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REL/fm 2/19/81 ORDINANCE NS-15?9 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTION 8-667, 8-720, 8-828, 8-829, 8-843 AND 8-1025 AND REPEALING SECTIONS 8-915, 8-933, 8-945, AND 8-1080 THEREOF TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 1981 EDITION, WITH AMENDMENTS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Section 8-667 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 8-667. Adoption by reference. There is adopted by the City that certain code known as the National Electrical Code, 1981 Edition, and the whole thereof save and except such portions as are deleted by the amendments set forth in this Article, of which said code not less than three (3) copies have been and are on file in the office of the Clerk of the Council of the City. The said code is adopted and incorporated as fully as if set forth at length herein, as provided for in Section 419 of the Charter of the City, and subject to all amendments set forth in this article, shall be in effect within the City of Santa Ana from the effective date of this ordinance. Any provision of this article amending the "Electrical Code" or "National Electrical Code" shall be construed as amending the said adopted code, 1981 Edition, including such provisions enacted prior to the enactment of this ordinance and not thereafter repealed. The said adopted code, 1981 Edition, as thus amended, together with all other provisions of this article, shall be known as the Electrical Code of the City of Santa Ana. SECTION 2: That Section 8-720 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 8-720. Same - Expiration. Every permit shall expire and become null and void for any one or more of the following reasons: 1. Whenever the electric wiring authorized by a permit is not conunenced within one hundred eighty (180) from the date of issuance of such permit. days 2. Whenever the electric wiring authorized by a permit has been suspended, abandoned, or discontinued for a continuous period of one hundred eighty (180) days. 3. Whenever the electric wiring done during any continuous period of one hundred eighty (180) days amounts to less than ten (10) percent of the total of the electric wiring authorized by such permit. Before recommencing, proceeding with, or doing any electric wiring authorized by, but not done before expiration of any such permit, a new permit shall be obtained therefor, and the fee for such permit shall be the fee required for a new permit.