2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY - Examining Boards and Professional Colleges (§§ 1 — 6033) › Chapter 87 - Board of Examiners of Expert Electricians (§§ 2701 — 2722) › § 2707 - Licenses and requirements

Any person who hopes for a license as an apprentice expert electrician shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Fill out and submit an application before the Board, which shall provide the proper forms pursuant to the requirements of the regulations of the Board.
(2) Have attained the age of sixteen (16) years at the time of filing his/her application.
(3) Shall have completed the fourth year of high school, which fact must be fully established, or have passed the expert electrician apprenticeship course offered by the Department of Education or by a private institution duly accredited by the Council on Higher Education, and certified before the Board by a collegiate expert electrician, in the manner the Board may specify by regulations.
(4) File a medical certificate with the application showing that the person is physically and mentally fit to work in construction projects and with electrical machines and circuits, and a Criminal Record Certificate issued by the Puerto Rico Police, if said candidate is eighteen years of age and older. Upon evaluating said certificate, the Board shall be bound to the provisions established in § 16 of this title.
(5) Attach to the application the fees established by the Department of State through regulations, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 10 et seq. of this title.
(6) Shall have practiced as an apprentice expert electrician for the term of one year.
Any person who hopes for a license as [an] assistant expert electrician shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Fill out and submit an application before the Board, which shall provide the proper forms pursuant to the requirements of the Board through regulations.
(2) Have attained the age of eighteen (18) years at the time of filing his/her application.
(3) Have passed the fourth year of high school.
(4) File a medical certificate with the application showing that the candidate is physically and mentally fit to work in construction projects and with electric machines and circuits, and a Criminal Record Certificate issued by the Puerto Rico Police. On evaluating said certificate, the Board shall be subject to the provisions established in § 16 of this title.
(5) Attach to the application the fees established by the Department of State through regulations, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 10 et seq. of this title.
(6) Approve a written examination that will include the following subject matter:
(a) The OHM Act.
(b) Knowledge and identification of materials used in electrical installations.
(c) Knowledge of the laws that regulate the expert electrician’s profession in Puerto Rico.
(7) Every assistant expert electrician who possesses a license as such, who has worked under the supervision of collegiated [sic] expert electrician for a period of one year and has met the minimum requirements of one thousand (1,000) hours of study, may apply for his/her expert electrician’s examination. Provided, That the license issued shall be effective for two (2) years. Upon the expiration of that term, the license thus issued will lose its effectiveness and must be renewed through the payment of the fees that the Department of State may have established through regulations pursuant to the provisions of §§ 10 et seq. of this title, and meet all of the original requirements. The filing of an application for assistant expert electrician’s examination is not an authorization to work as such.
Any person requesting a license as an expert electrician shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Fill out and submit an application before the Board, which shall provide the proper forms pursuant to the requirements of the regulations of the Board.
(2) Have attained the age of eighteen (18) years at the time of filing his/her application.
(3) Have passed the fourth year of high school.
(4) Submit with the application, a medical certificate showing that the candidate is physically and mentally fit to work in construction projects and with electric machines and circuits, and a Criminal Record Certificate issued by the Puerto Rico Police. Upon evaluating said certificate, the Board shall be subject to the provisions of § 16 of this title.
(5) Attach to the application the fees established by the Department of State through regulations, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 10 et seq. of this title.
(6) Have graduated from an electrical program at a vocational institution or a technological institute of the public education system, or in lieu thereof, from a duly accredited private vocational institute, or licensed by one of the institutions created by law for such purposes, or be a graduate of an engineering program of a duly accredited university. Provided, That in both cases, the approved program shall include one thousand (1,000) hours of study, and also that the College of Technological-Occupational Training is hereby empowered to validate experience for hours of study, or in its defect, have finished the training course prescribed, or to be prescribed in the future, by the apprenticeship Council of Puerto Rico.
(7) Have practiced as Assistant Expert Electrician for at least one year.
(8) Be a resident of Puerto Rico.
History —June 2, 1976, No. 115, p. 334, § 7; June 22, 1977, No. 97, p. 218; June 12, 1980, No. 123, p. 443, § 6; renumbered as § 8 on Mar. 7, 1983, No. 4, p. 9, § 2; June 1, 1984, No. 46, p. 122, § 5; Nov. 6, 1992, No. 86, § 4; July 27, 1996, No. 84, § 1; July 27, 1996, No. 86, § 1; Feb. 29, 2004, No. 71, § 1.