Alabama Administrative Code › Title 303 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS › Chapter 303-X-2 - OPERATIONS OF THE BOARD › Section 303-X-2-.01 - Qualifications For An Electrical Contractor's License

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
The Board shall have the power to determine the requirements
				for licensing a person to be an electrical contractor.
(1) All applicants for licensure must submit
			 a completed application, application fee, personal identification and
			 supportive documents before taking an examination approved by the Board. After
			 reviewing the documents submitted, the Board may approve or deny an applicant's
			 request to sit for the examination. The Board shall examine applicants at least
			 once every three (3) months according to the method deemed by it to be the most
			 appropriate to test the qualifications of applicants.
(2) The scope of licensing for an electrical
			 contractor includes installation, design, plan, lay-out and directly
			 supervising electrical construction activities. This work supervised must be
			 commercial, industrial, or residential.
(3) An electrical contractors' license in the
			 state of Alabama is unlimited in voltage and bid requirements.
(4) An applicant for state wide electrical
			 contractor license must document to the Board's satisfaction a minimum of eight
			 thousand (8,000) hours of experience in the overall design, planning, lay-out,
			 and direct supervision of electrical construction activities and the soliciting
			 and installing of electrical power or control systems This requirement may be
			 satisfied with the documentation of eight thousand (8,000) hours of experience
			 as a journeyman electrician in charge of jobs.
(5) The applicant's electrical construction
			 experience and activities must be truthfully, clearly and sufficiently
			 documented on the application where indicated.
(6) The applicant for an electrical
			 contractor's license may substitute (1) year of education consisting of two (2)
			 full time semesters or three (3) full time quarters in an approved electrical
			 curriculum or one (1) year of an approved apprenticeship program for one
			 thousand (1,000) hours of electrical experience. A maximum of two thousand
			 (2,000) hours of the eight thousand (8,000) hours total requirement can be met
			 with the substituted hours. The applicant must provide appropriate
			 documentation of the substituted hours in an electrical curriculum or
			 apprenticeship program, subject to the approval of the Board.
(7) All applications submitted to the Board
			 to qualify to sit for the electrical contractor's examination expire in two
			 years from the approval date if the applicant has not successfully passed the
			 requisite examination and fulfilled the requirements for licensing by the
			 Board. If an applicant seeks to be qualified to take an examination to be
			 licensed as an electrical contractor after the expiration date, a new
			 application must be submitted to the Board.
(8) An applicant for an electrical contractor
			 license that has passed any national standardized examination proctored by an
			 independent third party within the State of Alabama which the Board shall
			 approve as substantially similar to the examination required to be licensed
			 under this chapter shall be deemed to be in compliance with the testing
			 requirement set forth by the Board for licensure as an electrical contractor.
			 Individuals meeting this qualification shall also be required to complete all
			 other qualifications set forth by this chapter and the Board prior to the
			 issuance of a license. Applicants affected by this provision shall have until
			 August 31, 2012 for licensure without any further examination
			 requirements.
(9) All licenses
			 shall expire annually or at other times designated by the Board.
(10) No electrical contractor license shall
			 be issued except in compliance with this act and none shall be issued except to
			 a person or a person in a firm, partnership, association or
			 corporation.
(11) The Board may
			 recognize a license issued by any other reciprocating state that, in the
			 Board's opinion, has standards of practice or licensure equal to or greater
			 than those required by this state. A list of the approved reciprocal states is
			 maintained at the Board office. The Executive Director shall review and approve
			 or deny all applicants for a reciprocal license.
(12) An applicant for an electrical
			 contractor's license that holds a valid professional engineer's license
			 registered in the state of Alabama is qualified to sit for the requisite
			 examination.
(13) No provisional
			 license will be renewed after June 30, 2024. A person who currently holds an
			 active provisional license issued by the board, and has held that license for
			 at least 10 (ten) years, continuously, may apply to take a nationally
			 standardized proctored examination approved by the board before the current
			 provisional license expires. The board will pay for the first examination for
			 each provisional licensee; if the provisional licensee does not appear for the
			 exam after registering or fails the first exam, they will be responsible for
			 the costs of successive exams. Every provisional licensee must be registered to
			 take the examination no later than January 1, 2024 and must have passed the
			 examination no later than June 30, 2024 to continue to practice electrical
			 contracting after June 30, 2024. All provisional licenses will expire on June
			 30, 2024. If the provisional licensee passes the board's examination at a rate
			 of at least 75%, he or she is entitled to receive a state electrical
			 contractor's license from the board upon payment of the license fee. Practicing
			 electrical contracting in this state without a license issued by the board is a
			 violation of Ala. Code §
								34-36-16(b).
Author:
Hendon B. Coody
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §§
										34-36-5,
et
				  seq
.