103.32 - STATE INSPECTION FEES.

        103.32  STATE INSPECTION FEES.
         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.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2007 Acts, ch 197, §42, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §100, 202; 2009
      Acts, ch 179, §117