TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 10

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS AND JOURNEYMEN

54-1003A.  Definitions. (1) Electrical Contractor. Except as provided in section 54-1016, Idaho Code, any person, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation engaging in, conducting, or carrying on the business of installing wires or equipment to carry electric current or installing apparatus to be operated by such current, or entering into agreements to install such wires, equipment or apparatus, shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as an electrical contractor. An electrical contractor, prior to being issued a license, shall be required to provide proof of liability insurance in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) and proof of worker’s compensation insurance if applicable.

(2)  Journeyman Electrician. Except as provided in section 54-1016, Idaho Code, and subsections (4), (5), (6), and (7) of this section, any person who personally performs or supervises the actual physical work of installing electrical wiring or equipment to convey electric current, or apparatus to be operated by such current, or engages in planning, lay out, or design of such wiring, equipment, or apparatus, or the supervision thereof, shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as a journeyman electrician.

(3)  Residential Electrician. Any person who personally performs or supervises the actual physical work of installing electrical wiring or equipment to convey electric current, or apparatus to be operated by such current in a residential setting, shall for the purposes of this chapter be known as a residential electrician. A residential electrician may work in a non-residential setting only as a registered apprentice electrician under the constant on-the-job supervision of a journeyman electrician.

(4)  Apprentice Electrician. Any person who, for the purpose of learning the trade of residential electrician or journeyman electrician, engages in the installation of electrical wiring, equipment, or apparatus while under the constant on-the-job supervision of a qualified residential electrician, journeyman electrician, or master electrician shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as an apprentice electrician.

(5)  Maintenance Electrician. Any person who is regularly employed to service, maintain or repair electrical apparatus, or to make minor repairs or alterations to existing electrical wires or equipment located on his employer’s premises shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as a maintenance electrician.

(6)  Master Electrician. A person who has the necessary qualifications, training, experience and technical knowledge to plan, lay out or design the installation of electrical wiring or equipment, or to supervise such planning, layout, or design, and who performs or supervises such planning, layout or design, shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as a master electrician.

(7)  Limited Electrical Installer. A person having the necessary qualifications, training, experience and technical knowledge to install, alter, repair and supervise the installation, alteration or repair of special classes of electrical wiring, apparatus or equipment within categories adopted by the board. Limited electrical installers shall perform work only within the scope of the restricted category for which the person is licensed.

(8)  Limited Electrical Contractor. Except as provided in section 54-1016, Idaho Code, any person, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation engaging in, conducting or carrying on the business of installing, altering or repairing restricted categories of electrical wiring, apparatus or equipment within categories adopted by the board, or entering into agreements to perform such restricted work, shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as a limited electrical contractor. Limited electrical contractors shall perform work only within the scope of the restricted category for which the contractor is licensed. A limited electrical contractor, prior to being issued a license, shall be required to provide proof of liability insurance in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) and proof of worker’s compensation insurance if applicable.

(9)  Limited Electrical Installer Trainee. Any person who engages in the installation of restricted categories of electrical wiring, equipment or apparatus under the constant on-the-job supervision of a qualified limited electrical installer shall for the purpose of this chapter be known as a limited electrical installer trainee.

(10) Electrical Facility Employer Account or Facility Account. An employer licensed with the division of occupational and professional licenses who employs individuals holding valid journeyman or master electrician licenses to perform alterations, extensions and new installations of electrical systems or components thereof on premises owned by the employer. The employer may also employ maintenance electricians in accordance with section 54-1016, Idaho Code.

(11) Provisional Journeyman Electrician. Any person who has met the requirements of section 54-1007(4), Idaho Code, and who wishes to perform the actual physical work of installing electrical wiring or equipment to convey electric current, or apparatus to be operated by such current, while under the constant on-the-job supervision of a qualified residential electrician, journeyman electrician, or master electrician may upon application, for the purposes of this chapter, be known as a provisional journeyman electrician.

(12) Residential Setting. For the purposes of this chapter, residential setting means one (1) and two (2) family dwellings, townhouses, and multi-family structures up to three (3) stories.

History:

[54-1003A, added 1961, ch. 311, sec. 6, p. 583; am. 1986, ch. 296, sec. 3, p. 743; am. 1999, ch. 99, sec. 3, p. 312; am. 1999, ch. 367, sec. 3, p. 970; am. 2005, ch. 82, sec. 1, p. 294; am. 2018, ch. 208, sec. 5, p. 462; am. 2018, ch. 209, sec. 3, p. 469; am. 2019, ch. 292, sec. 3, p. 866; am. 2023, ch. 15, sec. 37, p. 94; am. 2023, ch. 244, sec. 6, p. 747.]