36-16-16. Persons exempt from license requirement. The following persons are not required to hold an electrician's license:

(1) Employees of utilities engaged in the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy, when engaged in work directly pertaining to the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy or persons or companies when engaged in work pertaining directly to such services, if the work is designed, supervised, or installed by a person qualified in the work being done. This exemption shall terminate at the first point of service attachment, except for the installing or testing of electric meters and measuring devices and the maintenance of their service;

(2) Employees of telephone, telegraph, radio and television communication services and pipelines or persons or companies when engaged in work pertaining directly to such services, if the work is designed, supervised or installed by a person qualified in the work being done;

(3) Electrical work and equipment in mines, ships, railways, rolling stock or automotive equipment, and in packing plants supervised and regulated by the Department of Agriculture;

(4) Replacement of lamps and connection of portable electrical devices to suitable receptacles which have been permanently installed;

(5) Radio and appliance service repair departments;

(6) Maintenance on oil burners and space heaters where installation of same has been effected by a Class B or journeyman electrician in accordance with this chapter;

(7) Architects, designers, and engineers engaged in the planning and laying out of electrical work;

(8) Employees of electrical utilities engaged in the installation and maintenance of utility street lighting, traffic signal devices or electric utility-owned security lights or persons or companies when engaged in work pertaining directly to such services, if the work is designed, supervised, or installed by a person qualified in the work being done; or

(9) Employees of alarm and communications companies or services when wiring an alarm or communications system when the system is classified as power limited class 2 or class 3 signaling circuits, power limited fire protective signaling circuits, class 2 or class 3 alarm circuits, or communications circuits or systems, as covered by articles 725, 760, 770, 800, 810, 820 of the National Electrical Code as it was approved by the American National Standards Institute and in effect on January 1, 1989, or persons or companies when engaged in work pertaining directly to such services, if the work is designed, supervised, or installed by a person qualified in the work being done.Source: SL 1963, ch 216, § 12; SL 1965, ch 152, § 1; SL 1986, ch 315, § 5; SL 1988, ch 302; SL 1989, ch 327; SL 1991, ch 308, § 6; SL 2011, ch 179, § 4.