A. The city council declares that the national safety standards for such materials, devices and appliances on file in the office of the United States Bureau of Standards are the minimum standards required to provide an adequate degree of safety to life and property in said city, and further declares that it has incorporated said national safety standards in its “Code of Standards for Electrical Materials, Devices and appliances in the City of Bakersfield.”

B. The city council declares that there is need for uniformity between national safety standards and local standards and that it is one of the objects of this chapter that as technological progress and refinements are made in national safety standards that similar progress and refinements be made in local safety standards, and to that end the city council declares that it is necessary that certain administrative rulemaking power be vested in the chief electrical inspector of the city in order to carry out the intent and purpose of this chapter and to provide the city and its inhabitants with the degree of safety required to adequately safeguard life and property in said city. (Prior code § 7.22.040)