The Vermont Statutes Online
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Title 26 : Professions and Occupations
Chapter 015 : Electricians and Electrical Installations
Subchapter 003 : Licensing Electricians
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 910)-
§ 910. License not required
A license shall not be required for the following types of work:
(1) Any electrical work, including construction, installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of electrical installations in, on, or about equipment or premises, that are owned or leased by the operator of any industrial or manufacturing plant, if the work is done under the supervision of an electrical engineer or master electrician in the employ of the operator.
(2) Installation in laboratories of exposed electrical wiring for experimental purposes only.
(3) Any electrical work by an owner or his or her regular employees in the owner’s freestanding single unit residence, in outbuildings accessory to such freestanding single unit residence, or any structure on owner-occupied farms.
(4) Electrical installations performed as a part of a training project of a vocational school or other educational institution. However, the installation shall be inspected if the building in which the installation is made is to be used as a “complex structure”.
(5) Electrical work performed by an electrician’s helper under the direct supervision of a person who holds an appropriate license issued under this chapter.
(6) Any electrical work in a building used for dwelling or residential purposes that contains no more than two dwelling units.
(7) Installation of solar electric modules and racking on complex structures to the point of connection to field-fabricated wiring and erection of net metered wind turbines. (Added 1969, No. 284 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; amended 1973, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 11, 1974; 1987, No. 274 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; 2009, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), § 18d, eff. June 4, 2010.)
