(a) Any person who desires to install, repair, maintain or erect electrical equipment as a master electrician limited, as defined in this chapter, may at any time make application to the director to be examined and the director shall provide the applicant with the prescribed forms.
(b) An applicant may be licensed hereunder for a particular type of electrical installation or may be licensed for all types or as many types of limited electrical installations as defined herein and for which he shall be found qualified by the board. He shall have been regularly and principally employed for four (4) years preceding application in the area of limitation, under the direction of a master electrician, or master electrician limited, where the limitation is in the same area as requested. The type of limited licenses shall be set forth in regulations adopted under method (3) of section 2A-15 of this Code by the county executive upon recommendation of the board. Particular license classifications shall include, without limiting, licenses for electrical connections and circuits to air conditioning, elevators, gasoline pumps, automatic heating furnaces whose principal operation is derived from fuel oil, gas, steam, solar panels, or coal, lighting, illuminated signs, and similar specialties, and electrical repair and maintenance work, in plants, factories, apartment complexes and any public occupancy employing maintenance forces, fire alarm systems and electronic equipment, or major appliances, all employing the use of electrical current or connections. The conditions of the license shall appear plainly on the license.
(c) Those persons who are employed by a plant, factory, apartment, condominium, office building or other facility employing maintenance personnel are encouraged to obtain a master electrician’s limited license for maintenance in order to be able to obtain permits for electrical maintenance work. In addition to the requirements in section 17-22(a) and (b), the owner or agent for the building or buildings must certify that the applicant is a full-time employee and is covered by liability insurance in the amount established by section 17-19(c). (1974 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 1; 1982 L.M.C., ch. 55, § 1; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 19.)
