado be and hereby is repealed. Section 2. The following new articles and sections be and are hereby enacted: ARTICLE I. ELECTRICAL CODE Section 1. The Purpose of the Electrical Code. The purpose of this code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, con- struction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, loca- tion and maintenance of all. buildings, structures and utilities and certain equipment specifically regulated herein. Section 2. National Electrical Code-Adoption by reference. The National Electrical Code, 1975 Edition, copyright by the National Fire Protection Association, is hereby adopted by reference thereto and incorporated into this Article as though fully set out herein as the Electri- cal Code of the City. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, such code is adopted in full, including the ORDINANCE NO. 193 PAGE z index and appendix contained therein. Section 3. National. Electrical Code-Amendments. The National Electrical Code, 1975 Edition, adopted by the proceeding Section is hereby amended as follows: (Section numbers refer to Section numbers of the National Electrical Code.) A. Section 336-3 USE. Paragraph (c). Uses not Permissible for Either NM or NMC Non-Metallic-Sheathed Cable. Change the entire paragraph to read- These types shall NOT be used as: (1) service entrance cable, (Z) in any Group A, B, C, D, E, F or G Occupancy (as defined in the Uniform Building Code, 1973 Edition, Chapter 5, Table SA.) (3) in any hazardous location, (4) embedded in poured ce- ment, concrete or aggregate, (S) and as secondary feeder from the main service to individual panelboards in Group H Occupancies. B. Section 310-1 is amended by adding a new paragraph which reads: Aluminum conductors under Size 8 are not allowed. This does not preclude copper clan aluminum conductors. Section 4. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force five (S) days after publication following final passage, providing it shall have been passed by an affir',ative vote of three-fourths of the members of the City Counsel. Otherwise, said Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after publication, following final passage. INTRODUCED, PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on first reading this 3rd day of November , A.D. 1975, by a vote of 6 to 0 ORDINANCE NO. 193 PAGE 3 PASSED, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final reading tiis 24th day of November A.D. 1975, by a vote of 5 to 0 HOMER L. ROESENER, MAYOR ATTEST: ~ rr 11 EL L BROUGHAM, TY CLERK CERTIFICATION OF PUBLISHING I, Elise Brougham, herebv certify that Ordinance 193 was duly published in the Wheat Ridge Sentinel on the 6th day of November, 1975 after first reading. it Elise Brougham, hereby certify that Ordinance 193 was duly published in the Denver Post on the 3rd _ day of December, 1975 after second reading. F,uSE BROUGHAM, TY CLERK 17