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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5725

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Energy & Utilities (originally sponsored by Senators Gaspard, Matson, Sutherland, Johnson, Moore, Murray and McCaslin).

 

Read first time March 6, 1991.Exempting electrical utilities and contractors from licensing requirements for certain work involving electrical transmission lines.


     AN ACT Relating to electrical licensing exemptions; and amending RCW 19.28.200.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 19.28.200 and 1980 c 30 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

     No electrical license under the provision of this chapter shall be required from any electrical utility or contractor principally engaged in the erection and maintenance of primary power lines because of work in connection with the installation and/or maintenance of primary power lines ((or wires for transmission of electricity from the source of supply to the point of contact at the premises and/or property to be supplied, or)).  Nor shall a license from an electrical utility be required for work in installing or maintaining or repairing on the premises of customers, service connections and meters, and other apparatus or appliances used in the measurement of the consumption of electricity by customers, or for work in connection with the lighting of streets, alleys, ways, or public areas or squares, or for the work of installing, maintaining or repairing wires, apparatus or appliances used in ((their)) its business, or in making or distributing electricity, upon the property owned or operated and managed by ((them;)) it, or for the work of installing and repairing ignition or lighting systems for motor vehicles, or as exempted in RCW 19.28.010.  Exemptions granted in this section shall apply to employees when engaged in the performance of duties for an electrical utility or contractor, principally engaged in the erection and maintenance of primary power lines, for which no license is required.