§ 6.20.020. Registrations and licenses—Classifications defined.

In this chapter:

A.

"Electrical contractor" means any person registered to engage in the business of installing, erecting, altering, repairing or contracting to install, erect, alter or repair electric wires, conductors, material, machinery, apparatus or systems used for the transmission of electrical energy for light, heat, power, control or signal purposes.

B.

"Master electrician" means any person licensed to obtain electrical permits and supervise the installation of electrical work.

C.

"Equipment contractor" means any person registered to engage in the business of electrical wiring of equipment, including but not limited to HVAC systems, swimming pools and associated equipment, electric signs, gasoline dispensing units, and other similar equipment and devices.

D.

"Electrical equipment installer" means any person licensed to install and engage in the electrical wiring of equipment, including but not limited to HVAC systems, swimming pools and associated equipment, electric signs, gasoline dispensing units, and other similar equipment and devices.

E.

"Low-voltage contractor" means any person registered to engage in the business of installing, erecting, altering, repairing or contracting to install, erect, alter or repair electric wires, conductors, material, machinery, apparatus or systems operating at fifty volts or less, used for Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 remote control, signaling and power-limited circuits, fire-protective signaling systems, communications circuits and coaxial cable distribution of radio frequency signals.

F.

"Low-voltage wiring installer" means any person licensed to obtain electrical permits and supervise the installation of Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 remote control, signaling and power-limited circuits, fire-protective signaling systems, communications circuits and coaxial cable distributing of radio frequency signals.

G.

"Maintenance electrician" means any person engaged in the maintenance, repair or modification of existing electrical installations.

H.

"Metropolitan journeyman electrician" means an individual who has successfully completed the journeyman electrician's examination and holds a current and valid journeyman electrician's license duly issued by the metropolitan board of electrical examiners and appeals; one who has successfully completed an electrical construction apprenticeship; or one who is regularly employed as a journeyman and works under the direction and supervision of an electrical contractor or master electrician.

I.

"Metropolitan apprentice electrician" means an individual who is enrolled in an apprenticeship program registered with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training in accordance with the requirements of 29 C.F.R. § 29, or any nationally accredited apprenticeship program, and consists of, at a minimum, eight thousand hours of documented practical experience combined with a minimum of six hundred hours of classroom and/or shop instruction in the electrical trade; works under the direction and supervision of a master electrician or a journeyman electrician and a master electrician or a journeyman electrician must be present on same jobsite.

J.

"Metropolitan beginning electrician" means an individual who (1) has no prior electrical experience and is not enrolled in an apprenticeship program; (2) must enroll in an approved apprenticeship program after working a period of one year as a beginning electrician; (3) works under the direction and supervision of a master electrician or a journeyman electrician and a master electrician or a journeyman electrician must be present on same jobsite and at any time for any electrical wiring project; (4) the total number of registered beginning electricians at an installation site may not exceed a ratio of five registered beginning electricians and apprentices to one licensed master electrician or one journeyman electrician at any jobsite.

(Ord. BL2013-570 § 1, 2013)