1888ORDINANCE NO. $~`t~
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE NATIONAL
ELECTRICAL CODE, 1999 EDITION, PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATIONS OF SUCH REGULATION.
BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS:
SF.C'TION 1. There is hereby adopted by the City of West Memphis, Arkansas, pursuant
to Act No. 267 of the Acts of General Assembly of Arkansas, 1949, for the purpose of
establishing rules and regulations governing the use of electricity for light, heat, power, radio
signaling, and for other purposes, the National Electrical Code, 1999 Edition, of which not less
than three (3) copies shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of West Memphis,
Arkansas, and same aze hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein
adopted and from the date on which this Ordinance shall take effect, the provision thereof shall be
controlling within the City Limits of the City of West Memphis, Arkansas.
SF.C'TION 2. It shall be the duty of the Electrical Inspector to see that this Code is
enforced.
SF.C'TTON 3. Any person, firm or corporation who shall fail to comply with any of the
provision of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for any one (1) specified offense or violation
of this Ordinance, or double that sum for each repetition of such offense or violation. If anything
prohibited or rendered unlawful by this Ordinance is, in its nature, continuous in respect to time,
the fine or penalty for allowing the continuance thereof, in violation of this Ordinance, shall not
exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for each day that it may be unlawfully continued.
~F.C;TTON 4. Ordinances numbered 751, 807, 825, 1201, 1354, 1516, 1715 and1818 of
the City West Memphis, Arkansas, and all other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
herewith aze hereby repealed.
PASSED AND APPROVED this ~{ ~ day of No vennber , 19 ~.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Mayor
ATTEST:
PHILLIP ,City Clerk
RECEIVED
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