Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 158 - Construction Industries Board › Chapter 40 - Electrical Industry Regulations › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 158:40-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Act"
means the Electrical License Act as found
				  at 59 O.S. § 1680,
et seq
.
"Administrator"
means the Administrator of the
				  Board as described in the Construction Industries Board Act found at 59 O.S.
				  § 1000.1,
et seq
.
"Alarm Endorsement"
means a licensed electrician
				  or registered electrical apprentice who has met the endorsement requirements
				  and holds a current valid electrical license or registration may install,
				  service, or repair alarm or security systems or electronic security devices
				  such as residential or commercial burglar alarms or security systems,
				  electronic access control, closed circuit television, nurse call systems and
				  the like pursuant to the regulations governing that electrical license or
				  registration.
"Applicant"
means any person applying for an
				  examination, for a license or registration, for continuing education approval,
				  for review of plans and specifications, or for an electrical code variance from
				  the standard of installation as described in OAC
				  158:40-1-4
				  by the Board under the Act.
"Apprentice"
means an electrical worker
				  registered pursuant to OAC
				  158:40-5-1
				  who is limited to working for a contractor and is directly supervised by a
				  licensed contractor or journeyman with the appropriate license classification
				  for the work being performed.
"Associated with and responsible for"
means the
				  relationship between an electrical contractor and electrical firm based on the
				  electrical contractor being a permanent employee, owner, partner, or officer in
				  a corporate firm, and whereby the electrical contractor shall give full time to
				  the supervision and control of operations necessary to secure full compliance
				  with the provisions of the Electrical License Act and this Chapter.
"Board"
means the Oklahoma Construction
				  Industries Board.
"Bonds and Insurance Unit"
means the
				  consolidated unit that processes bonds and insurance under the direction of the
				  Construction Industries Board.
"Cheating"
means any unapproved deviation from
				  any official instruction given before, during or after a license examination,
				  for the purpose of affecting or influencing the examination results or
				  otherwise providing an undue advantage to any examinee.
"Committee"
means the Committee of Electrical
				  Examiners.
"Contracting"
means engaging or offering to
				  engage in, on behalf of oneself or on behalf of another, any electrical work
				  which requires a valid and appropriate license from the Construction Industries
				  Board as required by the Electrical License Act, regardless if said work is in
				  exchange for monetary payment or otherwise.
"Contractor"
means a person who meets the
				  definition of 59 O.S. § 1682(5) and is licensed in the appropriate
				  category for any electrical work performed.
"Continuing Education Credit Hour"
means at
				  least sixty (60) minutes of classroom instruction.
"Direct supervision"
means the on-the-job
				  physical presence by the supervisor who must be in the work area where the
				  electrical work is being performed and who also must be a licensed electrical
				  contractor or electrical journeyman in the appropriate category for any
				  electrical work supervised.
"Electrical facility"
means wiring, fixtures,
				  appurtenances and appliances used for and in connection with a supply of
				  electricity, but excludes the connection with a power meter or other utility
				  supply source or other statutory exclusions such as alarm system work (59 O.S.
				  §1800.3(4)), and data, voice and home theater audio/visual communications
				  except for fire alarm systems, security systems and environmental control
				  systems that are not an integral part of a telecommunications system.
"Electrical firm"
means any firm, corporation,
				  partnership, sole proprietorship, joint venture or any other business entity
				  engaged in the business of planning, contracting, supervising or furnishing
				  labor or labor and materials for the installation, repair, maintenance or
				  renovation of electrical facilities according to the Act.
"Electrical License Unit"
means the staff and
				  administrative support unit to the Committee of Electrical Examiners and the
				  Electrical Hearing Board.
"Electrical maintenance"
means electrical work
				  limited to maintaining existing electrical systems, facilities or equipment by
				  an employee of a person, company, corporation or entity owning the electrical
				  systems, facilities or equipment. Maintenance shall not include any alterations
				  or additions to existing systems, facilities or equipment.
"Electrical work"
means work as that term is
				  defined in 59 O.S. § 1682.
"Hearing Board"
means the Electrical Hearing
				  Board created by the Act.
"Inactive contractor"
means any class of
				  licensed electrical contractor who does not have current bond and insurance to
				  be able to be contracting for electrical work pursuant to the act. An inactive
				  contractor works as a journeyman electrician.
"Journeyman electrician"
or
"journeyman"
means any person, other than a contractor or
				  apprentice, who engages in the installation, repair, maintenance or renovation
				  of electrical facilities according to the Act, in the category in which the
				  person is licensed.
"Limited electrical contractor"
means any person
				  who has qualified and become licensed in accordance with OAC
				  158:40-7-4.
				  Such person is prohibited from engaging in the work of a journeyman
				  electrician.
"Military electrical experience"
means
				  verifiable military experience in electrical work which is the same as or
				  similar to electrical construction work as defined in the Act.
"Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission"
or
"OUBCC"
means the state agency created under 59 O.S. §
				  1000.20,
et. seq
., and authorized to adopt all building codes
				  and standards for residential and commercial construction to be used as minimum
				  standards by all entities within this State.
"Reciprocity agreement"
means an agreement
				  whereby a person holding an electrical license or registration who is licensed
				  in other states with substantially similar or greater licensure requirements
				  may be licensed in this State after payment of a fee for licensing by
				  reciprocity.
"Refinery Electrical Journeyman"
means an
				  electrician licensed as a refinery electrical journeyman electrician pursuant
				  to OAC
				  158:40-7-6
				  and is limited to performing electrical work only in refinery facilities.
"Residential contractor"
means an electrician
				  licensed as a residential contractor pursuant to OAC
				  158:40-7-2
				  and is limited to performing residential electrical construction work.
"Residential journeyman"
means an electrician
				  licensed as residential journeyman electrician pursuant to OAC
				  158:40-7-2
				  and limited to performing residential electrical construction work.
"Temporary electrical journeyman"
means an
				  electrician temporarily licensed by the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board
				  as a journeyman electrician and is limited to electrical construction per the
				  equivalent temporary journeyman classification determined by the Board.
"Variance"
means the use of an alternative
				  material or method of construction from that prescribed in the standard of
				  installation as described in OAC
				  158:40-1-4
				  for use at a particular location or project specified in the variance
				  application; and
"Variance and Appeals Board"
means the Oklahoma
				  State Electrical Installation Code Variance and Appeals Board.
Added at 19 Ok Reg 726,
				  eff 1-22-02 (emergency); Added at 19 Ok Reg 1269, eff 5-28-02; Amended at 19 Ok
				  Reg 3039, eff 8-13-02 through 7-14-03 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2655,
				  eff 7-26-03; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 2341, eff
				  8-25-11