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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4473

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senator Warnke

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 1/9/86.  Read first time 1/13/86 and referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to the board of electrical examiners; and amending RCW 19.28.123.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 2, chapter 188, Laws of 1974 ex. sess. as last amended by section 57, chapter 287, Laws of 1984 and RCW 19.28.123 are each amended to read as follows:

          There is hereby created a board of electrical examiners consisting of nine members to be appointed by the governor with the advice of the director of labor and industries.  Four members of the board shall be employees or officers of a corporation or firm engaged in the business of making electrical installations, four members shall be recognized electricians who represent at least two hundred recognized electricians engaged in the business of making electrical installations as employees of corporations or firms, and one member shall be the chief state electrical inspector.  In making the appointments, the governor shall consider the individuals nominated by nonprofit organizations or associations representing individuals, corporations, or firms engaged in the business of making electrical installations.  Each appointee shall serve for a term of three years.

          It shall be the purpose and function of this board to establish in addition to a general electrical contractors' license, such classifications of specialty electrical contractors' licenses as it deems appropriate with regard to individual sections pertaining to state adopted codes in chapter 19.28 RCW.  In addition, it shall be the purpose and function of this board to establish and administer written examinations for general electrical contractors' qualifying certificates and the various specialty electrical contractors' qualifying certificates.  Examinations shall be designed to reasonably insure that general and specialty electrical contractor's qualifying certificate holders are competent to engage in and supervise the work covered by this statute and their respective licenses.  The examinations shall include questions from the following categories to assure proper safety and protection for the general public:  (1) Safety, (2) state electrical code, and (3) electrical theory.  It shall be the further purpose and function of this board to advise the director as to the need of additional electrical inspectors and compliance officers to be utilized by the director on either a full-time or part-time employment basis.

          Meetings of the board shall be held quarterly on the first Monday of February, May, August, and November of each year.  Each member of the board shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.240, and each member shall also receive travel expenses as provided in RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060, which shall be paid out of the electrical license fund, upon vouchers approved by the director of labor and industries.