2006 Kansas Code - 12-1526

      12-1526.   Rules and regulations relating to examination and licensure; certificate of competency; uniform fee required; where licenses valid. (a) Any county or city requiring the licensure of electricians practicing within the county or city may conduct examinations designated by K.S.A. 12-1525, and amendments thereto, for the purpose of determining the competency of applicants for such licensure and shall not be allowed to ask further questions not designated on such examination. The board of county commissioners of such county or the governing body of such city shall adopt rules and regulations: (1) Governing the conduct and grading of such examinations; (2) prescribing a minimum score of 75% for passage of examinations; and (3) fixing a uniform fee to be charged all applicants taking each such examination.

      (b)   The certificate of competency received by any person who successfully passes an examination designated by K.S.A. 12-1525, and amendments thereto, shall be valid proof of competency for licensure, without additional examination, in any county or city of the state which requires licensure of electricians practicing within such county or city. The county or city shall issue the appropriate license to any applicant therefor who presents such a certificate of competency. The county or city shall fix a uniform fee to be charged all such applicants for licensure.

      (c)   All licenses issued by a county or city upon the basis of successful passage of an examination designated by K.S.A. 12-1525, and amendments thereto, shall bear a distinctive notation of such fact. All such licenses shall be valid in any other county or city which requires examination and licensure of electricians for practice in such county or city.

      (d)   No person who was certified or licensed prior to July 1, 1989, upon the basis of passage of a standard examination designated as such under the provisions of article 15 of chapter 12 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and whose certificate or license was issued by a political subdivision which prescribed a minimum score of not less than 70% for passage of such examination, shall be required to be reexamined for renewal of certification or licensure.

      History:   L. 1986, ch. 65, § 2; L. 1989, ch. 59, § 12; July 1.