CHAPTER 550
ELECTRICAL INSPECTION PROGRAM—ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
661—550.1(103) Electrical inspection program. The electrical inspection program is created as a section within the building code bureau in the fire marshal division of the department of public safety. The program is under the general supervision of the state fire marshal and the direct supervision of the building code commissioner, and shall be headed by a chief electrical inspector. The program shall enforce requirements for electrical installations adopted by the electrical examining board in 661—Chapter 504.
661—550.2(103) Communications. The electrical inspection program may be contacted by telephone within Iowa at 866-923-1082 (toll-free) and from outside Iowa at (515)725-6147; or by U.S. mail or in person at the following address:
State of Iowa Electrical Inspection Program
Fire Marshal Division
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Wallace State Office Building
502 East 9th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
Note: The Web site of the electrical inspection program, as of October 29, 2008, is www.dps.state.ia.us/fm/electrical/inspection/.
661—550.3(103) Organization. The electrical inspection section shall be headed by a chief electrical inspector. Reporting directly to the chief electrical inspector shall be electrical inspector supervisors, each of whom shall head a unit which shall include a number of electrical inspectors assigned by the building code commissioner and the chief electrical inspector. Each unit supervisor may designate electrical inspectors as lead workers with the approval of the chief electrical inspector and consistent with any applicable rules of the department of administrative services.
661—550.4(103) Qualifications of inspectors. Electrical inspectors, electrical inspector supervisors, and the chief electrical inspector shall be certified as commercial and residential electrical inspectors no later than one year after starting employment in any of these positions. Certification shall be obtained from the International Association of Electrical Inspectors, P.O. Box 830848, Richardson, TX 75080-0848, as both a certified electrical inspector – residential and as a certified electrical inspector – master, or from the International Code Council, 5203 Leesburg Pike, Suite 600, Falls Church, VA 22041, as both a residential electrical inspector and a commercial electrical inspector. Each of the persons employed in these classifications shall also meet any requirements established by the department of administrative services, human resource enterprise, for the job classification in which the person is employed.
661—550.5(103) Fees. The following fees shall apply to services provided by the electrical inspection program:
	550.5(1) For each separate inspection of an installation, replacement, alteration, or repair, $25.
	550.5(2) For services, change of services, temporary services, additions, alterations, or repairs on either primary or secondary services as follows:
	a. 	Zero to one hundred ampere capacity, $25 plus $5 per branch circuit or feeder.
	b. 	One hundred one to two hundred ampere capacity, $35 plus $5 per branch circuit or feeder.
	c. 	For each additional one hundred ampere capacity or fraction thereof, $20 plus $5 per branch circuit or feeder.
	550.5(3) For field irrigation system inspections, $60 for each unit inspected.
	550.5(4) For the first reinspection required as a result of a correction order, $50; a second reinspection required as a result of noncompliance with the same correction order, $75; and subsequent reinspections associated with the same correction order, $100 for each reinspection.
	550.5(5) When an inspection is requested by an owner, the minimum fee shall be $30 plus $5 per branch circuit or feeder. The fee for fire and accident inspections shall be computed at the rate of $47 per hour, and mileage and other expenses shall be reimbursed.
	550.5(6) For installations requiring more than six months in the process of construction and in excess of $300 total inspection fees, the persons responsible for the installation may, after a minimum filing fee of $100, pay a prorated fee for each month and submit it with an order for payment initiated by the electrical inspector.
	550.5(7) For issuance of a permit and performance of an initial inspection when an installation has been commenced with no Permit and Inspection Request form having been filed, twice the fees that would have been applicable if a timely request for permit and inspection had been filed.
These rules are intended to implement 2007 Iowa Acts, chapter 197.
[Filed 10/29/08, Notice 9/24/08—published 11/19/08, effective 1/1/09]