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Section 326.01

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326.01 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Words, terms and phrases. For the purpose of this chapter, the terms defined
in this section have the meanings ascribed to them.
    Subd. 2. Class A master electrician. "Class A master electrician" means an individual
having the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to perform
and supervise any electrical work, and who is licensed as a Class A master electrician by the
commissioner.
    Subd. 3. Class A journeyman electrician. "Class A journeyman electrician" means an
individual having the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to
perform and supervise any electrical work except for planning or laying out of electrical work,
and who is licensed as a Class A journeyman electrician by the commissioner.
    Subd. 4.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 5 s 33; art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 4a. Elevator constructor. "Elevator constructor" means an individual having the
necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to wire for, install,
maintain, and repair electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment for elevators and escalators and
who is licensed as an elevator constructor by the commissioner.
    Subd. 4b. Elevator contractor. "Elevator contractor" means a licensed contractor whose
responsible licensed individual is a licensed master elevator constructor. An elevator contractor
license does not itself qualify its holder to perform or supervise the electrical or elevator work
authorized by holding any other personal license issued by the commissioner.
    Subd. 4c. Lineman. "Lineman" means an individual having the necessary qualifications,
training, experience, and technical knowledge to construct and maintain transmission and
distribution systems that are or will be owned or leased by an electrical utility, and who is licensed
as a lineman by the commissioner.
    Subd. 4d. Maintenance electrician. "Maintenance electrician" means an individual having
the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly maintain
and repair electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment, who is licensed as a maintenance
electrician by the commissioner or who is exempt from licensing by sections 326.241 to 326.248.
    Subd. 4e. Master elevator constructor. "Master elevator constructor" means an individual
having the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly
plan, lay out, and supervise the installation, maintenance, and repair of wiring, apparatus, and
equipment for elevators and escalators and who is licensed as a master elevator constructor
by the commissioner.
    Subd. 5. Contractor. "Contractor" means a person who performs or offers to perform
any electrical work, with or without compensation, who is licensed as a contractor by the
commissioner. A contractor's license does not of itself qualify its holder to perform or supervise
the electrical work authorized by holding any class of electrician's or other personal electrical
license. Contractor includes electrical contractors and technology system contractors.
    Subd. 6. Class B master electrician. "Class B master electrician" means an individual
having the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to perform and
supervise any electrical work for single phase systems of not over 200 ampere capacity for light,
heat, power, and other purposes on any farm or in any single family dwelling located in any town
or municipality which has a population of less than 2,500 inhabitants, and who is licensed as a
Class B master electrician by the commissioner.
    Subd. 6a. Class B journeyman electrician. "Class B journeyman electrician" means an
individual having the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge
to install, alter, repair, and supervise the installing, altering, or repairing of electrical wiring,
apparatus, and equipment for single phase systems of not more than 200 ampere capacity for light,
heat, power, and other purposes on any farm or in any single family dwelling located in any town
or municipality which has a population of less than 2,500 inhabitants, and who is licensed as a
Class B journeyman electrician by the commissioner.
    Subd. 6b. Class A installer. "Class A installer" means an individual who has the necessary
qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly lay out and install
electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment for major electrical home appliances and such
other electrical equipment as is determined by the commissioner pursuant to section 326.242,
subdivision 3
, on the load side of the main service on farmsteads or in any town or municipality
with less than 1,500 inhabitants, which is not contiguous to a city of the first class and does not
contain an established business of a master electrician, and who is licensed as a Class A installer
by the commissioner.
    Subd. 6c. Class B installer. "Class B installer" means an individual who has the necessary
qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly lay out and install
electrical wiring, apparatus, and equipment on center pivot irrigation booms on the load side
of the main service on farmsteads, and install other electrical equipment determined by the
commissioner, and who is licensed as a Class B installer by the commissioner.
    Subd. 6d.[Repealed, 2003 c 58 s 8]
    Subd. 6e. Owner. An owner is an individual who physically performs electrical work on
premises the individual owns and actually occupies as a residence or owns and will occupy as a
residence upon completion of its construction.
    Subd. 6f. Electrical work. "Electrical work" means the installing, altering, repairing,
planning, or laying out of electrical wiring, apparatus, or equipment for electrical light, heat,
power, technology circuits or systems, or other purposes. The installing, altering, repairing,
planning, or laying out of electrical wiring, apparatus, or equipment for electrical light, heat,
power, technology circuits or systems, or other purposes includes, but is not limited to, the
performance of any work regulated by the standards referred to in section 326.243.
    Subd. 6g. Direct supervision. "Direct supervision" means:
    (1) an unlicensed individual is being supervised by an individual licensed to perform the
electrical work being supervised;
    (2) during the entire working day of the unlicensed individual, the licensed individual is
physically present at the location where the unlicensed individual is performing electrical work
and immediately available to the unlicensed individual;
    (3) the licensed individual is physically present and immediately available to the unlicensed
individual at all times for assistance and direction;
    (4) electronic supervision does not meet the requirement of physically present and
immediately available;
    (5) the licensed individual shall review the electrical work performed by the unlicensed
individual before the electrical work is operated; and
    (6) the licensed individual is able to and does determine that all electrical work performed by
the unlicensed individual is performed in compliance with section 326.243.
    The licensed individual is responsible for the compliance with section 326.243 of all
electrical work performed by the unlicensed individual.
    Subd. 6h.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 6i. Demarcation. "Demarcation" means listed equipment as identified in Minnesota
Rules, part 3800.3619, such as a transformer, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), battery, control
panel, or other device that isolates technology circuits or systems from nontechnology circuits or
systems, including plug or cord and plug connection.
    Subd. 6j. Residential dwelling. A "residential dwelling" is a single dwelling unit that
is contained in a one-family, two-family, or multifamily dwelling as defined in the National
Electrical Code pursuant to section 326.243. A residential dwelling includes a garage and
accessory building that can only be used by the residents of the single dwelling unit.
    Subd. 6k. Power limited technician. "Power limited technician" means an individual having
the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge to install, alter,
repair, plan, lay out, and supervise the installing, altering, and repairing of electrical wiring,
apparatus, and equipment for technology circuits or systems, and who is licensed as a power
limited technician by the commissioner.
    Subd. 6l. Technology circuits or systems. "Technology circuits or systems" means class 2
or class 3 circuits or systems for, but not limited to, remote control, signaling, control, alarm,
and audio signal, including associated components as covered by the National Electrical Code,
articles 640, 645, 650, 725, 760, 770, and 780, and which are isolated from circuits or systems
other than class 2 or class 3 by a demarcation and are not process control circuits or systems;
antenna and communication circuits or systems as covered by chapter 8 of the National Electrical
Code; and circuitry and equipment for indoor lighting and outdoor landscape lighting systems
that are supplied by the secondary circuit of an isolating power supply operating at 30 volts or
less as covered by the National Electrical Code, article 411. The planning, laying out, installing,
altering, and repairing of technology circuits or systems must be performed in accordance with
the applicable requirements of the National Electrical Code pursuant to section 326.243.
    Subd. 6m. Process control circuits or systems. "Process control circuits or systems" are
circuits or systems, regardless of electrical classification, that are integrated with a manufacturing,
mining, energy, finishing, conveyance of equipment or product, material handling or packaging
process that makes or assembles, or similar process. Process control systems does not include
premises network and communication systems whose purpose or function is not dedicated to
process control circuits or systems.
    Subd. 7. Journeyman plumber. A "journeyman plumber" is an individual, other than a
master plumber, who, as a principal occupation, is engaged as an employee of, or is otherwise
working under the direction of, a master plumber in the practical installation of plumbing.
    Subd. 8. Master plumber. A "master plumber" is an individual who is skilled in the
planning, superintending, and the practical installation of plumbing, who is otherwise lawfully
qualified to contract for plumbing and installations and to conduct the business of plumbing and
who is familiar with the laws and rules governing the same.
    Subd. 9.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 6 s 16]
    Subd. 10.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 11.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 12.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 13.[Repealed, 2007 c 140 art 13 s 3]
    Subd. 14. Person. The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, association, joint
stock company, trust, or corporation.
    Subd. 15. Distributor. The term "distributor" includes any person who engages, or contracts
to engage, in the distribution of motion picture films and is a resident of, or legally authorized to
do business in, this state.
    Subd. 16. Exhibitor. The term "exhibitor" includes any person who engages, or contracts
to engage, in the exhibition of motion picture films and is a resident of, or legally authorized to
do business in, this state.
    Subd. 17. License. The term "license" includes the offering, intending or making of a license
agreement, contract, or any type of agreement whereby a film, the distribution of which is
controlled by one of the parties is to be supplied to and exhibited in a theatre owned, controlled,
or operated by the other party.
    Subd. 18. Feature motion picture film. The term "feature motion picture film" means all
motion pictures, whether copyrighted or uncopyrighted, including positive and negative prints
and copies or reproductions of such prints, which films contain photoplays or other subjects and
are produced for public exhibition. The term shall not include films commonly known as short
subjects, newsreels, trailers, serials, reissues, foreign, and western pictures, and road shows.
    Subd. 19. Exhibition season. The term "exhibition season" means a period of 12 months
as may be selected by the producer-distributor, but there shall be no lapse of time between the
termination of one season and the beginning of the next.
    Subd. 20.[Repealed, 1992 c 464 art 1 s 19]
    Subd. 21.[Repealed, 1989 c 209 art 1 s 33]
History: (5872, 5887, 5887-23, 5887-30, 5887-30e) 1907 c 457 s 8; 1913 c 554 s 1; 1933 c
349 s 5; 1937 c 367 s 1,6; 1937 c 370 s 4; 1941 c 460 s 1; 1943 c 474 s 1; 1947 c 253 s 1; 1957 c
907 s 1-3; 1967 c 602 s 10-16; 1979 c 121 s 1; 1985 c 73 s 1-4; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1Sp1985 c 6 s 2;
1986 c 373 s 1,2; 1986 c 402 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 289 s 1-9; 2002 c 328 s 1-7; 2003 c 58 s
1; 2007 c 135 art 6 s 1; 2007 c 140 art 5 s 1-18; art 6 s 2,3

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