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[Adopted 5-28-1992, effective 7-1-1992]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN
Any person who holds himself or herself out to the public as a "journeyman electrician," who has completed his/her apprenticeship to the satisfaction of a duly authorized union or agency and who must be employed to perform his/her duties under the supervision of a firm or individual who is licensed by the City of Buffalo as a master electrician.
A. 
No person shall perform any electrical work as a journeyman electrician in the City of Buffalo without being licensed as hereinafter provided.
B. 
Any violation of this section shall be deemed to be the commission of an unclassified misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine or penalty of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each such offense.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
Said license shall be in printed form, containing the words:
City of Buffalo
Journeyman Electrician's License
Date: _________________
License No. __________ Fee __________ is hereby granted to ________________________ to perform electrical work as a journeyman electrician in the City of Buffalo, pursuant to applicable codes of said City, and the rules and regulations governing the installation of electrical work in said City.
Expires December 31, 20 _____
_____________________________________
Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
A card containing the wording on the aforesaid license, with blank spaces filled in, shall, at the time of issuance of said license by the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services, be issued to said applicant, who shall carry the same upon his person while in the performance of the electrical work, and said card shall be exhibited, upon demand, to any policeman or inspector of electrical work of said City or to any owner or agent on any premises upon which said electrician is doing work.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
Any person desiring to obtain a license to perform any electrical work as a journeyman electrician in the City of Buffalo shall first make application to the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services of said City, upon forms provided by said Commissioner, giving such details as are required by the Commissioner. The application shall contain:
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The name, age and address of the applicant.
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A statement of the kind of work in which the applicant has been engaged for the past five years.
C. 
A statement of the experience and qualifications of the applicant in the performance of electrical work.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
Upon receipt of the aforesaid application, the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services shall thereafter refer the same to the Examining Board of Electricians of said City, as now or hereafter constituted, for examination as to the qualifications of the applicant to do electrical work. The Examining Board of Electricians shall return to the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services said application, together with a statement of the Board's actions thereon.
In order to ascertain the qualifications of any applicant for a license as journeyman electrician, as herein provided, said Examining Board of Electricians, before registering said electrician, shall require the applicant to pass a test or examination as to his/her qualifications to do electrical work in said City. Said examination or test shall be conducted by the Board itself or by a firm or agency which has been selected by the Board pursuant to determination (by the Board) that said firm or agency is qualified to prepare and/or administer said examination on behalf of the Board.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
A. 
Every applicant for a license as a journeyman electrician aforesaid, after taking said examination and satisfactorily passing the same, shall be entitled to register his/her name and address with said Board under rules established by said Board. Upon so registering, said applicant shall receive a certificate of registration from said Board, which he/she shall present to the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services before receiving a license from said Commissioner. Upon receiving said certificate of registration, the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services may issue a license to said applicant to perform electrical work as a journeyman electrician in the City of Buffalo.
B. 
The Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services shall not issue any license, as herein provided, to any applicant therefor unless and until there has been filed in his office said application, together with a statement of the action of the Examining Board of Electricians and a certificate of registration in the name of the applicant, signed by the Examining Board of Electricians.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
The Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services may revoke any license issued to any person under the provisions of this article for cause after a hearing upon three days' notice to said person.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
City of Buffalo Electrical Inspectors shall report, in writing, to the City of Buffalo Chief Electrical Inspector in the Department of Inspections and Community Revitalization, or in whatever City agency the Chief Electrical Inspector may be employed at the time, the name of any journeyman electrician found installing any electrical work in the City of Buffalo without a certificate of registration or a license, as herein required, and said Chief Electrical Inspector shall then refer the matter to the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services for said Commissioner's action. The Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services shall thereafter inform, in writing, said Chief Electrical Inspector of the result of any action taken by him/her as aforesaid against any such unlicensed journeyman electrician.
[Amended 5-22-1995, effective 6-2-1995]
The fee for a journeyman electrician's license and the fee for each renewal of said license shall be as provided in Chapter 175, Fees. Each said license shall expire on the 31st day of the second December following the issuance of said license and shall be renewable thereafter biennially on the 31st day of December. The Examining Board of Electricians shall charge a fee as provided in Chapter 175, Fees, for each examination prepared and administered by said Board or shall direct examination candidates to make payment of a fee, in an amount approved by said Board, directly to an outside firm duly selected by said Board for the purpose of preparing and administering said examination on behalf of the Board.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
Every holder of a valid license hereunder shall, prior to December 31 of each year, make application to the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services for a renewal of the same. No renewal of said license shall be granted by the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services unless the applicant presents with his/her application for a renewal of license a certificate of registration obtained from the Examining Board of Electricians of said City. The renewal of said license shall be in the discretion of the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services who may for a reasonable length of time stay the renewal thereof pending investigation of any complaints or charges made against the applicant. No rebate of any portion of said annual renewal, however, shall be allowed pending such stay of license.
[Amended 4-30-2024]
A. 
In order to establish a record of his/her beginning an apprenticeship, every electrical apprentice or learner, regardless of age, who contemplates filing an application for a journeyman electrician license shall, within 60 days after the beginning of such apprenticeship, register with the Examining Board of Electricians on a blank furnished by said Board, setting forth the date on which the apprenticeship was begun, by whom employed or the trade school which he/she has attended and such other information as the Board may require, and which registration shall constitute a record of his/her apprenticeship and of his/her right to file an application for examination and license subject to the provisions of the application, sworn statement and the ordinances covering journeyman electrician licenses.
B. 
An apprentice cannot be placed in charge of work of installing electrical work and do such work along, neither can such apprentice install electrical work under the supervision of a master electrician when such master electrician or licensed journeyman electrician is not also physically present and taking an active part in the installation.