Act No. 73

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

April 5, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 5, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 4, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Reps. Price, Johnson, Rendon, Kelly, Crawford, Yonker, Lauwers, Somerville, Franz, Victory, Jacobsen, Brett Roberts, Garcia and Tedder

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4813

AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 217, entitled “An act to safeguard persons and property; to provide for licensing and regulation of electricians and electrical contractors concerning the construction, alteration, installation of electrical wiring and equipment and for the inspection of electrical wiring; to create an electrical administrative board; to create certain committees for certain purposes; to provide certain powers and duties for certain departments; to provide for the assessment of certain fees and for the promulgation of rules; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act,” by amending section 3e (MCL 338.883e), as added by 1990 PA 246.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3e. (1) An individual who is employed as an apprentice electrician shall register with the board on a form provided by the board within 30 days after employment.

(2) The department of licensing and regulatory affairs shall issue a certificate of registration to an individual who is seeking registration if it receives satisfactory proof of the individual’s participation in an apprenticeship training program approved by the board under subsection (4).

(3) The ratio of electrical journeymen or master electricians to registered apprentice electricians shall be on the basis of 1 electrical journeyman or master electrician to no more than 3 registered apprentice electricians. The department of licensing and regulatory affairs or an enforcing agency shall enforce the ratio on a jobsite basis.

(4) For the purposes of this section, the board shall approve any bona fide apprenticeship training program that complies with subsection (3) and, excluding that which is covered under subsection (3), is equivalent to or exceeds the requirements of those imposed by the Office of Apprenticeship in the United States Department of Labor.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor