§ 43-09-01 — Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Alteration" means any substantial change to a conveyance and any part, component,
or subsystem of the conveyance, but does not include routine maintenance of a
conveyance.
2. "Apprentice electrician" means an individual who is learning the trade under the
personal supervision of a state-licensed electrician.
3. "Board" means the state electrical board.
4. "Class B electrician" means an individual who has the necessary qualifications,
training, and technical knowledge to wire, install, and repair electrical apparatus and
equipment in accordance with the standard rules and regulations governing such work,
who has eighteen months' experience in farmstead or residential wiring, and passed
an examination before the state electrical board based upon the national electrical
code as it applies to farmstead or residential wiring.
5. "Conveyance" means an elevator, escalator, stairway chairlift, platform lift, stage lift,
orchestra lift, hoist, dumbwaiter, moving walk, automated people mover, automated-
type parking structure, wind turbine elevator, or other device used for moving
individuals, materials, equipment, or other objects from one landing or location to
another.
6. "Elevator contractor" means any person engaged in the business of constructing,
installing, altering, replacing, decommissioning, dismantling, demolishing, removing
from service, repairing, servicing, inspecting, or testing a conveyance.
7. "Elevator inspector" means an individual, approved by the board, to inspect and
witness a test of a conveyance.
8. "Elevator mechanic" means an individual engaged in elevator contracting.
9. "Journeyman electrician" means an individual who has the necessary qualifications,
training, and technical knowledge to wire, install, and repair electrical apparatus and
equipment and power limited systems in accordance with the standard rules and
regulations governing such work.
10. "Licensee" means an individual who holds a valid license issued by the board.
11. "Master electrician" means an individual who has the necessary qualifications, training,
experience, and technical knowledge to plan, lay out, and supervise the installation
and repair of electrical wiring apparatus, and equipment for electric light, heat, power,
and power limited systems, in accordance with the standard rules and regulations
governing such work.
12. "Nonelectrical system" means a system as defined by the articles contained in
chapter 8 and other articles which contains class II or class III circuits and systems as
defined by the national electrical code, as adopted by the board. Although the board
may expand this definition, the board may not narrow this definition. The term does not
include a circuit or system that is installed:
a. Within an area of special occupancies, as defined under articles 500 through 517
of the national electrical code.
b. For heat, light, or power.
c. For the control of heat, light, or power, unless the circuit or system employs digital
communication.
13. "Power limited electrician" means an individual who has the necessary qualifications,
training, experience, and technical knowledge to plan, layout, and supervise the
installation and repair of a power limited system.
14. "Power limited system" means a system as defined by the articles contained in
chapter 8 and other articles which contains class II or class III circuits and systems as
defined by the national electrical code, as adopted by the board. Although the board
may expand this definition, the term does not include a nonelectrical system.