New Licenses for Construction Contractors, Electrical Administrators and Contractors, and Elevator Contractors

The Department of Labor and Industries has redesigned the license, registration and certificates issued to construction, electrical, elevator contractors, and electrical administrators. Contractors and administrators will no longer receive a wallet size card.

Trades people, (electricians, trainees, elevator mechanics, plumbers, and manufactured home installers) must have their certificate/license card with them when on the jobsite. Trades people will be issued a new more durable plastic wallet sized card.  These new cards will also have a color stripe to help identify their qualifications and certification.

• Green stripe:

o       Indicates journeyman status – No supervision is required for workers with a green stripe when working in their respective industry.

§       Master General Electricians (01)

§       General Electricians (01)

§       Plumbers

§       Elevator Mechanics

§       Manufactured Home Installers

• Yellow stripe:

o       Indicates person is certified to work without supervision within a specific specialty.  Individuals with this color have qualified for, taken, and passed an examination for a specific specialty. No supervision is required for workers with a yellow stripe when working in their specific specialty.

§       Specialty Master Electricians

§       Specialty Electricians

§       Specialty Plumbers

§       Modified Electrical Trainees (unsupervised)

• Red stripe:

o       Indicates person is a trainee or has a temporary certificate.  Individuals with this color have not qualified for, taken, and passed an examination for the certification.

§       Trainee: requires some level of supervision.

§       Temporary elevator mechanic: does not require supervision.

The new certificates and cards will be issued beginning August, 2011.