Code of Alabama - Title 34: Professions and Businesses - Chapter 36 - Electrical Contractors

• Section 34-36-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama Electrical Contractors Act" and shall be construed and implemented to promote the purposes...
• Section 34-36-2 Declaration of purpose
  The "Alabama Electrical Contractors Act" is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding homeowners and other property owners and tenants against faulty, inadequate, inefficient, or unsafe...
• Section 34-36-3 Definitions
  The following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them used in this chapter, for the purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly...
• Section 34-36-4 Board of Electrical Contractors
  (a) The Alabama Board of Electrical Contractors is created. (b) A person to be eligible for appointment to serve on the board shall be a...
• Section 34-36-5 Compensation of board members
  The members of the board shall receive up to three hundred dollars ($300) per day with a limit of 15 days per year while performing...
• Section 34-36-6 Powers and duties of board
  (a) By rule, the board shall make provisions to do all of the following: (1) Prepare or approve all examinations of applicants for licenses for...
• Section 34-36-7 Examinations; reciprocity with other states; issuance of license; qualification requirements
  (a) All applicants for licensure must submit a completed application, application fee, and supportive documentation of qualifications before taking an examination approved by the board....
• Section 34-36-8 Expiration and renewal of licenses; continuing education; inactive status
  (a) All licenses shall expire annually or at other times designated by the board. All applications for renewal of licenses shall be filed with the...
• Section 34-36-9 Failure to renew license; restoration fee; new license
  An expired license for an electrical contractor which has expired for failure to renew may only be restored within five years from the date of...
• Section 34-36-10 Expiration of suspended licenses
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and must be renewed or restored as provided in this chapter during the term of suspension.
• Section 34-36-11 Fees
  The board is empowered to establish and charge reasonable fees for the administration of examinations, issuance of all active and inactive licenses, and supplying information...
• Section 34-36-12 Display of licenses
  Every person holding a license issued by the board shall display it in a conspicuous manner at his or her principal place of business.
• Section 34-36-13 License required; exemptions
  (a) No person shall engage in the electrical contracting business or perform work as a master or journeyman electrician unless such person shall have received...
• Section 34-36-14 Electrical Appeals and Advisory Board; appointment, qualifications, terms and compensation of members; rules for appeals
  Repealed by Act 2010-540, p. 932, §3, effective July 1, 2010.
• Section 34-36-15 Injunctive power
  Electrical contracting involves activities affecting the public interest and the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Such activities, when engaged in by a person...
• Section 34-36-16 Violations; penalties
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this chapter regulating electrical contracting, and any person convicted of such violation...
• Section 34-36-17 Funding
  There is hereby established a separate fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Alabama Board of Electrical Contractors Fund. All money derived...
• Section 34-36-18 Construction of chapter
  This chapter shall not be construed as authorizing the employment of statewide electrical inspectors.

Last modified: May 3, 2021