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ORDINANCE NO. 371____
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
PROVIDING FOR THE EXAMINATION AND LICENSING OF
JOURNEYMAN AND MASTER ELECTRICIANS, AND FOR RE-
VOKING SUCH LICENSES; ALSO PROVIDING THAT NO
LICENSE SHALL ISSUE FOR ELECTRICAL WORK OR
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING IN THE CITY OF LYNWOOD
WITHOUT COMPLI.ZCE 1WITH THE TERMS OF THE ORDIN-
ANCE; AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THE
PROVISIONS OF THE ORDINANCE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
EXAMINATION. No person, as principal, agent, manager
or employee, shall conduct, manage or carry on the trade, busi-
ness or calling of a master electrician, or work as a journeyman
electrician, or do any electrical work of any kind or description
in the City of Lynwood, for which an electrical permit is required,
without having first submitted to a practical examination before,
and obtaining from, the examining board of electricians in the
City of Lynwood a certificate of competency showing such person
to have sufficient practical experience and sufficient knowledge
to do electrical work. Any master electrician or journeyman
electrician who fails to pass the examination will not be allowed
to appear before the board for further examination until the ex-
piration of a period of sixty days from the date of such examin-
ation.
Section 2.
EXAMINING BOARD. The examining board of electricians of
the City of Lynwood shall consist of two Master Electricians and
one Journeyman Electrician who shall be appointed by the Mayor,
subject to the confirmation by the City Council, and shall serve
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during the pleasure of the City Council. The Electrical Inspector
of the City of Lynwood shall be a member, ex- officio, of the examin-
ing board, and shall act as Secretary to the board. At all meetings,
a majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. The members of the examining board shall receive such
compensation for their services as the City Council shall stipulate.
The examining board of electricians of the City of Lynwood is hereby
empowered to promulgate its own rules for examining and grading of
applicants, to conduct hearings, suspend and revoke licenses. Said
board shall keep a record of its proceedings and preserve for one
(1) year the examination papers of every applicant. Such records
are to be kept in the custody of the secretary of the examining board.
PROVIDED, HO'NEVER, that the master electrician and the
journeyman electrician on the examining board may be non - residents
of the City of Lynwood; and provided further that upon the recommen-
dation of the electrical inspector of the City of Lynwood, the City
Council may, in its discretion, approve the credentials of any appli-
cant when he shall have satisfactorily passed the examining board of
any municipal government in the County of Los tingeles and State of
California, upon an examination held by i1 for either master or
journeyman electricians.
Section 3.
EXAMINATION FEES. The fees for examination of electricians
by said examining board shall be Five Dollars ($5.00) for each Master
Electrician, and Two and a half Dollars ($2.50) for each Journeyman
Electrician. Every certificate of qualification shall be issued for
a period ending December 31st of the year of issue. Any such certi-
ficate may be renewed from year to year withcu t further examination
unless same has been cancelled or revoked. Every renewal shall be
made in not to exceed thirty ( 30 ) days from date of expiration of the
certificate, and any such certificate not so renewed shall become
null and void and may then only be renewed by the holder thereof
taking a new examination and paying the same fee as provided for in
this section. Said renewal fee for a qualification certificate for
a Master Electrician shall be Two dollars ($2.00), and for a Journey-
man Electrician, One Dollar 01.00).
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Section 4.
MASTER ELECTRICIANS. Any applicant successfully quali-
fied by examination as a master electrician will be deemed to be
qualified and be permitted to also act as journeyman electrician
if qualified as journeyman electrician so far as the requirements
of this ordinance are concerned. A master electrician, as pro-
vided for in this ordinance, may be the owner, proprietor, em-
ployee or corporation officer, but in all cases the Master Electri
cian shall be the person who isdirectly responsible for the
physical and mechanical manner in which electric materials,
equipment and devices are placed or installed. A master
electrician is empowered to countersign applications for electri
cal permits and to supervise electrical work authorized by such
p The name of the master electrician authorized as such,
the person, firm or corporation for whom permit applications are
are to be countersigned shall be set forth in the business
license, and it shall be unlawful for any master electrician
to countersign permit applications for more than one person,
firm or corporation. It shall be unlawful for any master
electrician to permit his name to be used or to knowingly permit
himself to be held out as the officer or employee of any person
holding an electrical contractor's license, unless he is in fact
such officer or employee and does in fact supervise the doing or
installation of electrical work performed by such person.
Section 5.
Every person, firm or corporation before being entitled
to receive a license as an electrical contractor shell first pass
the examination and receive a certificate as a ;Master Electrician,
or shall have in his employ at all times a duly certified master
electrician.
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Section 6.
JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN. For the purpose of this ordin-
ance, a journeyman electrician shall be deemed to be any person
who is employed to do electrical work for wages or salary, by
an electrical contractor, but who does not furnish any materials
or supplies in the execution or performance of electrical work.
Section 7.
APPRENTICE OR HELPER. The registration fee for helpers
or apprentice electricians shall be Fifty Cents. No examination
will be required. It will be unlawful to employ anyone as an
apprentice or helper electrician without a permit having been
obtained. An apprentice or helper shall be deemed to be anyone
other than a Journeyman electrician who does electrical construc-
tion work for pay or wages but does not furnish any material and
who may work only under the immediate supervision of a journeyman
electrician and on the same premises as said journeyman electri-
cian. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation holding
an electrical contracting license in the City of Lynwooa to employ
more than one (1) helper or apprentice to each oni (1) journeyman
electricians or fraction thereof on any one premises.
Section 8.
It is further ordained that no license shall issue for
electrical work or electrical contracting within the City of Lyn-
wood until the person, firm or corporation applying for the
license shall maintain some person duly licensed as a master
electrician at the licensees regular place of business.
Section 9.
It is further ordained that as soon as this ordinance
becomes effective the license collector shall notify all licensed
electrical contractors within the City of Lynwood of this ordin-
ance, and require that the licensee comply with the requirements
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of this ordinance within thirty (30) days thereafter. That if
such licensee shall not have complied with the requirements of
this ordinance within thirty (30) days after such notice, the
license collector shall at once cancel such license.
Section 10.
It is further ordained that any person, firm or corpor-
ation violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
a sum not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or imprisoned
in the city jail not exceeding sixty (60) days, or both such fine
and imprisonment.
It is further ordained that each and every day this
ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate offense for
f
which the person, firm, or corporation violating the ordinance
may be punished.
Section 11.
The City Clerk of the City of Lynwood shall certify to
the aaoption of this ordinance, to its approval and signature by
the mayor of said City, and to its attestation byethe City Clerk,
snail cause same to be published by one insertion in the Lynwood
Press ,a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated
in. the City of Lynwood, and thereafter the same shall become
effective according to law.
PASSED AND riDOPTED this lg ti-, day of ,.,av , 1942.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk, y o ynwoo , a i orn a
(SEAL)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
CITYTOFOLyN� ss.
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I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, California, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted by the City
Council of said City at a -
regular
meeting thereof held in the City Hall of said City,
da of T�;ia;� , 194 and
on the i9tn y
passed by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: ake P;1eyer,
+iillard and �41c1;Ieekin.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: 1 10 ' 1 " --
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: 'lone.
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