Ordinance 2001-06
ORDINANCE NO. ~/- C1.p
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS, ADOPTING THE
1999 EDmON OF THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, AND
REPEALING WYLIE ORDINANCE NO. 94-53; PROVIDING FOR A
PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING
FOR REPEALING, SAVINGS AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSES;
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION HEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas ("City Council") has
investigated and determined that it would be advantageous and beneficial to the citizens of
the City of Wylie, Texas ("Wylie") to adopt the 1999 Edition of the National Electrical
Code and to repeal Wylie Ordinance Nos. 94-53; and
WHEREAS, the Construction Board and the building official for Wylie have
reviewed the 1999 Edition of the National Electrical Code and both recommend adoption of
the same by the City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: Findin2s Incoroorated. The findings set forth above are incorporated
into the body of this Ordinance as if fully set forth herein.
SECTION 2: Adootion of the 1999 National Electrical Code. The National Electrical
Code, 1999 Edition, copyrighted by the National Fire Protection Association is hereby adopted
as the electrical code for Wylie. One (1) copy of the 1999 National Electrical Code are on file in
the office of the City Secretary of Wylie being marked and designated as the National Electrical
Code, 1997 Edition, copyrighted by the National Fire Protection Association.
SECTION 3: Amendments to Article 210.
A Article 210-61 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Article 210-61. Uses other than Dwelling Units. The following listed
buildings shall have a minimum of one receptacle installed for every 20 linear feet
measured horizontally around the interior wall at the floor level of each room,
excluding storage rooms:
( a) Office buildings.
(b) Mercantile buildings.
( c) Restaurants.
(d) Taverns.
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(e) Bank buildings.
(t) Mechanical garages.
(g) Studios
SECTION 4: Amendments to Article 220.
A Article 220-22 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 220-22. Feeder or Service Neutral Load. The feeder or service
neutral conductor shall be sized no smaller than the size of the ungrounded
conductors.
Exception: The feeder or service neutral conductor may be downsized a
maximum of two wire sizes provided that the electrical calculations are submitted
by an electrical engineer and approved by the building official.
SECTION 5: Amendments to Article 230.
A Article 230-2(a) of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 230-2 (a) Special Conditions. Additional services shall be permitted
to supply
(1) Fire pumps
(2) Emergency systems
(3) Legally required standby systems
(4) Optional standby systems
(5) Parallel power production systems
(6) In supplying electrical service to multifamily dwellings, two or more
laterals or overhead service drops shall be permitted to a building when
both of the following conditions are met:
a. The building has six or more individual gang meters and all
meters are grouped t the same location.
b. Each lateral or overhead service drop originates from the same
point of service.
c.
B. Article 230-71(a) of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 230-71 (a) General. The service disconnection means for each service
permitted by Section 230-2, or for each set of service-entrance conductors
permitted by Section 230-40, Exception Nos. 1 or 3, shall consist of not more than
six switches or six circuit breakers mounted in a single enclosure, in a group of
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separate enclosures, or in or on a switchboard. There shall be no more than six
disconnects per service grouped in anyone locations. For the purpose of this
section, disconnecting means used solely for power monitoring equipment or the
control circuit of the ground fault protection system, installed as part of the listed
equipment, shall not be considered a service disconnecting means.
Exception: Multi-occupant Buildings. Individual service disconnecting
means is limited to six for each occupant. The number of individual disconnects
at one locations may exceed six.
SECTION 6: Amendments to Article 250.
A Article 250-50 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 250-50. Grounding Electrode System. If available on the premises at
each building or structure served, each item ( a) through (d), and any made
electrodes in accordance with sections 250-52(c) and (d), shall be bonded together
to form the grounding electrode system. The bonding jumper( s) shall be installed
in accordance with sections 250-64(a), (b), and (e), shall be sized in accordance
with Section 250-66, and shall be connected in the manner specified in Section
250-70.
An unspliced grounding electrode conductor shall be permitted to be run to any
convenient grounding electrode available in the grounding electrode system or to
one or more grounding electrode( s) individually. It shall be sized for the largest
grounding electrode conductor required among all the electrodes connected to it.
The grounding electrode conductor shall be unspliced or spliced by means of
irreversible compression-type connectors listed for the purpose or by the
exothermic welding process.
Interior metal water piping located more than 5 ft (1.52 m) from the point of
entrance to the building shall not be used as a part of the grounding electrode
system or as a conductor to interconnect electrodes that are part of the grounding
electrode system.
Exception: In industrial an commercial buildings where conditions of
maintenance ans supervision ensure that only qualified persons will service the
installation and the entire length of the interior metal water pipe that is being used
for the coqductor is exposed.
Where a metal underground water pip, as described in item (a), is present, a
method of grounding as specified in (b) through (d) below shall be used.
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FPN: See Sections 547-8 and 547-9 for special grounding and bonding
requirements for agricultural buildings.
Paragraphs (a) through (d) of Section 250-50 will remain as written in the 1999
National Electrical Code.
B. Article 250-1 04(b) of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section 250-104(b) Metal Gas Piping. Each interior portion of a metal gas
piping system upstream from the equipment shutoff valve shall be sized in
accordance with Table 250-122 using the rating of the circuit that may energize
the gas piping.
SECTION 7: Amendments to Article 310.
A Article 310-2 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 310-2. Conductors
(a) Insulated. Conductors shall be insulated.
Exception: Where covered or bare conductors are specifically permitted
elsewhere in this Code.
FPN: See Section 250-184 for insulation of neutral conductors of a solidly
grounded high-voltage system.
(b) Conductor Material. Conductors in this article shall be of copper.
Aluminum or copper-clad aluminum conductors shall not be used in the City
of Wylie as an electrical conductor.
B. Article 310-15(b)( 6) of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section 310-15(b)(6) 1201240-Volt, 3-Wire, Single-Phase Dwelling Services
and Feeders. For dwelling units, conductors, as listed in Table 310-15(b)(6)
shall be permitted as 120/240-volt, 3-wire, single-phase service-entrance
conductors, service lateral conductors, and feeder conductors that serve as the
main power feeder to a dwelling unit and are installed in raceway or cable with or
without an equipment grounding conductor. For application of this section, the
main power feeder shall be the feeder( s) between the main disconnect and the
lighting conductors to a dwelling unit shall not be required to be larger than their
service-entrance conductors. The grounded conductor shall be permitted to be
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smaller, than the ungrounded conductors, provided the requirements of Sections
215-2, 220-22, and 230-42 are met. This section shall not be used in conjunction
with Section 220-30.
SECTION 8: Amendments to Article 336.
A Article 336-5 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Article 336-5. Uses Not Permitted.
(a) Types NM, NMC, and NMS cables shall not be used in the following:
(1) In any multifamily dwelling or other structure exceeding three floors
above grade.
F or the purpose of this article, the first floor of a building shall be that
floor that has 50 percent or more of the exterior wall surface area level
with or above finished grade. One additional level that is the first level
and not designed for human habitation and used only for vehicle
parking, storage, or similar use shall be permitted.
Exception: An additional level shall be permitted in multifamily
dwellings where the entire structure is protected throughout by an
approved automatic sprinkler system.
(2) As service-entrance cable
(3) In commercial garages having hazardous (classified) locations as
provided in Section 511-3
(4) In theaters and similar locations, except as provided in Article 518,
Places of Assembly
(5) In motion picture studios
(6) In storage battery rooms
(7) In hoistways
(8) Embedded in poured cement, concrete, or aggregate
(9) In any hazardous (classified) locations, except as permitted by Sections
501-4(b), Exception, 502-4(b), Exception, and 504-20
(10) In non-residential metal frame structures
(b) Types NM and NMS. Types NM and NMS cable shall not be installed
in the foll<?wing:
(1) Where exposed to corrosive fumes or vapors
(2) Where embedded in masonry, concrete, adobe, fill, or plaster
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(3) In a shallow chase in masonry, concrete, or adobe and covered with
plaster, adobe, or similar finish
SECTION 9: Amendments to Article 336.
A Article 550-13 of the 1999 National Electrical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Article 550-13. Calculations. The following method shall be used for supply-
cord mobile homes only. All others shall follow 310-15 (6) Dwelling Services
and Feeders.
SECTION 10: Penalty Provision. Any person, firm, corporation or business entity
violating this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00),
unless the violation relates to fire safety, zoning or public health and sanitation, including
dumping and refuse, in which the fine shall not exceed the sum of TWO THOUSAND AND
NOIlOO DOLLARS ($2,000.00). Each continuing day's violation under this Ordinance shall
constitute a separate offense. The penal provisions imposed under this Ordinance shall not
preclude Wylie from filing suit to enjoin the violation. Wylie retains all legal rights and
remedies available to it pursuant to local, state and federal law.
SECTION 11: Savin2s/Reoealin2 Clause. All provisions of any ordinance in conflict
with this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent they are in conflict; but such repeal shall
not abate any pending prosecution for violation of the repealed ordinance, nor shall the repeal
prevent a prosecution from being commenced for any violation if occurring prior to the repeal of
the ordinance. Any remaining portions of said ordinances shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 12: Severabilitv. Should any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase
of this Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, it
is expressly provided that any and all remaining portions of this Ordinance shall remain in full
force and effect. Wylie hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each
section, subsection, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more
sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION 13: Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective from and after its
adoption and publication as required the City Charter and by law.
PASSED ~ROVED by the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas this
of-L1:Vl , 2001.
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Joel Scott, Mayor Pro Tern
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Richard Abernathy, City Attorney
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Wylie, Texas 75098
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STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF COLLIN
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Chad Engbrock, of THE WYLIE
NEWS, a newspaper regularly published in Collin County, Texas and having general circulation in Collin
County, Texas, who being by me duly sworn. deposed and says that the foregoing attached
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was published in said newspaper on the following dates, to-wit:
March 21
, 2001, and
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Chad ngbrock
Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 31
to certify which witness my hand and seal of office.
,2001,
Notary Public in and for
The State of Texas
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Serving Wideawake Wylie Since 1947
ORDINANCE NO.
2001-06
AN ORDINANCE OF
THE CITY OF WYLIE,
TEXAS, ADOPTING
THE 1999 EDITION OF
THE NATIONAL ELEC-
TRICAL CODE AND
REPEALING WYLIE
ORDINANCE NOS. 94-
53; PROVIDING FOR A
PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS
ORDINANCE; PROVID-
ING FOR REPEALING,
SAVINGS AND SEVER-
ABILITY CLAUSES;
PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THIS ORDINANCE;
AND PROVIDING FOR
THE PUBLICATION OF
THE CAPTION HERE-
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JGilll lV!OnUy, ;vwyor
Attest: Barbara .';aJinas
City Secretary 43-lt-339