2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 227 - FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION -- ELECTRICIANS 227.491 Certification of an electrical installation by an inspector -- Invalidation by another inspector prohibited -- Certification and inspection of electrical installation without seal prohibited.
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227.491 Certification of an electrical installation by an inspector -Invalidation by another inspector prohibited -- Certification and
inspection of electrical installation without seal prohibited.
(1)
(2)
(3)
An electrical inspector who certifies an electrical installation shall furnish and
attach an approval sticker, bearing his or her signature and certification number
in a conspicuous place on the main service entrance equipment. He or she
shall also provide the owner of the electrical installation or his or her authorized
agent with a certificate of approval if the same is requested. A complete record
of each inspection shall be kept by the inspector and these records shall be
made available to the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction upon
its request.
No electrical inspector shall:
(a) Attempt to supplant, overrule, or otherwise invalidate the judgment of
another electrical inspector whose services for a particular building,
structure, or other project have been solicited by an owner, contractor,
municipality, or other person without first obtaining express written
consent from the designated inspector's office supervising the original
inspector;
(b) Certify unlicensed or unlawful electrical installations;
(c) Certify or inspect an electrical installation in a manufactured home or
mobile home where the certified installer seal is not present pursuant to
KRS 227.570; or
(d) Certify or inspect an electrical installation in a previously owned
manufactured home or a previously owned mobile home when a Class B1
seal is not present as required by KRS 227.605.
Failure of an electrical inspector to observe subsection (2) of this section shall
subject that inspector to review by the commissioner of housing, buildings and
construction with possible suspension of certification for a period not to exceed
one (1) year from the date of the commissioner's ruling.
Effective:July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 407, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 2, effective January 1, 2009. -- Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 83, sec. 3, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts
ch. 188, sec. 222, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 117,
sec. 47, effective July 1, 1978. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 3.
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