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Minnesota Electrical Act: Minnesota Statutes Sections 3266.31 to 3268.399; Minnesota Statutes Sections <br />3266.081 to 3266.399: Enforcement; Minnesota Rules Chapters 3800 and 3801 <br />Page 5 of 57 <br />Subd. 11. Class B installer. "Class B installer" means an individual who has the necessary qualifications, <br />training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly layout and install electrical wiring, apparatus, and <br />equipment on center pivot irrigation booms on the load side of the main service on farmsteads, and install <br />other electrical equipment determined by the commissioner, and who is licensed as a Class 6 installer by the <br />commissioner. <br />Subd. 12. Class B joumeyman. electrician. "Class B joumeyman electrician" means an individual having the <br />necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to install, alter, repair, and supervise <br />the installing, altering, or repairing of electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment for single phase systems of <br />not more than 200 ampere capacity for light, heat, power, and other purposes on any-farm or in any single <br />family dwelling located in any town or municipality which has a population of less than 2,500 inhabitants, and <br />who is licensed as a Class 6 journeyman electrician by the commissioner. <br />Subd. 13. Class B master electrician. "Class B master electrician" means an individual having the necessary <br />quaycations, training, experience, and technical knowledge to perform and supervise any electrical work for <br />single phase systems of not over 200 ampere capacity for fight, heat, power, and other purposes on any farm <br />or in any single family dwelling located in any town or municipality which has a population of less than 2,500 <br />inhabitants, and who is licensed as a Class B master electrician by the commissioner. <br />Subd. 14. Contractor. "Contractor" means a person who performs or offers to perform any electrical work, with <br />or without compensation, who is licensed as a contractor by the commissioner. A contractor's license does not <br />of itself qualify its holder to perform or supervise the electrical work authorized by holding any class of <br />electrician's or other personal license. Contractor includes electrical contractors and technology system <br />contractors. <br />Subd. 15. Demarcation. "Demarcation" means listed equipment as ident~ed in Minnesota Rules, part <br />3800.3619, such as a transformer, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), battery, control panel, or other device <br />that isolates technology circuits or systems from nontechnology circuits or systems, .including plug or cord and <br />plug connection. <br />Subd. 16. Direct supervision. "Direct supervision" means: <br />{1} an unlicensed individual is being supervised by an individual licensed to perform the electrical work being <br />supervised; <br />{2) during the entire working day of the unlicensed individual, the licensed individual is physically present at the <br />location where the unlicensed individual is performing electrical work and immediately available to the <br />unlicensed individual; <br />(3) the licensed individual is physically present and immediately available to the unlicensed individual at all <br />times far assistance and direction; <br />(4) electronic supervision does not meet the requirement of physically present and immediately available; <br />(5) the licensed individual shall review the electrical work performed by the unlicensed individual before the <br />electrical work is operated; and <br />{6) the licensed individual is able to and does determine that all electrical work performed by the unlicensed <br />individual is performed in compliance with section 3266.35. The licensed individual is responsible #or the <br />compliance with section 3268.35 of alE electrical work performed by the unlicensed individual. <br />Subd. 17. Electrical work. "Electrical work" means the installing, altering, repairing, planning, or laying out of <br />electrical wiring, apparatus, or equipment for electrical light, heat, power, technology circuits or systems, or <br />other purposes. The installing, altering, repairing, planning, or laying out of electrical wiring, apparatus, or <br />equipment for electrical lighf, hea#, power, technology circuits or systems, or other purposes includes, but is not <br />limited to, the performance of any work regulated by the standards referred to in section 326B.35. <br />