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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 827, THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF ELECTRICIANS, CONTRACTORS, ETC., UNDER THE ELECTRICAL CODE FOR THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
Section 1: Section 1 of Ordinance No. 827 is amended as follows: Examinations; Qualifications of Applicants. The board shall examine all applicants applying to do electrical work to determine their competency. All applications for the electrical examinations will be taken before the first Thursday in December or the first Thursday in June. The examination will be given sometime after the first Thursday in January or July. The examinations will be graded in the February or August meetings. All applicants must be at least 20 years of age, pass the examinations prescribed by the board, and meet the following requirements:
A. Master Electrician:
1. A master electrician is defined to be a person having the general charge and supervision of the business of installing electrical wires, electrical machinery, apparatus, devises and instruments.
2. The person must be a journeyman electrician with at least four years practical experience as a journeyman in installing wires, conductors, and other electrical equipment, machinery and apparatus used for the transmission of electrical current, for light, heat, power or signaling.
3. Must have a technical knowledge of such matters necessary to satisfactorily passed examinations provided by the board.
4. Education from a recognized college or university of technical school will be accepted as experience on the basis of ½ of the actual time spent in college in the electrical field can be counted as experience.
5. The time element of experience for all applicants for master electrician’s licenses must be immediately preceding the date of his application.
6. Any person passing the examination and holding a master electricians license shall not...
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