A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the electrical contractors board to raise the project value limits for license classifications under the laws regulating electrical contractors.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 87‑43.3 reads as rewritten:
"§ 87‑43.3.  Classification of licenses.
An electrical contracting license shall be issued in one of the following classifications: Limited, under which a licensee shall be permitted to engage in a single electrical contracting project of a value not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) and on which the equipment or installation in the contract is rated at not more than 600 volts; Intermediate, under which a licensee shall be permitted to engage in a single electrical contracting project of a value not in excess of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000); Unlimited, under which a licensee shall be permitted to engage in any electrical contracting project regardless of value; and such other special Restricted classifications as the Board may establish from time to time to provide, (i) for the licensing of persons, partnerships, firms or corporations wishing to engage in special restricted electrical contracting, under which license a licensee shall be permitted to engage only in a specific phase of electrical contracting of a special, limited nature, and (ii) for the licensing of persons, partnerships, firms or corporations wishing to engage in electrical contracting work as an incidental part of their primary business, which is a lawful business other than electrical contracting, under which license a licensee shall be permitted to engage only in a specific phase of electrical contracting of a special, limited nature directly in connection with said primary business. The Board may establish appropriate standards for each classification, such standards not to be inconsistent with the provisions of G.S. 87‑42. The Board may, by rule, modify the project value limitations up to the maximum amounts set forth in this section for limited and intermediate licenses no more than once every three years based upon an increase or decrease in the project cost index for electrical projects in this State."
SECTION 2.  Effective on the date this act becomes law and until changed by permanent rule adopted by the Board, the project value limitation for the Limited classification shall be forty thousand dollars ($40,000) and the project value limitation for the Intermediate classification shall be one hundred ten thousand dollars ($110,000).
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.