Hello everyone.
This is my first post so please be gentle. I live in Oregon and work in a manufacturing plant as a maintenance electrician. I have an Oregon plant journeyman electrical license and a Utah journeyman electricial license. The company I work for has plants in several other states, one of which is Ohio. They claim at the plant in Ohio that they don't need an electrical license of any type to perform work on the systems in their plant. This sounds fishy to me but I can't find anything online that says differently. Does anyone have any information about the requirements in Ohio to perform manufacturing plant electrical maintenance?
Probably true.
From:
http://publicecodes.citation.com/st...b2v07_1_sec002_par011.htm?bu=OH-P-2005-000004
102.10 Work exempt from approval. Approval shall not be required for the following:
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1. Minor repair work, including the replacement of lamps or the connection of approved portable electrical equipment to approved permanently installed receptacles.
2. Electrical equipment used for radio and television transmissions, except equipment and wiring for power supply, and the installation of towers and antennas.
3. The installation of any temporary system required for the testing or servicing of electrical equipment or apparatus.
4. Electrical wiring, devices, appliances, apparatus or equipment operating at less than 25 volts and not capable of supplying more than 50 watts of energy, unless specifically addressed in this code.
5. Process equipment and the associated wiring on the load side of the power disconnect to the equipment.
I do not think that 4740 ORC
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4740 applys.
4740.01 Construction industry licensing board definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(A) ?License? means a license the Ohio construction industry licensing board issues to an individual as a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, refrigeration contractor, electrical contractor, plumbing contractor, or hydronics contractor.
(B) ?Contractor? means any individual or business entity that satisfies both of the following:
(1) Directs, supervises, or has responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance on a construction project with respect to one or more trades and who offers, identifies, advertises, or otherwise holds out or represents that the individual or business entity is permitted or qualified to perform, direct, supervise, or have responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance with respect to one or more trades on a construction project;
(2) Performs or otherwise supervises or directs tradespersons who perform construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance on a construction project with respect to the contractor?s trades.
(C) ?Licensed trade? means a trade performed by a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, a refrigeration contractor, an electrical contractor, a plumbing contractor, or a hydronics contractor.
(D) ?Tradesperson? means any individual who is supervised or directed by a contractor or who is otherwise employed by a contractor and who engages in construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance of buildings or structures without assuming responsibility for the means, method, or manner of that construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance.
(E) ?Construction project? means a construction project involving a building or structure subject to Chapter 3781. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under that chapter, but not an industrialized unit or a residential building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.
Effective Date: 09-18-2001; 09-16-2004; 05-27-2005; 03-30-2007; 2008 HB444 04-07-2009
