amending Ordinance No. 2243 Section 814 Wiring and Apprartus General Provisions

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ORDINANCE NO. 3141 as amended AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE #2243 AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE #2925, THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE REGULATING ALL MATTERS CONCERNING OR PER- TAINING TO THE CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, REPAIR OR ADDITIONS TO, RE- MODELING, USE OR OCCUPACY OF BUILDINGS OR THEIR PARTS AND STRUCTURES OF EVERY NATURE IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA; PROVIDING FOR THE CONDEMNATION AND STOPPAGE OF THE USE THEREOF, AND THE WRECKING OF THE SAME, CREATING THE OFFICE OF BUILDING COMMISSIONER, ASSISTANT BUILD- ING COMMISSIONER AND CITY ELECTRICIAN AND PROVIDING FOR THE OFFICE OF THE BUILDING DEP$RTMENT, REPEALING ALL FORMER ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF CONFLICTING THEREWITH ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, MARCH 27, 1982 AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR MARCH30, 1922 AND PUBLISHED APRIL 6th OF THE SAME YEAR, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA; AND ADOPTING THE 1935 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE AND ITS AMENDMENTS AS A PART OF THIS ORDINANCE, EXCEPTING SUCH PARTS OF WHICH ARE LESS RESTRICTIVE Olk IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana; SECTION I — That section 514 of Ordinance #2925 be amended to read as follows: WIRING AND APPARATUS — GENERAL PROVISIONS 914—A All electrical work hereafter installed in the City of South Bend, Indiana shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the stand- ards of this code. All wiring for lighting, heating and power shall be installed in rigid metal conduit or electrical metallic tube when with— in the Fire or Fireproof Limits, of said City, as defined herein. All wiring outside the Fire or Fireproof Limits shall be wired in rigid conduct, electrical metallic tube or armored cable. All public buildings shall be wired in rigid conduit or electrical mettalic tube. For the purpose of this Code, public buildings are defined as fol- lows: Multi— family buildings of more than four apartments, libraries, storage, factories, theatres, places of amusement, hotels, clubs, hos- pitals, office buildings, institutional, churches, and schools, and gar- ages of more than floor space for two cars, and any other building classed as hazardous. 5111 --B All filling stations, oil warehouses and buildings of this nature shall be wired in rigid conduit or electrical metallic tube and where ex- posed to explosive vapors or gases, shall be equipped with explosion re- sisting type fittings approved for such use. 514 —C All lead covered conductors shall have a protection of rigid conduit unless it is of parkway cable type. 514—D Refrigeration rooms shall be wired in rigid conduit or electrical metallic tube using lead covered wired and approved water tight fittings, 514-E All service switches and meters shall be marked as to the area they serve. 514—F (A) Neutral conductors may be bare when enclosed in rigid conduit, armoured cable or electridal metallic tube. (B) A bare common neutral may be employed for not more than eight 15 amp. branch circuits on a. three wire single phase system and for not more then six branch circuits on a 4 wire 3 phase system. (C) The common bare neutral conductor shall have a current carrying capacity of at least 50% of the total carrying capacity of the insulated conductors. (D) In any group of circuits having a common neutral, the same number of circuits shall as nearly as possible be connected between neutral