Indiana Electrician License Guide

State construction licensing stops at plumbing

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Indiana's business owner's guide lists electrical contractors with general contractors, HVAC contractors, and plumbing contractors as ways the contractor title is used. The next sentence says the only construction contractors licensed by the State of Indiana are plumbers.

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The same guide says many of the other specific areas require local licensing which vary by city and county. Read that as a state boundary: a city or county rule is not the same thing as a license issued for the whole state.

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What the Professional Licensing Agency lists

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The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency professions page places Plumbing between Physicians and Podiatric Medicine.

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The profession names on that page run from Accountancy through Veterinary Medicine and include Plumbing. They do not include an electrician profession or an electrical contractor profession. This page does not turn that list into a finding about a city license.

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What the rules table lists

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The Department of Homeland Security rules table lists 675 IAC 17-1.8, the Indiana Electrical Code, 2009 Edition, on the row marked Currently in Effect, with an effective date of 8/26/2009. That row names NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2008 Edition, first printing, as the reference adopted in the row.

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That table is a code adoption record. It does not state an examination vendor, a question count, a time limit, a passing score, or a license fee, and it does not say which city examination uses that edition.

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Lafayette requires a local electrical license

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The City of Lafayette says you must hold a valid electrical license, or be an electrical journeyman or trainee while employed or supervised by a licensed electrician, to perform any installation, maintenance, alteration, or repair on any electrical equipment within the city.

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For a full list of requirements, including testing and reciprocity, the city page points to Chapter 13.06.020 of the Municipal Code. This guide does not restate testing or reciprocity terms that the page leaves in that chapter.

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Commercial and residential credentials

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Lafayette says it issues commercial electrical licenses. It treats multifamily units of four or more as commercial. An electrician licensed to perform commercial or industrial electrical work is also licensed to perform residential electrical work.

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The city describes residential work as housing units used or designed as living units, including multifamily housing, and it excludes multifamily buildings of four or more units because it treats those as commercial.

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Applicants for a commercial or industrial electrical contractor license must present proof of insurance and one of three paths: 10 or more years of experience in the practice of electrical construction, at least 6 years of that experience plus a diploma from a four year electrical engineering college or university, or passage of the required examination for the license sought.

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Applicants for a residential electrical contractor license must present proof of insurance and one of three paths on the residential section of the same page: 10 or more years of experience in the practice of electrical construction, at least 6 years of that experience plus a diploma from a four year electrical engineering college or university, or passage of the required examination for the license sought.

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Applicants for a commercial or industrial electrician license must present proof of insurance and either 5 or more years of experience in the practice of electrical construction with certification from a commercial or industrial contractor license holder, or passage of the required examination.

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Applicants for a residential electrician license must present proof of insurance and either 4 or more years of experience in the practice of electrical construction with certification from a residential contractor license holder, or passage of the required examination.

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The page says proof of general liability insurance in the minimum amount of $250,000.00 is a requirement for obtaining and renewing an electrical license.

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Published Lafayette license fees

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The city page lists a commercial and industrial electrical contractor license at $200.00 with an annual renewal fee of $100.00, a residential electrical contractor license at $150.00 with an annual renewal fee of $75.00, a commercial and industrial electrician license at $50.00 with an annual renewal fee of $20.00, and a residential electrician license at $25.00 with an annual renewal fee of $15.00. It also lists a late renewal fee of $25.00.

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Keep city rules separate from the state pages

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These Lafayette amounts and paths are City of Lafayette rules. They are not a statewide journeyman license. The state pages cited above do not state another city's hours, fees, or examination format.

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