Section 108.4 Of Chapter 4.5. Electrician Certification From California Labor Code >> Division 1. >> Chapter 4.5.
108.4
. (a) An uncertified person may perform electrical work for
which certification is required under Section 108 in order to acquire
the necessary on-the-job experience for certification, if all of the
following requirements are met:
(1) The person is registered with the Labor Commissioner. A list
of current registrants shall be maintained by the division and made
available to the public upon request.
(2) The person either has completed or is enrolled in an approved
curriculum of classroom instruction.
(3) The employer attests that the person shall be under the direct
supervision of an electrician certified pursuant to Section 108 who
is responsible for supervising no more than one uncertified person.
An employer who is found by the division to have failed to provide
adequate supervision may be barred by the division from employing
uncertified individuals pursuant to this section in the future.
(b) For purposes of this section, "an approved curriculum of
classroom instruction" means a curriculum of classroom instruction
approved by the electrician certification curriculum committee
established pursuant to paragraph (6) of subdivision (a) of Section
108 and provided under the jurisdiction of the State Department of
Education, the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, or the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational
Education.
(c) The curriculum committee may grant approval to an educational
provider that presently offers only a partial curriculum if the
educational provider intends in the future to offer, or to cooperate
with other educational providers to offer, a complete curriculum for
the type of certification involved. The curriculum committee may
require an educational provider receiving approval for a partial
curriculum to periodically renew its approval with the curriculum
committee until a complete curriculum is offered and approved. A
partial curriculum means a combination of classes that does not
include all classroom educational components of the complete
curriculum for one of the categories of certification established in
accordance with subdivision (c) of Section 108.2.
(d) An educational provider that receives approval for a partial
curriculum must disclose in all communications to students and to the
public that the educational provider has only received approval for
a partial curriculum and shall not make any representations that the
provider offers a complete approved curriculum of classroom
instruction as established by subparagraph (A) of paragraph (6) of
subdivision (a) of Section 108.
(e) For purposes of this section, a person is enrolled in an
approved curriculum of classroom instruction if the person is
attending classes on a full-time or part-time basis toward the
completion of an approved curriculum.
(f) Registration under this section shall be renewed annually and
the registrant shall provide to the division certification of the
classwork completed and on-the-job experience acquired since the
prior registration.
(g) For purposes of verifying the information provided by a person
registered with the division, an educational provider of an approved
curriculum of classroom instruction shall, upon the division's
request, provide the division with information regarding the
enrollment status and instruction completed by a person registered.
By registering with the division in accordance with this section, a
person consents to the release of this information.
(h) The division shall establish registration fees necessary to
implement this section, not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) for
the initial registration. There shall be no fee for annual renewal of
registration. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
fees collected are continuously appropriated in an amount sufficient
to administer this section and that amount may be expended by the
division for this purpose.
(i) The division shall issue regulations to implement this
section.
(j) For purposes of Section 1773, persons employed pursuant to
this section do not constitute a separate craft, classification, or
type of worker.
(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an uncertified
person who has completed an approved curriculum of classroom
instruction and is currently registered with the division may take
the certification examination. The person shall be certified upon
passing the examination and satisfactorily completing the requisite
number of on-the-job hours required for certification. A person who
passes the examination prior to completing the requisite hours of
on-the-job experience shall continue to comply with subdivision (f).