Bill Text: MI HB4591 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Occupations; alarm systems; installation of certain home monitoring systems without electrician's permit; authorize for registered or licensed security alarm providers. Amends secs. 6 & 7 of 1956 PA 217 (MCL 338.886 & 338.887).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 17-6)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-03 - Assigned Pa 69'13 With Immediate Effect [HB4591 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4591-Engrossed.html
HB-4591, As Passed House, May 22, 2013
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4591
A bill to amend 1956 PA 217, entitled
"Electrical administrative act,"
by amending sections 6 and 7 (MCL 338.886 and 338.887), section 6
as amended by 1992 PA 130 and section 7 as amended by 2002 PA 205.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 6. (1) This act, except as otherwise provided for in this
section,
shall does not apply within the jurisdiction of a city,
village,
or township which that
adopts or has adopted or hereafter
adopts
an ordinance providing that provides standards for the
examination and licensing of master electricians, electrical or
specialty contractors, electrical journeymen, sign specialists, and
fire alarm specialty technicians and the registration of apprentice
electricians
and fire alarm specialty apprentice technicians which
are
not less than that are at
least as stringent as those
prescribed by this act; providing for enforcement that is
substantially similar to this act; providing for civil and criminal
penalties and a citation system for minor violations substantially
similar to section 8c; providing for the issuance of an
identification card that substantially complies with the
requirements imposed in section 8c; and providing for the
inspection of electrical wiring and equipment.
(2) This act shall not be construed as limiting the power of a
municipality
to enact such an ordinance
described in subsection
(1), to provide for the licensing of persons ,
firms, or
corporations
as electrical or specialty
contractors who that have a
place of business located in the municipality, or to provide for
the licensing of journeymen electricians, sign specialists, or fire
alarm specialty technicians who reside in the municipality except
that
the ordinance shall not require either any of the following:
(a) The procurement of a license or permit to execute the
classes
of work specified in section 7(c), 7(3)(c), (d), (e), and
(f).
(b) The procurement of a permit by a provider to install,
maintain, replace, or service any electrical wiring, equipment, or
devices associated with a home monitoring system that is not part
of a security alarm system. As used in this subdivision and
subdivision (c):
(i) "Home monitoring system" means a device or an assembly of
equipment and devices that allows individuals to remotely monitor
their home through audio, video, or sensor detection systems and
that may allow them to remotely control the home's environment,
including, but not limited to, controlling temperature, humidity,
lighting, doors, or locks.
(ii) "Provider" means a system provider that is registered
under the security alarm systems act, 2012 PA 580, MCL 338.2181 to
338.2187, or a security alarm system contractor licensed under the
private security business and security alarm act, 1968 PA 330, MCL
338.1051 to 338.1092.
(iii) "Security alarm system" means that term as defined in
section 2 of the security alarm systems act, 2012 PA 580, MCL
338.2182, or section 2 of the private security business and
security alarm act, 1968 PA 330, MCL 338.1052.
(c) The procurement of a license or permit by a provider to
install, maintain, replace, or service any electrical wiring,
equipment, or devices associated with a security alarm system.
(d) (b)
The procurement of public liability
insurance in
excess
of the coverage required by under
this act.
(3)
Licenses or registrations A
license or registration issued
by the board under this act and licenses issued by a municipality
having
that have standards for licensing not less than at least as
stringent as those established by the board shall be recognized by
all municipalities.
(4)
A municipality providing that
provides for electrical
inspection by local ordinance may require all electrical or
specialty contractors, sign specialists, fire alarm specialty
technicians, and classes of electricians doing work in the
municipality to register in accordance with its local ordinance.
(5) Municipal registration requirements shall be reciprocal
between the municipalities and between municipalities and the board
as to registration requirements and fees, except that licensed
electrical journeymen, sign specialists, and fire alarm specialty
technicians
shall are not be required to register to work in
municipalities
under the jurisdiction of the board. All licenses
and
registrations A municipality
shall officially recognize a
license
or registration issued under this act shall
be officially
recognized
by any municipality.for
purposes of its ordinance.
Sec. 7. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act or in
subsection
(3), a person , firm, or corporation shall not engage in
the
business of electrical contracting unless the person ,
firm, or
corporation
has received from the board or from
the appropriate
municipality an electrical contractor's license.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this act or in subsection
(3),
a person, an individual, other than a person an individual who
is licensed under this act and employed by and working under the
direction of a holder of an electrical contractor's license, shall
not in any manner undertake to execute any electrical wiring.
(3) A license under this act is not required in the execution
of the following classes of work:
(a)
Minor repair work. , as defined in section 1.
(b) The installation, alteration, repairing, rebuilding, or
remodeling of elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, or man lifts
performed under a permit issued by an elevator inspection agency of
the
this state of Michigan or political subdivision of
the this
state. of
Michigan.
(c) The installation, alteration, or repair of electrical
equipment and its associated wiring installed on the premises of
consumers or subscribers by or for an electrical energy supply or
communication
agencies agency for use by such agencies that agency
in the generation, transmission, distribution, or metering of
electrical energy or for the operation of signals or transmission
of intelligence.
(d) The installation, alteration, or repair of electric wiring
for the generation and primary distribution of electric current, or
the secondary distribution system up to and including the meters,
where
such that work is an integral part of the system owned and
operated by an electric light and power utility in rendering its
duly authorized service.
(e) Any work involved in the manufacture of electric
equipment,
including the testing and repairing of such that
manufactured equipment.
(f) The installation, alteration, or repair of equipment and
its associated wiring for the generation or distribution of
electric energy for the operation of signals or transmission of
intelligence
where such work is if that
work is performed in
connection with a communication system owned or operated by a
telephone or telegraph company in rendering its authorized service
as a telephone or telegraph company.
(g) Any installation, alteration, or repair of electrical
equipment by a homeowner in a single family home and accompanying
outbuildings
owned and occupied or to be occupied by the person
individual who is performing the installation, alteration, or
repair of electrical equipment.
(h) Any work involved in the use, maintenance, operation,
dismantling, or reassembling of motion picture and theatrical
equipment used in any building with approved facilities for
entertainment
or educational use and which that
has the necessary
permanent wiring and floor and wall receptacle outlets designed for
the
proper and safe use of such that
theatrical equipment, but not
including any permanent wiring.
(i)
Work performed by a mechanical contractors contractor
licensed
in classifications a
classification listed in section
6(3)(a), (b), (d), (e), and (f) of the Forbes mechanical
contractors
act, 1984 PA 192, MCL 338.976, a plumbing contractors
contractor
licensed under 1929 PA 266, MCL
338.901 to 338.917, the
state plumbing act, 2002 PA 733, MCL 338.3511 to 338.3569, and
employees of persons licensed under those acts, while performing
maintenance, service, repair, replacement, alteration,
modification, reconstruction, or upgrading of control wiring
circuits and electrical component parts within existing mechanical
systems defined in the mechanical and plumbing codes provided for
in the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act,
1972 PA 230, MCL 125.1501 to 125.1531, including, but not limited
to, energy management systems, relays and controls on boilers,
water heaters, furnaces, air conditioning compressors and
condensers, fan controls, thermostats and sensors, and all
interconnecting wiring associated with the mechanical systems in
buildings which are on the load side of the unit disconnect, which
is located on or immediately adjacent to the equipment, except for
life safety systems wiring.
(j) Electrical wiring associated with the installation,
removal, alteration, or repair of a water well pump on a single
family dwelling to the first point of attachment in the house from
the
well, by a registered pump installer registered under part 127
of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.12701 to 333.12771.
(k)
The installation, maintenance, or servicing of burglar
alarm
systems within security alarm
systems in a building or
structure. As used in this subdivision, "security alarm system"
means that term as defined in section 6(2)(b)(iii).
(l) The installation, maintenance, or servicing of listed
residential and commercial lawn irrigation equipment, except any
permanent wired connections exceeding 30 volts.
(m) The installation, maintenance, or servicing of listed
landscape lighting systems and equipment, except any permanent
wired connections exceeding 30 volts.
(n) The installation, alteration, maintenance, or repair of
electric signs and related wiring by an unlicensed individual under
the direct supervision of a licensed sign specialist except that
the ratio of unlicensed individuals engaged in this activity shall
not exceed 2 unlicensed individuals to 1 licensed sign specialist.
An enforcing agency shall enforce this ratio on a jobsite basis.
(o) The construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and
renovation of telecommunications equipment and related systems by a
person ,
firm, or corporation that is primarily engaged in the
telecommunications and related information systems industry. This
exemption does not include the construction, installation,
maintenance,
repair, and or renovation of a fire alarm system.
