West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 87 - Fire Commission › Title 87 - LEGISLATIVE RULE FIRE COMMISSION › Series 87-02 - Electrician Licensing Rules › Section 87-2-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Master
				Electrician" - means a person with at least five (5) years of electrical work
				experience, including experience in all phases of electrical wiring and
				installation, who is competent to instruct and supervise the electrical work of
				Journeyman and Apprentice Electricians. A master electrician must have a
				comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the National Electrical Code, and
				the ability to read electrical plans, drawings and designs to calculate demand
				loads in compliance with the National Electrical Code.
2.2. "Journeyman Electrician" - means a
				person qualified by at least four (4) years of electrical work experience to do
				any work installing wires, conduits, apparatus, equipment, fixtures, and other
				appliances subject to supervision by a master electrician. A journeyman
				electrician shall have a knowledge and understanding of the National Electric
				Code as it pertains to the installation of wires, conduits, apparatus,
				equipment, fixtures and other appliances. A journeyman electrician cannot
				design electrical systems.
2.3.
				"Apprentice Electrician" - means a person with interest in and an aptitude for
				performing electrical work. The Apprentice is not capable of installing wires,
				conduits, apparatus, equipment, fixtures and other appliances by
				himself.
2.4. "Specialty
				Electrician License" - means a person qualified to perform electrical work in a
				limited or specialized area. The following specialty electrician licenses may
				be issued by the State Fire Marshal.
a. A
				specialty plumbing, heating, and air conditioning electrician license (SP-PH)
				authorizes the licensee to install, maintain, or repair electric wiring or
				devices only as an incident to the licensee's plumbing, heating, and air
				conditioning business. Furthermore, the license authorizes the licensee to
				install, maintain, or repair only wiring that is directly related to plumbing,
				heating, and air conditioning equipment and that:
A. is restricted to circuits or parts of
				circuits that operate at voltages not exceeding 600 volts,
				phase-to-phase;
B. is electrically
				isolated from the building wiring system by an overcurrent protective isolating
				device, such as a fused switch or circuit breaker, that:
(a) has been installed, complete with
				line-side connections, by a master or journeyman electrician;
(b) is permanently and legibly marked to
				identify the equipment served by the device; and
(c) is located within an enclosure intended
				solely for, and limited to, serving the specific plumbing, heating, and air
				conditioning equipment involved, or is located within a panel-board that serves
				the building wiring system and is likewise permanently and legibly marked to
				identify the equipment served by the device, provided the wiring is installed
				by a master or journeyman electrician from the load-side terminals of the
				device to a junction box, auxiliary gutter, or similar disconnecting means
				located outside the panelboard, but in sight of and within 50 feet of, the
				plumbing, heating, or air conditioning equipment served;
C. originates at the load-side terminals of
				the protective isolating device;
D.
				except for control wiring, is physically adjacent to the plumbing, heating, and
				air conditioning equipment involved and is in sight of and not more than 50
				feet from the equipment. Control wiring that receives its control power from
				the plumbing, heating, and air conditioning equipment involved may extend
				beyond these limits if the control voltage does not exceed 120 volts to ground
				and the wiring is protected from overcurrent; and
E. is not installed in a location considered
				as hazardous under the National Electrical Code.