HOUSE BILL No. 4045

 

January 22, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Crawford and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 217, entitled

 

"Electrical administrative act,"

 

by amending sections 3e and 3h (MCL 338.883e and 338.883h), section

 

3e as added by 1990 PA 246 and section 3h as added by 1992 PA 130.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3e. (1) An individual employed as an apprentice

 

electrician shall register with the board on a form provided by the

 

board within 30 days after employment.

 

     (2) The department of labor licensing and regulatory affairs

 

shall issue a certificate of registration to a person seeking

 

registration upon if it receives satisfactory proof of the person's

 

participation in a bona fide apprenticeship training program

 

approved by the board. This program shall be equivalent to the

 

requirements of those imposed by the United States department of

 


labor bureau of apprenticeship and training, subject to subsection

 

(3).

 

     (3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), the ratio

 

of electrical journeymen or master electricians to registered

 

apprentice electricians shall be on the basis of 1 electrical

 

journeyman or master electrician to 1 registered apprentice

 

electrician. The department of labor licensing and regulatory

 

affairs or an enforcing agency shall enforce the ratio on a jobsite

 

basis.

 

     (4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), in the case of a

 

residential single family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling not

 

exceeding 8 units per building, the department of labor licensing

 

and regulatory affairs or an enforcing agency shall enforce the

 

apprentice electrician ratio on the basis of 1 electrical

 

journeyman or master electrician to 2 registered apprentice

 

electricians on a jobsite basis.

 

     Sec. 3h. (1) An individual employed as a fire alarm specialty

 

apprentice technician shall register with the board on a form

 

provided by the board within 30 days after employment.

 

     (2) The department of labor licensing and regulatory affairs

 

shall issue a certificate of registration to a person seeking

 

registration upon if it receives satisfactory proof of the person's

 

participation in a bona fide apprenticeship training program

 

approved by the board. This program shall be equivalent to the

 

requirements of those imposed by the United States department of

 

labor bureau of apprenticeship and training, subject to subsection

 

(3).

 


     (3) The ratio of fire alarm specialty technicians to

 

registered fire alarm specialty apprentice technicians shall be on

 

the basis of 1 fire alarm specialty technician to 2 registered fire

 

alarm specialty apprentice technicians. The department of labor

 

licensing and regulatory affairs or an enforcing agency shall

 

enforce the ratio on a jobsite basis.