Senate Bill No. 462
(By Senator Dalton)
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[Introduced February 21, 1994; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend article three-b, chapter twenty-nine of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
six-a, relating to the supervision and licensure of
electricians; and allowing persons qualified for licensure
as a journeyman electrician or master electrician to apply
for a license without written examination during a one-time
ninety-day period.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article three-b, chapter twenty-nine of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
six-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3B. SUPERVISION OF ELECTRICIANS.
§29-3B-6a. License without examination; additional application
period.
Any person who met the criteria for obtaining a license as
a journeyman electrician or a master electrician without
examination as of the eighth day of April, one thousand ninehundred eighty-nine, but who did not complete the application
process within ninety days of that date, may reapply for a
license without examination during the period beginning on the
first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, and
ending on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-four. Applicants seeking a license as a
journeyman electrician or a master electrician under the
provisions of this section shall meet all other criteria required
for licensure in these classifications as set forth in section
four of this article and shall be subject to all other standards,
rules and fees authorized by this article.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit a journeyman
electrician or a master electrician to apply for a license
without examination for 90 days from July 1, 1994, if he or she
qualified for such a classification on April 8, 1989, but did not
complete the application process within the time allowed by
statute for such persons who met all other licensure criteria to
be initially grandfathered in without examination.
§29-3B-6a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.