36-16-17. Licenses--Biennial fees.
The State Electrical Commission shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, to establish and collect biennial fees for licenses. The class of electricians who may be licensed under this chapter, and biennial fees required to be paid for the license, may not exceed the following:
(1)Electrical contractor: biennial license fee, two hundred dollars;
(2)Journeyman electrician: biennial license fee, eighty dollars;
(3)Class B electrician: biennial license fee, two hundred dollars;
(4)Electrical inspector: biennial license fee, one hundred twenty dollars;
(5)Inactive Class B electrician, inactive electrical contractor, inactive 501(d) electrician, or inactive journeyman electrician: biennial license fee, eighty dollars;
(6)Maintenance electrician: biennial license fee, one hundred twenty dollars;
(7)501(d) electrician; biennial license fee, one hundred twenty dollars.
Before a license is granted to any applicant and for the biennial renewal of such license the applicant shall pay to the treasurer the fee required for the class of license applied for.
Source: SL 1963, ch 216, §§7, 13; SL 1986, ch 302, §26; SL 1986, ch 315, §7; SL 1987, ch 279, §2; SL 1991, ch 308, §§3, 6; SL 1997, ch 219, §1; SL 2009, ch 183, §4; SL 2021, ch 178, § 2.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 36 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 16 - Electricians And Electrical Contractors
Section 36-16-2 - Definition of terms.
Section 36-16-3 - State Electrical Commission--Number and terms of members.
Section 36-16-4 - Commission member involved in education of electrical engineers or electricians.
Section 36-16-4.1 - Lay members of commission--Appointment and term of office.
Section 36-16-5 - Oath of office--Tenure.
Section 36-16-6 - Quorum of commission.
Section 36-16-7 - Officers of commission--Expenses of members.
Section 36-16-8 - Meetings of commission--Notice.
Section 36-16-9 - Electrical commission fund--Collections and disbursements.
Section 36-16-10 - Expense of commission.
Section 36-16-12 - Seal of commission--Scope of rules.
Section 36-16-13 - License required--Examination--Application--Fees.
Section 36-16-13.2 - Issuance of license to public entities.
Section 36-16-16 - Persons exempt from license requirement.
Section 36-16-17 - Licenses--Biennial fees.
Section 36-16-19 - Experience required for contractor's license.
Section 36-16-21 - Apprentice registration--Fee--Supervision of work.
Section 36-16-22 - Evidence of experience required for license--Partnership or corporate license.
Section 36-16-23 - Reciprocal licenses to electricians from other states.
Section 36-16-26 - Contractor's license terminated on death--Continuation of business.
Section 36-16-28 - Report to commission of electrical work done.
Section 36-16-29 - State commission inspectors and inspections--Report of inspection.
Section 36-16-30 - Installation inspection fees--Number of inspections--Promulgation of rules.
Section 36-16-32 - Correction of condemned installation required before reconnection.
Section 36-16-33 - Grounds for refusal to issue license, revocation, or suspension.
Section 36-16-34 - Failure to register, obtain license or report wiring as misdemeanor.
Section 36-16-34.1 - Action for injunction--Election of remedies.
Section 36-16-35 - More stringent local and utility requirements permitted.
Section 36-16-37 - Severability of provisions.
Section 36-16-38 - Promulgation of rules for reinstatement of expired license.