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.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 103.32

  • Board: means the electrical examining board created under section 103. See Iowa Code 103.1
  • Inspector: means a person certified as an electrical inspector upon such reasonable conditions as may be adopted by the board. See Iowa Code 103.1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 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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