Oklahoma § 19-864.4 - Certificates of competency - Examinations

§ 19-864.4. Certificates of competency - Examinations

No person shall be issued a certificate of competency as a Class

A electrical contractor, Class B electrical contractor, appliance

repair shop, electrical sign contractor, motor shops, Class A

journeyman electrician, Class B journeyman electrician, journeyman

sign electrician, or electrical appliance repairman until he has

passed an examination by the joint electrical examining and appeals

board, except as herein provided. Said board shall meet within ten

(10) days after its appointment and shall then designate the time

and place for the first examination of all applicants desiring to

secure certificates.

Said board shall examine applicants for certificate of

competency as Class A electrical contractors or Class A journeyman

electricians, as to their practical knowledge of electrical wiring,

the installation of same, the installation of electrical appliance

or fixtures, and the operation and control of electrical systems.

Applicants for certificate of competency as Class A electrical

contractors shall further be required to present evidence of five

(5) years' actual electrical experience. Applicants for certificate

of competency as Class A journeyman electricians shall further be

required to present evidence of three (3) years' actual electrical

experience. A credit shall be allowed, however, of not to exceed

one (1) year for Class A and Class B electrical contractor

applicants, electrical sign contractor applicants, and Class A and

Class B journeyman electrician applicants for time spent as a

student in a program of electrical study or training at a school

approved by the board. Such board approval shall not be required,

however, with respect to publicly supported technology center

schools.

All other applicants for certificates of competency shall be

examined as to their practical knowledge of the installation,

maintenance and repair of the appliances, equipment, apparatus and

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systems permitted to be worked on under the certificate which they

seek. All examinations shall be written. If the applicant

demonstrates his competency in that phase of the trade for which a

certificate of competency is sought the board shall issue a

certificate of competency to such applicant authorizing him to

engage only in such electrical work described in said certificate

upon compliance with the conditions of any other section herein

relating thereto.

All certificates shall be signed by the chairman of said board

and attested by the secretary and shall show the date of passage of

the examination or, if issued without examination as herein

provided, the reason therefor, the name of the person and the class

of work authorized. Such certificate shall be issued only for the

year in which it is dated and shall expire on December 31 of the

year for which issued. Certificates shall be numbered consecutively

and the examining board and the electrical inspector shall keep a

record of all such certificates issued.

It shall be unlawful for any certificate of competency or

license holder to transfer his certificate or license or to allow it

to be used directly or indirectly by any other person.

Licensed contractors shall employ workmen licensed in the

category of the contractor's work classification.

Any certificate of competency or license heretofore issued by a

city of this state having a population of one hundred eighty

thousand (180,000), or more, according to the last Federal Decennial

Census, or by a joint examining and/or appeals board created under

any previous act, shall be recognized for the balance of the year of

its issue by the joint electrical examining and appeals board in the

county in which such city or joint board shall have been located.

Such certificates or licenses shall be subject to renewal without

further examination upon payment of the regularly established

renewal fee in the same manner as if such certificate or license had

been originally issued by the joint electrical examining and appeals

board to which it is presented for renewal.

In any county not heretofore covered by a statutory electrical

code, any person who has been engaged in the work as a Class A

journeyman electrician, Class B journeyman electrician, sign

electrician, electrical appliance repairman or the work and business

of a Class A electrical contractor, Class B electrical contractor,

electrical sign contractor, motor shop or appliance repair shop, as

such classifications are defined herein, within any county subject

to the provisions of this act, for a period of at least two (2)

years, immediately preceding July 5, 1965, shall, upon proof of such

work, be issued a certificate of competency by the joint electrical

examining and appeals board without examination and upon such

person's payment of all fees as provided herein, and provided

further that the application therefor is made within sixty (60) days

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after the creation of the joint electrical examining and appeals

board. The latter-named group shall be granted such certificates of

competency without regard as to whether they have ever been licensed

in any municipality or not.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 406, § 4, emerg. eff. July 5, 1965. Amended

by Laws 1971, c. 299, § 1, emerg. eff. June 24, 1971; Laws 2001, c.

33, § 18, eff. July 1, 2001.