103.2 - ELECTRICAL EXAMINING BOARD CREATED. - Iowa Statutes

103.2 ELECTRICAL EXAMINING BOARD CREATED. 1. An electrical examining board is created within the division of state fire marshal of the department of public safety. The board shall consist of eleven voting members appointed by the governor and subject to senate confirmation, all of whom shall be residents of this state. 2. The members shall be as follows: a. Two members shall be journeyman electricians, one a member of an electrical workers union covered under a collective bargaining agreement and one not a member of a union. b. Two members shall be master electricians or electrical contractors, one of whom is a contractor signed to a collective bargaining agreement or a master electrician covered under a collective bargaining agreement and one of whom is a contractor not signed to a collective bargaining agreement or a master electrician who is not a member of a union. c. One member shall be an electrical inspector. d. Two members, one a union member covered under a collective bargaining agreement and one who is not a member of a union, each of whom shall not be a member of any of the groups described in paragraphs "a" through "c", and shall represent the general public. e. One member shall be the state fire marshal or a representative of the state fire marshal's office. f. One member shall be a local building official employed by a political subdivision to perform electrical inspections for that political subdivision. g. One member shall represent a public utility. h. One member shall be an engineer licensed pursuant to chapter 542B with a background in electrical engineering. 3. The public members of the board shall be allowed to participate in administrative, clerical, or ministerial functions incident to giving a licensure examination, but shall not determine the content of the examination or determine the correctness of the answers. Professional associations or societies composed of licensed electricians may recommend to the governor the names of potential board members whose profession is representative of that association or society. However, the governor is not bound by the recommendations. A board member shall not be required to be a member of any professional electrician association or society.          Section History: Recent Form 2007 Acts, ch 197, §12, 50; 2008 Acts, ch 1092, §11, 32 Referred to in § 100C.10, 103.1 Confirmation, see §2.32          Footnotes Recommendation to general assembly regarding implementation of statewide inspection program due by January 1, 2011; 2009 Acts, ch 151, §33