103.1 - DEFINITIONS.
103.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Apprentice electrician" means any person who, as such
person's principal occupation, is engaged in learning and assisting
in the installation, alteration, and repair of electrical wiring,
apparatus, and equipment as an employee of a person licensed under
this chapter, and who is licensed by the board and is progressing
toward completion of an apprenticeship training program registered by
the bureau of apprenticeship and training of the United States
department of labor. For purposes of this chapter, persons who are
not engaged in the installation, alteration, or repair of electrical
wiring, apparatus, and equipment, either inside or outside buildings,
shall not be considered apprentice electricians.
2. "Board" means the electrical examining board created under
section 103.2.
3. "Class A journeyman electrician" means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to wire for or install electrical wiring, apparatus, and
equipment and to supervise apprentice electricians and who is
licensed by the board.
4. "Class A master electrician" means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and supervise the installation
of electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment for light, heat,
power, and other purposes and who is licensed by the board.
5. "Class B journeyman electrician" means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to wire for or install electrical wiring, apparatus, and
equipment who meets and is subject to the restrictions of section
103.12.
6. "Class B master electrician" means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and supervise the installation
of electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment who meets and is
subject to the restrictions of section 103.10.
7. "Electrical contractor" means a person affiliated with an
electrical contracting firm or business who is, or who employs a
person who is, licensed by the board as either a class A or class B
master electrician and who is also registered with the state of Iowa
as a contractor pursuant to chapter 91C.
8. "Farm" means land, buildings and structures used for
agricultural purposes including but not limited to the storage,
handling, and drying of grain and the care, feeding, and housing of
livestock.
9. "Industrial installation" means an installation intended
for use in the manufacture or processing of products involving
systematic labor or habitual employment and includes installations in
which agricultural or other products are habitually or customarily
processed or stored for others, either by buying or reselling on a
fee basis.
10. "Inspector" means a person certified as an electrical
inspector upon such reasonable conditions as may be adopted by the
board. The board may permit more than one class of electrical
inspector.
11. "New electrical installation" means the installation of
electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment for light, heat, power,
and other purposes.
12. "Public use building or facility" means any building or
facility designated for public use, including all property owned and
occupied or designated for use by the state of Iowa.
13. "Residential electrician" means a person having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to perform a residential installation.
14. "Residential installation" means the wiring for or
installation of electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment in a
residence consisting of no more than four living units within the
same building.
15. "Residential master electrician" means a person having
the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and supervise the performance of
a residential installation.
16. "Routine maintenance" means the repair or replacement of
existing electrical apparatus or equipment, including but not limited
to wires, cables, switches, receptacles, outlets, fuses, circuit
breakers, and fixtures, of the same size and type for which no
changes in wiring are made, but does not include any new electrical
installation or the expansion or extension of any circuit.
17. "Special electrician" means a person having the necessary
qualifications, training, and experience in wiring or installing
special classes of electrical wiring, apparatus, equipment, or
installations which shall include irrigation system wiring,
disconnecting and reconnecting of existing air conditioning and
refrigeration, and sign installation and who is licensed by the
board.
18. "Unclassified person" means any person, other than an
apprentice electrician or other person licensed under this chapter,
who, as such person's principal occupation, is engaged in learning
and assisting in the installation, alteration, and repair of
electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment as an employee of a
person licensed under this chapter, and who is licensed by the board
as an unclassified person. For purposes of this chapter, persons who
are not engaged in the installation, alteration, or repair of
electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment, either inside or outside
buildings, shall not be considered unclassified persons. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 197, §11, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §19; 2008 Acts, ch
1092, §7--10, 32; 2009 Acts, ch 39, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §114