Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 172 - Department of Career Education › Rule 172.00.15-006 - Proposed Revision to the Rules and Regulations for Electrician Apprenticeship Program

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION I.
AUTHORITY
The following Rules and Regulations are duly adopted and promulgated by
	 the Career Education and Workforce Development Board pursuant to the authority
	 expressly conferred by the laws of the State of Arkansas in ACT 1289 of 1997
	 and ACT 1122 of 2015 and transferred to the Arkansas Department of Career
	 Education through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Arkansas Department of
	 Labor and the Board of Electrical Examiners. The Department may exercise such
	 powers as are reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of Act 1289 of
	 1997 and ACT 1122.
SECTION
  II.
PURPOSE
The purpose of these Rules and Regulations is to transfer the authority
	 of overseeing the Apprentice Electrician Program from the Arkansas Department
	 of Labor and the Arkansas Board of Electrical Examiners to the Arkansas
	 Department of Career Education.
SECTION
  III.
DEFINITIONS
(a) The Board means the Career Education and
  Workforce Development Board.
(b)
  The Department means the Arkansas Department of Career Education.
(c) Board of Electrical Examiners means
  people designated by the Arkansas Department of Labor to determine the
  eligibility of applications for various types of licenses in accordance with
  Act 1289 of 1997.
(d) Employer
  means any master electrician representing himself or a company who signs an
  Apprenticeship agreement to abide by these Rules and Regulations of
  Apprenticeship.
(e) Apprentice
  electrician means a person other than a master or journeyman electrician,
  residential master or journeyman, industrial maintenance electrician, or air
  conditioning electrician as provided in these guidelines of apprenticeship who
  is at least sixteen (16) years of age and covered by the required
  apprenticeship agreements.
(f)
  Apprenticeship Agreement means a written agreement as provided by the United
  States Department of Labor/ Office of Apprenticeship (OA) signed by the
  Apprentice and (if the Apprentice is a minor) the parent or guardian, the Local
  Apprenticeship Committee and the participating company.
(g) OA means the United States Department of
  Labor, Office of Apprenticeship.
(h) State Electrical Apprenticeship Committee
  means people designated by the Board to assist in carrying out the provisions
  of ACT 1289 of 1997 as amended.
(i)
  Local Apprenticeship Committee means a group composed of master and/or
  journeyman electricians who are licensed as prescribed by law, plus one person
  who shall be appointed from the Arkansas Department of Career Education by the
  State Electrical Apprenticeship Committee chosen to carry out the provision of
  ACT 1289 of 1997 as amended.
(j)
  Master electrician means any person, licensed as prescribed by law, skilled in
  the planning, superintending and the practical installation of electrical work
  and familiar with the laws, rules, and regulations governing the
  same.
(k) Journeyman electrician
  means any person, licensed as prescribed by law, other than a master
  electrician or an apprentice electrician, who is engaged in the practical
  installation of electrical work.
(l) Industrial maintenance electrician means
  any person, licensed as prescribed by law, who maintains and/or extends
  electrical conductors and equipment for electrical power and control systems on
  or within industrial, manufacturing, or similar type facilities.
(m) Air conditioning electrician means any
  person, licensed as prescribed by law, who installs, maintains, or extends
  electrical conductors or equipment solely for the purpose of supplying heating
  and air conditioning and refrigeration units.