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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 776 THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF ELECTRICIANS, CONTRACTORS, ETC., UNDER THE ELECTRICAL CODE FOR THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-77:2126 ON JULY 18, 1977)
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
Section 1: Section 6 of Ordinance No. 776 is amended as follows: Licensed Electricians to Report Names, etc., of electricians and apprentices employed by them.
All licensed electricians shall report to the board the name, address, the telephone number of all licensed electricians and registered apprentices employed by them. Any licensed electrician failing to comply with this provision may be suspended. The reporting of the above information is to be done before January 31 of each year and within 30 days of the employment of any new electrician or apprentice.
Section 2: Section 8 of Ordinance No. 776 is amended as follows:
Bond Requirement: All persons doing business in the City of Jonesboro as a licensed electrical contracting business shall keep filed with the City Clerk a bond in the penal sum of $5,000.00 with an incorporate insurance company authorized to do business in the city as surety, which bond and surety shall be approved by the City Clerk.
The condition of such bond shall be that the principle and surety shall indemnify the city for its own use, and/or to any citizen against loss by improper electrical work; that the principle shall strictly comply with the ordinances of the city governing such work; that the principle shall do or suffer no work to be done without a permit and will report work done for inspection by the electrical inspector in conformity with the laws of the city. Said bond shall be renewed annually, not later than January 31st.
Any licensed electrician not licensed within the City of Jonesboro, will be required to post a bond, as required above, while working on any electrica...
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