Procedures Manual
Operating Procedures Title: Minnesota State Licensing Laws
Procedure Number: P - 4
Effective date: August 1, 1974
Revision date: July 1, 2004
Page number: 1 of 4


MINNESOTA STATE LICENSING LAWS:
  1. Licensed Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architect: (MN. Stat. Sections 326.02 - 325.15)

    In order to safeguard life, health, and property, and to promote the public welfare, any person in either public or private capacity practicing, or offering to practice, architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, or professional geoscience, or using the title certified interior designer in this state, either as an individual, a copoartner, or as agent of another, shall be licensed or certified as hereinafter provided.  It shall be unlawful for any person to practice, or to offer to practice, in this state, architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape architectue, or professional geoscience, or to use the title certified interior desinger, or to solicit or to contract to furnish work within the terms of sections 326.02 to 326.15, or to use in connection with the person's name, or to otherwise assume, use or advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that the person is an architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, professional geoscientist, or certified interior designer, unless such person is qualified by licensure or certification under sections 326.02 to 326.15.

    A person in direct supervision of work is construed to mean the person whose professional skill and judgment are embodied in the document signed & who assumes responsibility for the accuracy and adequacy thereof.

     II.  Minnesota Electrical Act( Minn. Stat. Section 326.241-326.248)

  1. Master Electrician. Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall plan, install, alter, repair, lay out or supervise the installing, altering or repairing of wiring, apparatus or equipment for electrical light, heat, power or other purposes unless the person is a licensed master electrician.
  2. Journeyman Electrician. Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall wire for, install alter, repair or supervise the installing, altering or repairing of electrical wiring, apparatus or equipment, for light, heat, power or other purposes unless the person is a licensed journeyman electrician.
  3. Power Limited Technician Contractor's Licenses. No person may lay out, install, maintain or repair alarm and communication systems, unless the person is a licensed alarm & communication contractor or is a licensed electrical contractor or an employee of the contractor.
  4. Maintenance Electrician. No person may maintain and repair electrical wiring, apparatus and equipment, unless the person is a licensed maintenance electrician or unless the person is an unlicensed maintenance electrician supervised by a master electrician or registered electrical engineer.
  5. Definitions:
    1. Maintain and repairing electrical wiring, apparatus and equipment, means the adjustment, repair or replacement of worn or defective parts of electrical equipment, replacement of defective receptacle outlets and manual switches for lighting control, but does not include the installation of new wiring, apparatus and equipment or additions, alterations or extensions to existing wiring, apparatus or equipment.
    2. Unlicensed Maintenance Electrician must be supervised by a master electrician or registered electrical engineer.

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