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2017 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 10 - ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS AND JOURNEYMEN
Section 54-1002 - LICENSE ESSENTIAL TO ENGAGE IN BUSINESS — LICENSURE AUTHORITY EXCLUSIVE TO THE STATE.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 54-1002 (2017)
54-1002. License essential to engage in business — Licensure authority exclusive to the state. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation, to act, or attempt to act, as an electrical contractor or special electrical contractor in this state until such person, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation, shall have received a license as an electrical contractor, as herein defined, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by the administrator of the division of building safety.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a journeyman electrician in this state until such person shall have received a license as a journeyman electrician, as herein defined, issued pursuant to the provisions of this act, by the administrator of the division of building safety, provided, however, that any person who has been issued a master electrician’s license pursuant to this chapter may act as a journeyman electrician.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a specialty electrician in this state until such person shall have received a license as a specialty electrician, as herein defined, issued pursuant to the provisions of this act, by the administrator of the division of building safety, provided however, that any person who has been issued a master electrician’s license or a journeyman electrician’s license pursuant to this act may act as a specialty electrician.
(4) Licensure of electrical contractors, journeyman electricians, master electricians, specialty electricians, specialty electrical contractors and registration of apprentice electricians shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the state pursuant to this chapter and no local jurisdiction shall have the authority to require additional licensure or to require payment of any fees in order for any licensee to engage in the electrical construction trade within the local jurisdiction or to issue licenses to persons licensed under this chapter which are inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or rules promulgated by the division of building safety. The state shall investigate all local infractions and state violations of this chapter and prosecute the same. The local jurisdictions will assist the state by requesting investigations within their jurisdictions. Nothing in this chapter shall restrict a city or county from imposing stricter public safety rules, notwithstanding any provision of Idaho Code.
History:
[54-1002, added 1947, ch. 251, sec. 2, p. 681; am. 1961, ch. 311, sec. 4, p. 583; am. 1974, ch. 39, sec. 79, p. 1023; am. 1986, ch. 296, sec. 1, p. 743; am. 1996, ch. 421, sec. 40, p. 1430; am. 1997, ch. 397, sec. 1, p. 1259; am. 1999, ch. 99, sec. 1, p. 312; am. 1999, ch. 367, sec. 1, p. 968; am. 2000, ch. 39, sec. 1, p. 77; am. 2002, ch. 139, sec. 1, p. 391.]
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