SENATE, No. 1013 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
212th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED JANUARY 17, 2006
STATEMENT
This bill provides that anyone working on a job or holding himself out as a qualified journeyman electrician must be registered as such with the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors and be in possession of a registration card. The Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors sets standards and education requirements for journeyman electricians. The current law exempts journeyman electricians from business permit requirements when performing electrical work in large corporate buildings, places of employment and buildings open to the public without supervision of a licensee. The bill further provides that the business permit exemption applies to the facilities of any public utility organized for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating works for the generation, supplying, transmission or distribution of electricity for electric light, heat, or power, or any electric power generator or on-site generation facility. In addition, the bill establishes a business permit exemption for electrical work performed by a public utility technician. As defined in the bill, "public utility technician" means (1) an employee of a public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13 engaged in the installation, replacement or repair of appliances, gas-fired equipment, boilers, furnaces, thermostats, water heaters, air conditioning equipment rated 60,000 BTU/hr. cooling capacity or less, and associated wiring up to and including the disconnect; or (2) an employee of a public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13 engaged in the installation, replacement or repair of underground or overhead lighting fixtures and systems; or (3) an employee or agent of a public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13, including an individual contracted by the utility, performing emergency safety related repair activities necessitated by or caused by an act of God or which is the result of equipment failure however occurring.
