furbis

just read my email from nathan about the new site and think its a great idea, but it looks like MD's is the only one with topic ideas so I thought I would throw this out to you guys.

In Colorado we have to take an open book test every 2 yrs to renew our license, not a big deal 25 ?? and you have over a month to get it done, also many big shops will have a get together for everyone to work on the test together (or to just give everyone the answeres ). I'm just wondering what everyone else has to do to keep your license up to date.

K&R

In TN. right now we have to pay $250 every 2 years and that is it. They are talking about making you take some CEU credits soon though.

jbfan

We renew ours every two years. Just send the money in and state that you have completed the 4 hours per year of CEU's.
You would need to keep the CEU's for 5 years.
$75 renewal.

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sundogusa

In WI we are moving to 4 years. Need to take 24 CEUs over the 4 year time period. Cost will be $200

MDShunk

My state does not license electricians on a statewide basis. I have to collect lots of little licenses from various jurisdictions. Once you pass their test, all you have to do is have your insurance man send in whatever it is they send to prove you have insurance. Viola, you're an electrician forever. I have no problem with CE courses or retesting from time to time. It just doesn't exist here, therefore I don't take them. We have pretty well standardized codes for all building trades now. I'm not sure why licensing and the associated testing didn't follow suit.

robertwilber

Annual renewal in every township, varies from $35 to $125.
Only Philadelphia requires CEUs, but they haven't started checking yet.
They promise "spot checks" this year.

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MDShunk

Nice to have you, Robert

If I had annual renewal fees here in the middle the way you do over on the east side, I'd have to re-evaluate where all I really want to work.

How does that work, anyway? Can you let one "lapse", then just renew if you get a big job in that particular jurisdiction that would make it worth renewing?

itsunclebill

All Colorado's test does is force "somebody" in an organization to crack a code book once in a while. This year the renewal was REQUIRED to be done on line, which gives you about 6 or 7 weeks from the time you print the questions till you have to answer them. I get a lot better workout on the job and these forums.

The plus of our license here is that it is valid statewide and all you need to do to work in a jurisdiction is show the contractor's license, master's license, copy of proof of insurance (sometimes) and fill in the paperwork. Then you get a local registration (at no charge by state law)and yet another number to deal with.

The contractor, master, and journey license renewal this year totaled $192.00 and are good for 2 years. The pain is all the individual renewals for each jurisdiction, 38 in my case.

sparkysteve

In Michigan, you take your Journeyman test after 4 years of apprenticeship with required schooling. Then pay $20 a year to renew it. I think a masters is $25.

John

In Vermont the Master Electrician license costs $120 and the License is good for three years (this just happens to put the license renewal in sink with the NEC for some strange reason). Plus you have to have 16 CEU’s with the chance of having to listening to Mike Holt babbling about the NEC. Might as well bring a pillow the guy is just plain Boring. I always try to find a course that the instructor DOSN”T use his videos. But sometimes the instructor sneaks him in.

If you have an electrician's license in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine or Massachusetts you can get a license in one of the other states through a license reciprocity agreement between these states. This is good because at least the states are working on some kind of standardization of licenses.
I used to have licenses in New Hampshire and Maine but just haven’t bothered to renew them. It was just starting to be a PITA trying to keep track of the training and when they were due for renewal. I wasn’t doing as much work in those states as I used to, so just didn’t bother renewing them.

robertwilber

Yeah, let them lapse 'til you need them.
I let everything go each year except City of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia has some garbage going on right now where the City Council is considering a bill which would make it impossible to legally employ anyone who isn't Union. It doesn't say that, but the wording is such that only Union personnel can meet the proposed stipulations of "acceptable" training.

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raider1

In Utah we have to pay $50.00 every two years and have 16 hours of CEU's to renew either your journeyman's or masters license.

Chris

Mark Henderson

Here in Texas it is a state license and you have to have 4 hours contiued education every year at $45.00. Then renew with the state witch vaarys by license type.

Mark

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rabbitgun

For you Colorado renewal guy's. The only way to renew is on-line which means you will need to take the test on-line. However, you can register, go to the test and then print it out, cancel your test session. That will give you time to answer on paper and double check your answers then go back and fill in the on-line test.

Speedy Petey

Here in NYS I am in about the same boat as Pa. Thing is very few areas around me require any licensing. There is no statewide.

The village in my town requires one as well as the city to the south of me, which is where I hold mine. What's nice is they both reciprocate, so I only have to hold the one.
The county above me has one of the few county-wide licenses in NYS. I am quite close to them but I really do not do much work up there so I have not bothered to get that one.
The county across the river from me was threatening to implement a $500/yr license. The transparency of this proposal was pathetic to say the least.

Many parts of downstate do not recip so as Marc said, you wind up with a wall full of "receipts" for all the $$$ you've shelled out to retain the privilege to work in your home area.

So for me it's $100 a year and proof of insurance.

Bobbyj

Kentucky requires 100.00 per year, and 6 hours of documented CEU per year for your master electrician's license, and an aditional 6 hours of documented CEU per year and 250.00 per year for your contractor's license. For a Journeyman license I think it's 50.00 per year and six hour of documented CEU per year. No job in this state can be conducted without a licensed electrician on the job site.

Joe Momma

That's awesome though around here the community college also offers accepatable training

In Utah as an apprentice I pay 60 bucks every 2 years, a journeyman I think is double and needs 16 hours continuing ed., 8 of which are code only.
It's statewide and they just changed the date from July to right before Christmas(November anyways).
I can't let mine lapse otherwise I start over as an apprentice, though right now we have a few hundred travelling journeyman all holding apprentice licenses

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sundogusa

Too bad. Yoou need someone to represent the non-union guys and stand up in the City Council and tell them there are alternatives to union trained, and those are acceptable programs.

Joe Momma

I think PA is a right to work state, meaning there is no such thing as exclusive schooling.
Those guys could go to the hall and take the classes being offered, and the hall could win a few for the home team in the mean time, ha ha

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erich7502

This may sound like a lude question, but am curious, has anybody ever heard of an electrical contractor in one state being paid from an individual in another state for hour verification? As I said, I am just curious on this.

I have a simalar problem. here is the scenerio.

Company that was worked for went bankrupt, no one is available and there was no license requirements for Limited Energy in the first place. then moved to a new state and that state requires a license. I have met many licensed people who have had their hours verified by another contractor on their letterhead. Thus the state gave them the ability to take the exam.