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90_HB2953
65 ILCS 5/11-33-1 from Ch. 24, par. 11-33-1
65 ILCS 5/11-37-3 from Ch. 24, par. 11-37-3
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Allows a
municipality to adopt reasonable rules and regulations
governing the examination of, licensing of, regulation of,
and fees for persons installing or altering electrical
equipment.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
2 Sections 11-33-1 and 11-37-3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
6 changing Sections 11-33-1 and 11-37-3 as follows:
7 (65 ILCS 5/11-33-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-33-1)
8 Sec. 11-33-1. Electrical contractors. The corporate
9 authorities of each municipality may require the registration
10 of electrical contractors, and may impose an annual
11 registration fee of $25 on each registered contractor. An
12 electrical contractor who is registered in one municipality,
13 however, shall not be required by any other municipality to
14 be registered or to pay a registration fee in the other
15 municipality.
16 The term "electrical contractor," as used in this
17 Section, means any person engaged in the business of
18 installing or altering by contract electrical equipment for
19 the utilization of electricity for light, heat, or power. But
20 the term "electrical contractor" shall not include the
21 installing or altering of (1) radio apparatus or equipment
22 for wireless reception of sounds and signals, or (2)
23 apparatus, conductors, or other equipment installed for or by
24 public utilities, including common carriers, that which are
25 under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission,
26 for use in their operation as public utilities. Nor shall the
27 term include the employees employed by an electrical
28 contractor to do or supervise his work.
29 Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the corporate
30 authorities of a municipality from implementing the rules and
31 regulations authorized under Section 11-37-3 of this Code.
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1 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
2 (65 ILCS 5/11-37-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-37-3)
3 Sec. 11-37-3. The electrical commission shall recommend
4 (1) safe and practical standards and specifications for the
5 installation, alteration, and use of electrical equipment
6 designed to meet the necessities and conditions of the
7 particular locality, (2) reasonable rules and regulations
8 governing the issuance of permits by the electrical
9 inspection department, and (3) reasonable fees to be paid for
10 the inspection by the inspection department of all electrical
11 equipment installed or altered within the municipality, and
12 (4) reasonable rules and regulations governing the
13 examination of, licensing of, regulation of, and fees for
14 persons installing or altering electrical equipment. The
15 standards, specifications, rules, regulations, and fees so
16 recommended shall not become effective until adopted by
17 ordinance by the corporate authorities of the municipality.
18 All fees so adopted shall be paid into the municipal
19 treasury.
20 In a municipality that which has established an
21 electrical inspection department, no electrical equipment
22 shall be installed or altered except upon a permit first
23 issued by that department. The electrical inspection
24 department shall issue permits for the installation and
25 alteration of electrical equipment in all cases where
26 application is made in accordance with the rules and
27 regulations applicable thereto. That department shall inspect
28 all electrical equipment installed or altered in the
29 municipality and shall require that it conform to the
30 standards and specifications applicable and adopted as
31 provided in this section.
32 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)