103.15 - APPRENTICE ELECTRICIAN -- UNCLASSIFIED PERSON.
103.15 APPRENTICE ELECTRICIAN -- UNCLASSIFIED
PERSON.
1. A person shall be licensed by the board and pay a licensing
fee to work as an apprentice electrician while participating in an
apprenticeship training program registered by the bureau of
apprenticeship and training of the United States department of labor
in accordance with the standards established by that department. An
apprenticeship shall be limited to six years from the date of
licensure, unless extended by the board upon a finding that a
hardship existed which prevented completion of the apprenticeship
program. Such licensure shall entitle the licensee to act as an
apprentice to an electrical contractor, a class A master electrician,
a class B master electrician, a class A journeyman electrician, or a
class B journeyman electrician as provided in subsection 3.
2. a. A person shall be licensed as an unclassified person by
the board to perform electrical work if the work is performed under
the personal supervision of a person actually licensed to perform
such work and the licensed and unclassified persons are employed by
the same employer. A person shall not be employed continuously for
more than one hundred days as an unclassified person without having
obtained a current license from the board. For the purposes of
determining whether a person has been "employed continuously" for
more than one hundred days under this subsection, employment shall
include any days not worked due to illness, holidays, weekend days,
and other absences that do not constitute separation from or
termination of employment. Any period of employment as a nonlicensed
unclassified person shall not be credited to any applicable
experiential requirement of an apprenticeship training program
registered by the bureau of apprenticeship and training of the United
States department of labor.
b. Licensed persons shall not permit unclassified persons to
perform electrical work except under the personal supervision of a
person actually licensed to perform such work. Unclassified persons
shall not supervise the performance of electrical work or make
assignments of electrical work to unclassified persons. Any person
employing unclassified persons performing electrical work shall
maintain records establishing compliance with this section, which
shall designate all unclassified persons performing electrical work.
3. Apprentice electricians and unclassified persons shall do no
electrical wiring except under the direct personal on-the-job
supervision and control and in the immediate presence of a licensee
as specified in section 103.11. Such supervision shall include both
on-the-job training and related classroom training as approved by the
board. The licensee may employ or supervise apprentice electricians
and unclassified persons at a ratio not to exceed three apprentice
electricians and unclassified persons to one licensee, except that
such ratio and the other requirements of this section shall not apply
to apprenticeship classroom training.
4. For purposes of this section, "the direct personal
on-the-job supervision and control and in the immediate presence of a
licensee" shall mean the licensee and the apprentice electrician or
unclassified person shall be working at the same project location but
shall not require that the licensee and apprentice electrician or
unclassified person be within sight of one another at all times.
5. An apprentice electrician shall not install, alter, or repair
electrical equipment except as provided in this section, and the
licensee employing or supervising an apprentice electrician shall not
authorize or permit such actions by the apprentice electrician.
6. The board may reject an application for licensure under this
section from an applicant who would be subject to suspension,
revocation, or reprimand pursuant to section 103.35. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 197, §25, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1092, §20, 32; 2009
Acts, ch 133, §27
Referred to in § 103.22, 103.29