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Iowa Code (Last Updated: December 05, 2016) |
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Title III. PUBLIC SERVICES AND REGULATION |
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Chapter 103. ELECTRICIANS AND ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS |
Section 103.32. State inspection fees.
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1. All state electrical inspection fees shall be due and payable to the board at or before commencement of the installation and shall be forwarded with the request for inspection. Inspection fees provided in this section shall not apply within the jurisdiction of any political subdivision if the political subdivision has adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to this chapter.
2. The board shall establish the fees for inspections in amounts not to exceed:
a. For each separate inspection of an installation, replacement, alteration, or repair, twenty-five dollars.
b. For services, change of services, temporary services, additions, alterations, or repairs on either primary or secondary services as follows:
(1) Zero to one hundred ampere capacity, twenty-five dollars plus five dollars per branch circuit or feeder.
(2) One hundred one to two hundred ampere capacity, thirty-five dollars plus five dollars per branch circuit or feeder.
(3) For each additional one hundred ampere capacity or fraction thereof, twenty dollars plus five dollars per branch circuit or feeder.
c. For field irrigation system inspections, sixty dollars for each unit inspected.
d. For the first reinspection required as a result of a correction order, fifty dollars; a second reinspection required as a result of noncompliance with the same correction order, seventy-five dollars; and subsequent reinspections associated with the same correction order, one hundred dollars for each reinspection.
3. When an inspection is requested by a property owner, the minimum fee shall be thirty dollars plus five dollars per branch circuit or feeder. The fee for fire and accident inspections shall be computed at the rate of forty-seven dollars per hour, and mileage and other expenses shall be reimbursed as provided by the office of the state fire marshal.
4. For installations requiring more than six months in the process of construction and in excess of three hundred dollars total inspection fees, the persons responsible for the installation may, after a minimum filing fee of one hundred dollars, pay a prorated fee for each month and submit it with an order for payment initiated by the electrical inspector.
5. A state electrical inspection fee shall not be assessed for an event benefiting a nonprofit association representing volunteer service providers. An electrical inspection fee shall not be assessed by a political subdivision for an annual event benefiting a nonprofit association representing volunteer service providers.
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