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227A.060 Qualifications for licensure.
(1)
(2)
(3)
The department shall issue a license as an "electrical contractor" to an applicant
who meets the following requirements:
(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed two hundred
dollars ($200) and the appropriate examination fee, which shall not exceed the
actual cost of examination;
(b) Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the
examination required by the department. The department shall promulgate
administrative regulations to specify who shall take the examination if the
applicant is a business entity; and
(c) Has submitted proof that he or she has complied with workers' compensation
and unemployment insurance laws and administrative regulations and has
obtained a general liability insurance policy of not less than five hundred
thousand dollars ($500,000).
The department shall issue a license as a "master electrician" to an applicant who
meets the following requirements:
(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed one hundred
dollars ($100) and the appropriate examination fee not to exceed the actual
cost of the examination;
(b) Has completed:
1.
a.
Six (6) years of verifiable experience in the electrical trade since
his or her sixteenth birthday; and
b.
A training course in electrical work, acceptable to the department,
or an additional two (2) years of verifiable experience in the
electrical trade; or
2.
a.
Five (5) years of verifiable experience in the electrical trade since
his or her sixteenth birthday; and
b.
An associate's degree or diploma program in electrical technology
at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical
College System after 1998; and
(c) Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the
examination required by the department.
The department shall issue a license as an "electrician" to an applicant who meets
the following requirements:
(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50)
and the appropriate examination fee not to exceed the actual cost of the
examination;
(b) Has completed:
1.
a.
Four (4) years of verifiable experience in the electrical trade since
his or her sixteenth birthday; and
b.
A training course in electrical work, acceptable to the department,
(c)
or an additional two (2) years of verifiable experience in the
electrical trade; or
2.
a.
Three (3) years of verifiable experience in the electrical trade since
his or her sixteenth birthday; and
b.
An associate's degree or diploma program in electrical technology
at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical
College System after 1998; and
Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the
examination required by the department.
Effective: June 8, 2011
History: Amended 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 19, effective June 8, 2011. -- Amended
2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 433, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts
ch. 6, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 119, sec. 6,
effective June 24, 2003.
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