1818ORDINANCE NO. 18 ~ 8
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE NATIONAL
ELECTRICAL CODE, 1996 EDITION, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATIONS OF SUCH REGULATION.
BE TT HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WE5T
MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS:
SE TION 1. There is hereby adopted by the City of West Memphis, Arkansas,
pursuant to Act No. 267 of the Acts of the 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 Electric Code, 1996 Edition, of which not less than
three (3) copies shall be filed in the office of Clerk of the City of West Memphis, Arkansas, and
same are 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.
SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Electrical Inspector to see that this Code is
enforced.
SECTION 3. F.T.EC'TRTCAT. WIR_TNCx.
(A) All electrical wiring No. 10 AWG and smaller installed in the City of West Memphis,
Arkansas, shall be copper or copper-clad aluminum.
(B) No plain aluminum wire in these sizes shall be used.
SECTION 4. 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 surn 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 TT_ON 5. Ordinances numbered 751, 807, 825, 1201, 1384, 1516 and 1715 of the
City of West Memphis, Arkansas, and all other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
PASSED AND APPROVED this ~_ day of I" flart,h , 19 ~'~ .
AL BOALS, Mayor
ATTEST:
D CRAFT, Cler
SPONSORED BY:
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