KRS 227A.060: Qualifications for licensure -- Provisional license.

(1) The department shall issue a license as an "electrical contractor" to an applicant

who meets the following requirements:

(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed two hundred

dollars ($200) and the appropriate examination fee, which shall not exceed the

actual cost of examination;

(b) Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the

examination required by the department. The department shall promulgate

administrative regulations to specify who shall take the examination if the

applicant is a business entity; and

(c) Has submitted proof that he or she has complied with workers' compensation

and unemployment insurance laws and administrative regulations and has

obtained a general liability insurance policy of not less than one million

dollars ($1,000,000).

(2) The department shall issue a license as a "master electrician" to an applicant who

meets the following requirements:

(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed one hundred

dollars ($100) and the appropriate examination fee not to exceed the actual

cost of the examination;

(b) Has completed sixteen thousand (16,000) hours of verifiable experience in the

electrical trade since his or her sixteenth birthday, except as follows:

1. Completion of any of the following shall substitute for four thousand

(4,000) hours of verifiable experience in the electrical trade:

a. A training course in electrical work, acceptable to the department;

or

b. Two (2) years of teaching electrical technology or a related field at

an accredited college or university; and

2. Completion of an associate's degree or diploma program in electrical

technology or a related field at a college within the Kentucky

Community and Technical College System or at an accredited college or

university shall substitute for six thousand (6,000) hours of verifiable

experience in the electrical trade; and

(c) Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the

examination required by the department.

(3) The department shall issue a license as an "electrician" to an applicant who meets

the following requirements:

(a) Has paid to the department the application fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50)

and the appropriate examination fee not to exceed the actual cost of the

examination administered by the department;

(b) Has completed eight thousand (8,000) hours of verifiable experience in the

electrical trade since his or her sixteenth birthday. Completion of any one (1)

of the following shall substitute for four thousand (4,000) hours of verifiable

experience in the electrical trade:

1. A training course in electrical work, acceptable to the department;

2. Two (2) years of a minimum four (4) year training course in electrical

work, acceptable to the department, with completion of the remaining

years of that training course within four (4) years of obtaining the

electrician license, or the electrician license shall be revoked;

3. An associate's degree or diploma program in electrical technology or a

related field at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical

College System or at an accredited college or university; or

4. Two (2) years of teaching electrical technology or a related field at an

accredited college or university; and

(c) Has achieved a passing score, as set by the department, on all portions of the

examination required and administered by the department.

(4) (a) All or part o f the experience requirements for licensing under subsection (2)

or (3) of this section may be met through applicable supervised military

occupational specialty experience while serving in the United States Armed

Forces, including but not limited to electr ical engineering, electrical power

production, electrical repair or maintenance, utilities, electronic systems repair

or maintenance, or aircraft electrician experience.

(b) The department shall promulgate administrative regulations pursuant to KRS

Chapter 13A that establish an application form for the use of military

experience to apply toward licensure experience under subsection (2) or (3) of

this section. As part of the application process, the applicant shall be required

to provide:

1. A copy of the ap plicant's DD-214 form showing the applicant's military

occupational specialty; or

2. A signed statement by the applicant's commanding officer, on a form

provided by the department, attesting to the fact that the applicant meets

the experience requirements of this section.

(5) (a) The department shall issue a nonrenewable provisional license as an

"electrician" to an applicant who has completed at least six (6) years of

verifiable experience and has worked two thousand eighty (2,080) hours a

year for those s ix (6) years in the electrical trade since the applicant's

sixteenth birthday.

(b) A nonrenewable provisional license issued to an applicant under paragraph (a)

of this subsection shall be valid for a period not to exceed one (1) year from

the date of issuance.

(c) The department shall issue a license as an electrician to a provisional license

holder who has, prior to the expiration of the one (1) year term of the

provisional license:

1. Achieved a passing score on all portions of the examination required

and administered by the department under subsection (3)(c) of this

section;

2. Paid to the department the application fee not to exceed fifty dollars

($50) per year; and

3. Paid to the department the examination fee not to exceed the actual cost

of the examination.

(d) If a provisional license holder does not achieve a passing score on all portions

of the examination required and administered under subsection (3)(c) of this

section prior to the expiration of the one (1) year term of the provisional

license, the provisional license shall expire and the provisional license holder

shall be ineligible for any additional provisional licenses. Nothing in this

paragraph shall prevent a former provisional license holder from acquiring an

electrician's license under subsection (3) of this section.