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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Wheat Ridge, Colorado be and hereby is repealed.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
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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
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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:
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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
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