File #: Int 0437-2024    Version: * Name: The license term for master electrician and special electrician licenses.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the license term for master electrician and special electrician licenses
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Amanda Farías, Tiffany Cabán, Kalman Yeger , Farah N. Louis, Yusef Salaam, Lincoln Restler, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would change the license term for master electricians and special electricians from 1 year to 3 years. This would apply to initial license applications and renewal applications. This bill would also reduce the continuing education requirement for master electrician and special electrician licenses from at least 8 hours annually to at least 8 hours every three years.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 437, 2. Int. No. 437, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 437

 

By Council Members Sanchez, Farías, Cabán, Yeger, Louis, Salaam and Restler (by request of the Mayor)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the license term for master electrician and special electrician licenses

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision g of section 27-3014 of Chapter 3 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as renumbered by local law 39 for the year 2011, is amended to read as follows:

g. Each license and seal shall be issued for [one year] three years and the full fee shall be payable irrespective of the date of issue.

§ 2. Subdivision a of Section 27-3015 of Chapter 3 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 39 for the year 2011, is amended to read as follows:

     a.  Any license and seal issued hereunder shall expire [one year] three years from the year of issuance on the licensee’s date of birth for that year irrespective of the date of issue. Such license may be renewed every [year] three years thereafter without examination, provided application for such renewal, accompanied by the renewal fees prescribed above and such information as may be required by the commissioner to ensure compliance with section 27-3016 of this chapter and evidence of insurance coverage in compliance with section 27-3013 of this chapter, shall have been filed prior to the expiration of the existing license.

1.  Where an applicant can show good and sufficient cause for his or her inability to renew his or her license and seal before its expiration, the commissioner may, upon submission of a complete application for late renewal within ninety (90) days after the expiration of such license, permit the issuance, without examination, of a new license and seal upon payment of the prescribed fees for such new license and seal within said ninety days.  The commissioner may promulgate rules authorizing the renewal of a license up to six months after the expiration of such license for extenuating circumstances.

2.  No license shall be renewed and no new license and seal shall be issued unless all outstanding fees required by section 27-3018 of this code have been paid.

3. Renewal shall also be subject to the licensee’s good moral character. As provided in department rule, the licensee’s failure to clear open violations in a timely manner may result in the refusal to renew a license until the violations are resolved.

4. The commissioner may promulgate rules requiring applicants for the renewal of master or special electrician’s licenses to submit proof, in such form as he or she shall determine, that, [in each year of] during the license term, such applicant completed at least eight hours of continuing education courses approved by the department.  Such proof shall be submitted with the license renewal application.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

Session 13

LS # 13918

1/25/24

 

Session 12

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LS # 13918

6/21/23 2:50 PM