brother
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Its seems this is gonna keep popping back up in my area. Apparently since the 'slow' economy has hurt alot of contractors, its starting to get a little nasty.
In my area, a person can get an Electrical Adminstrators card and an Electrical journeymans card (2 seperate cards). The issue is that to get the journeyman's card you have to have worked directly under a licensed journeyman for 8000 'documented' hours, basically 4 years or longer doing electrical installations.
Every contractor is required to have an Electrical Admistrator to be in business, but there is NO prerequisite to get an Admin card, basically just walk in off the street and pass the test (if you study enough). So you can have an 'apprentice' who has an admin card.
The Electrical Administrator's job is to ensure that the Electrical Contractor's work complies with all the appropriate electrical laws and rules. Basically overseeing journeyman to ensure the work is code compliant. So you can have a '1st year apprentice' with an admin card, who is to 'oversee' the journeyman's work to ensure it is code compliant. LOL. This is from the website.
Note: Electrical Administrator certification does not enable the holder to do electrical installations
They want to change that and make it required for an Adminstrator to become a journeyman before they can get that card. The debate has increased here lately. If it was a 'Master Electrician' card this would not be an issue, one already has to have the hours to get that Master card.
Whats your opinion, and how does your area do the licensing??
In my area, a person can get an Electrical Adminstrators card and an Electrical journeymans card (2 seperate cards). The issue is that to get the journeyman's card you have to have worked directly under a licensed journeyman for 8000 'documented' hours, basically 4 years or longer doing electrical installations.
Every contractor is required to have an Electrical Admistrator to be in business, but there is NO prerequisite to get an Admin card, basically just walk in off the street and pass the test (if you study enough). So you can have an 'apprentice' who has an admin card.
The Electrical Administrator's job is to ensure that the Electrical Contractor's work complies with all the appropriate electrical laws and rules. Basically overseeing journeyman to ensure the work is code compliant. So you can have a '1st year apprentice' with an admin card, who is to 'oversee' the journeyman's work to ensure it is code compliant. LOL. This is from the website.
Note: Electrical Administrator certification does not enable the holder to do electrical installations
They want to change that and make it required for an Adminstrator to become a journeyman before they can get that card. The debate has increased here lately. If it was a 'Master Electrician' card this would not be an issue, one already has to have the hours to get that Master card.
Whats your opinion, and how does your area do the licensing??
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