103.2 - ELECTRICAL EXAMINING BOARD CREATED.

        103.2  ELECTRICAL EXAMINING BOARD CREATED.
         1.  An electrical examining board is created within the division
      of state fire marshal of the department of public safety.  The board
      shall consist of eleven voting members appointed by the governor and
      subject to senate confirmation, all of whom shall be residents of
      this state.
         2.  The members shall be as follows:
         a.  Two members shall be journeyman electricians, one a member
      of an electrical workers union covered under a collective bargaining
      agreement and one not a member of a union.
         b.  Two members shall be master electricians or electrical
      contractors, one of whom is a contractor signed to a collective
      bargaining agreement or a master electrician covered under a
      collective bargaining agreement and one of whom is a contractor not
      signed to a collective bargaining agreement or a master electrician
      who is not a member of a union.
         c.  One member shall be an electrical inspector.
         d.  Two members, one a union member covered under a collective
      bargaining agreement and one who is not a member of a union, each of
      whom shall not be a member of any of the groups described in
      paragraphs "a" through "c", and shall represent the general
      public.
         e.  One member shall be the state fire marshal or a
      representative of the state fire marshal's office.
         f.  One member shall be a local building official employed by
      a political subdivision to perform electrical inspections for that
      political subdivision.
         g.  One member shall represent a public utility.
         h.  One member shall be an engineer licensed pursuant to
      chapter 542B with a background in electrical engineering.
         3.  The public members of the board shall be allowed to
      participate in administrative, clerical, or ministerial functions
      incident to giving a licensure examination, but shall not determine
      the content of the examination or determine the correctness of the
      answers.  Professional associations or societies composed of licensed
      electricians may recommend to the governor the names of potential
      board members whose profession is representative of that association
      or society.  However, the governor is not bound by the
      recommendations.  A board member shall not be required to be a member
      of any professional electrician association or society.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2007 Acts, ch 197, §12, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1092, §11, 32
         Referred to in § 100C.10, 103.1
         Confirmation, see §2.32 
         Footnotes
         Recommendation to general assembly regarding implementation of
      statewide inspection program due by January 1, 2011; 2009 Acts, ch
      151, §33