103.22 - CHAPTER INAPPLICABILITY.
103.22 CHAPTER INAPPLICABILITY.
The provisions of this chapter shall not:
1. Apply to a person licensed as an engineer pursuant to chapter
542B, registered as an architect pursuant to chapter 544A, licensed
as a landscape architect pursuant to chapter 544B, licensed as a
manufactured or mobile home retailer or certified as a manufactured
or mobile home installer pursuant to chapter 103A, or designated as
lighting certified by the national council on qualifications for the
lighting professions who is providing consultations and developing
plans concerning electrical installations and who is exclusively
engaged in the practice of the person's profession.
2. Require employees of municipal utilities, electric membership
or cooperative associations, investor-owned utilities, rural water
associations or districts, railroads, telecommunications companies,
franchised cable television operators, farms, or commercial or
industrial companies performing manufacturing, installation, and
repair work for such employer to hold licenses while acting within
the scope of their employment. An employee of a farm does not
include a person who is employed for the primary purpose of
installing a new electrical installation.
3. Require firms or individuals working under contract to
municipal utilities, electric membership or cooperative associations,
or investor-owned utilities to hold licenses while performing work
for utilities which is within the scope of the public service
obligations of a utility.
4. Require any person doing work for which a license would
otherwise be required under this chapter to hold a license issued
under this chapter if the person is the holder of a valid license
issued by any political subdivision, so long as the person makes
electrical installations only within the jurisdictional limits of
such political subdivision and such license issued by the political
subdivision is based upon requirements that are substantially
equivalent to the licensing requirements of this chapter.
5. Apply to the installation, maintenance, repair, or alteration
of vertical transportation or passenger conveyors, elevators, moving
walks, dumbwaiters, stagelifts, manlifts, or appurtenances thereto
beyond the terminals of the controllers. The licensing of elevator
contractors or constructors shall not be considered a part of the
licensing requirements of this chapter.
6. Require a license of any person who engages any electrical
appliance where approved electrical supply is already installed.
7. Prohibit an owner of property from performing work on the
owner's principal residence, if such residence is an existing
dwelling rather than new construction and is not an apartment that is
attached to any other apartment or building, as those terms are
defined in section 499B.2, and is not larger than a single-family
dwelling, or farm property, excluding commercial or industrial
installations or installations in public use buildings or facilities,
or require such owner to be licensed under this chapter. In order to
qualify for inapplicability pursuant to this subsection, a residence
shall qualify for the homestead tax exemption.
8. Require that any person be a member of a labor union in order
to be licensed.
9. Apply to a person who is qualified pursuant to administrative
rules relating to the storage and handling of liquefied petroleum
gases while engaged in installing, servicing, testing, replacing, or
maintaining propane gas utilization equipment, or gas piping systems
of which the equipment is a part, and related or connected accessory
systems or equipment necessary to the operation of the equipment.
10. Apply to a person who meets the requirements for a well
contractor pursuant to administrative rules while engaged in
installing, servicing, testing, replacing, or maintaining a well or
well equipment, or piping systems of which the equipment is a part,
and related or connected accessory systems or equipment necessary to
the operation of the equipment.
11. Apply to a person performing alarm system installations
pursuant to section 103.14 or to a person who is engaged in the
design, installation, erection, repair, maintenance, or alteration of
class two or class three remote control, signaling, or power-limited
circuits, optical fiber cables or other cabling, or communications
circuits, including raceways, as defined in the national electrical
code for voice, video, audio, and data signals in commercial or
residential premises.
12. Require any person, including an employee of the state or any
political subdivision of the state, performing routine maintenance to
be licensed under this chapter.
13. Apply to a person otherwise licensed pursuant to this chapter
who is engaged in the wiring or installation of electrical wiring,
apparatus, or equipment while presenting a course of instruction
relating to home construction technology, or a similar course of
instruction, offered to students by a community college established
under chapter 260C, an institution under the control of the state
board of regents, or a school corporation. A student enrolled in
such a course of instruction shall not be considered an apprentice
electrician or unclassified person, and supervision ratios as
provided in section 103.15, subsection 3, shall not be applicable.
The board shall by rule establish inspection procedures in the event
that the home constructed pursuant to the course is intended for
eventual occupation as a residence.
14. Prohibit a person from performing work on an emergency basis
as determined by the board. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 197, §32, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1031, §35; 2008 Acts, ch
1032, §22; 2008 Acts, ch 1076, §2, 4; 2008 Acts, ch 1092, §23, 24,
32; 2008 Acts, ch 1191, §46; 2009 Acts, ch 39, §7; 2009 Acts, ch 179,
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