No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of wiring, rewiring, installing, repairing or altering any electrical wiring or installing or repairing any electrical apparatus, appliance or fixtures of any kind or description within the limits of any city, county or metropolitan area within the provision of this act without securing from the joint electrical examining and appeals board, herein authorized, a license. Any person desiring a license shall file with the said board an application showing the name of the person, firm or corporation in whose name said license is to be issued, the kind of license applied for, the name of the certificate holder under whose supervision work will be done, the number and date of such certificate, and such further information as may be required by the board. Said license shall bear the name of the certificate holder on the face of the license. All applications shall be signed by the applicant or a member of the firm or an authorized officer of the corporation making the application, and shall also be signed by the holder of the supporting certificate and the certificate shall be attached to the application. The board, if it finds said application is proper and in accordance with law, shall approve said application and retain the certificate for its file upon furnishing the applicant with a proper receipt therefor. If said certificate is withdrawn by the owner thereof, said license shall become inoperative and no further permits shall be issued by the electrical inspector to such license. Such license may be reinstated and rendered operative by the filing with the board of another proper certificate of the joint electrical examining and appeals board.

No certificate of competency holder shall be entitled to have operative more than one license in any classification under this act at any given time. The certificate of competency holder shall notify the board immediately of any change affecting his certificate or license. The holder of a certificate of competency must at all times be directly associated with the licensee and be in a position to control or supervise work performed by the firm licensed under his certificate of competency. Continued or recurring absence from the city, county or metropolitan area by the certificate holder during times when jobs or work is being performed by the licensee shall be deemed prima facie evidence that such certificate holder is not exercising the control or supervision herein required.

In the event of the death of a certificate holder who has been licensed as an individual, or in the event of the death, disability or withdrawal of that person holding the certificate upon which a license has been issued to a partnership or a corporation, the estate of the deceased individual, the surviving partners or the corporation, as the case may be, shall be permitted to complete all work then in progress. The estate, the surviving partners or the corporation shall have a one-hundred-twenty-day period within which to affiliate another certificate holder if it desires to continue to conduct business under the license then in effect. If such affiliation occurs, the license shall remain valid and renewable; if such affiliation does not occur, the license shall expire at the end of the one-hundred-twenty-day period, and shall not authorize the performance of any work other than uncompleted work which was in progress at the time of the death, disability or withdrawal of the certificate holder.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 406, § 9, emerg. eff. July 5, 1965.