§ 59-1696 — Municipal supervision and inspection of electrical

facilities. Nothing in the Electrical License Act shall prohibit cities and towns from having full authority to provide supervision and inspection of electrical facilities by the enactment of codes, ordinances, bylaws, and rules in such form as they may determine and prescribe for their jurisdiction; provided, that no such codes, ordinances, bylaws, and rules shall be inconsistent with the Electrical License Act, or any rule adopted or prescribed by the Construction Industries Board as authorized by the Electrical License Act. Each state licensed electrical contractor shall be required to register with any city or town in whose jurisdiction the licensee operates. Each such city or town is authorized to register such electrical contractor, to revoke the registration, to charge fees for the registration and for permits and inspections of electrical work. No electrical contractor shall be permitted to do business or work in any city or town where the local registration of the electrical contractor has been revoked.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1982, c. 337, § 17. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 155, § 9, eff. July 1, 1994; Laws 2001, c. 394, § 49, eff. Jan. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 318, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.