Arizona · Electrical licensing · official-source guide
Arizona licenses electrical contracting through the Arizona Registrar of Contractors in Phoenix, one agency covering every trade. The license goes to the business, not the electrician: Arizona issues no journeyman or master card. Electrical work runs under classifications C-11 commercial, R-11 residential, CR-11 dual and A-17 transmission lines, each backed by a named qualifying party with four years experience.
Verified against agency sources on 2026-09-12. Rules and fees change; confirm with the named authority before relying on this guide.
Arizona licenses electrical contracting at state level through the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. The agency gives its address on its own site as 1700 W. Washington St., Ste. 105, Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2812, with mail at P.O. Box 18244, Phoenix, Arizona 85005-8244, and publishes at azroc.gov and roc.az.gov. This is one agency for every trade. Arizona has no separate electrical board and no separate plumbing board. The Registrar licenses contractors across every classification from the same statute, A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 10. The more important point is what Arizona does not license. There is no state journeyman electrician license and no state master electrician license. A.R.S. 32-1102 classifies the contracting business, not the tradesman, into general and specialty categories across commercial, residential and dual work. A.R.S. 32-1101(5) defines a license as an authorization for the person who is listed on the records maintained by the registrar to act in the capacity of a contractor. The individual does appear, but as a qualifying party rather than as a licensee. A.R.S. 32-1101(8) defines a qualifying party as a person who is responsible for a licensee's actions and conduct performed under the license and who either has an ownership interest in the license or is regularly employed by the licensee. So an electrician in Arizona works under the company's license. The answer to the individual or business question here is business, with a named individual attached. That structure drives everything else on this page, including who takes the exam, whose experience counts and what happens when that person leaves.
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The Registrar publishes a full classification list, and electrical work sits in four places. C-11 Electrical is the commercial specialty class, described as authority to install, alter, and repair any wiring, related electrical material and equipment used in the generating, transmitting, or utilization of electrical energy less than 600 volts. R-11 Electrical is the residential specialty class covering residential electrical system installation and repair. CR-11 Electrical is the dual class, combining the C-11 and R-11 scopes on one license. A-17 Electrical and Transmission Lines is a commercial engineering class covering installation, alteration and repair of transmission lines on public right-of-ways, including erection of poles, guying systems, tower line erection, cellular and communication towers and street lighting. Low voltage is separate. C-67, R-67 and CR-67 cover Low Voltage Communication Systems, described as alarms, phone, sound and video systems and low voltage lighting. Picking the wrong one is a real risk in Arizona because A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(13) makes it grounds for discipline to knowingly enter into a contract with a contractor for work requiring a license with a person who is not duly licensed in the required classification. That cuts both ways: the general who hires you and you who hire a sub. The 600 volt ceiling in the C-11 scope is the boundary most often misread. Work above it belongs in A-17 territory. If your company sells both houses and commercial interiors, CR-11 avoids holding two licenses and two bonds, which matters because the Registrar's fee schedule prices dual licenses separately from either single class.
The license belongs to the entity, but the experience belongs to a person. A.R.S. 32-1122(E)(1) requires that before a license is issued the qualifying party must have a minimum of four years practical or management trade experience, at least two of which must have been within the last ten years, dealing specifically with the type of construction, or its equivalent, for which the applicant is applying. Technical training in an accredited college or university, or in a manufacturer's accredited training program, may be substituted for a portion of that experience, but in no case may credited technical training exceed two years of the required four. The Registrar may reduce the four year requirement where custom and usage in the craft makes it excessive, and must waive the work experience documentation and verification where records show the qualifying party is currently or has previously been a qualifying party for a licensee in this state in the same classification. The Registrar describes the qualifying party on its own licensing page as a person who is regularly employed by the licensee and is actively engaged in the classification of work. A.R.S. 32-1101(8) adds the alternative of an ownership interest in the license. This is the structural weak point of an Arizona electrical company. If the qualifying party leaves and is not replaced, the credential behind the license goes with them. Plan for it the way you would plan for the loss of a key employee, because A.R.S. 32-1122(B)(4) requires the licensee to notify the Registrar of any change in the required information within thirty days after the change occurs.
Arizona runs two examinations and sets the bar in rule rather than in policy. A.A.C. R4-9-106 requires a Statutes and Rules Examination addressing the building, safety, health, and lien laws of the state, and a Trade Examination assessing knowledge and understanding of construction plans and specifications. The minimum passing grade is 70%. Retesting is allowed 30 days after a first or second failure and 90 days after any subsequent failure, and examinations are offered at least once a week. A.R.S. 32-1122(E)(2) adds a shelf life: the written examination must have been taken not more than two years before application. A.R.S. 32-1122(F) requires the Registrar to maintain multiple versions of examinations for each type of license that requires one. A.R.S. 32-1122(A)(4) charges the Registrar with establishing written examinations to protect the health and safety of the public. The Registrar's own licensing page states the qualifying party must score 70% or better on both the Arizona Statutes and Rules Exam and the trade specific exam, and notes that the requirement is waivable under specific conditions. Exam fees are published separately from license fees. The Registrar's fee page lists the AZ Statutes and Rules exam at $54 and the trade specific exam at $66. A NASCLA commercial exam is $106 plus a $25 application fee, and a NASCLA electrical exam is $116. The NASCLA route is worth pricing because that examination is accepted in more than one state, so an electrical contractor planning multi-state work can pay once at $116 rather than repeating a trade exam per jurisdiction.
Arizona licenses run two years, and the Registrar prints the full schedule. For an initial two year license, Specialty Commercial, which is where C-11 sits, costs $100 application plus $480 license plus $0 recovery fund, totalling $580. Specialty Residential, where R-11 sits, costs $80 plus $270 plus $370, totalling $720. Specialty Dual, where CR-11 sits, costs $100 plus $380 plus $370, totalling $850. For comparison, General Commercial is $200 plus $580 plus $0, totalling $780, General Residential is $180 plus $320 plus $370, totalling $870, and General Dual is $200 plus $480 plus $370, totalling $1,050. Renewals drop the application fee. Specialty Commercial renews at $480. Specialty Residential renews at $270 license plus $270 recovery, totalling $540. Specialty Dual renews at $380 plus $270, totalling $650. Note the pattern an electrical contractor should read carefully: residential work carries the recovery fund assessment and commercial work does not, which is why the residential specialty license costs more than the commercial one despite covering smaller jobs. The statutory ceilings behind these numbers sit in A.R.S. 32-1126(A), which caps an original biennial specialty residential license at not more than $350 and a specialty commercial license at not more than $1,000, with renewal caps of $270 and $900. A.R.S. 32-1126(D) sets the penalty for failing to apply for renewal within the prescribed time at $50. A.R.S. 32-1126(G) caps the residential recovery fund assessment at not more than $600 during the biennial license period.
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Arizona does not use one bond amount. A.R.S. 32-1152(B) requires a surety bond or cash deposit in amounts fixed by the Registrar after giving due consideration to the volume of work and the classification, and the Registrar publishes the resulting schedule. For a residential specialty contractor, which is R-11, the bond is $4,250 where estimated annual volume is less than $375,000, and $7,500 at $375,000 or more. For a commercial specialty contractor, which is C-11, the bond is $2,500 at $150,000 or less, $7,000 over $150,000 to $500,000, $17,500 over $500,000 to $1 million, $25,000 over $1 million to $5 million, $37,500 over $5 million to $10 million, and $50,000 over $10 million. Dual license bond amounts are calculated by combining the amount required for residential and commercial. For scale, a commercial general contractor runs $5,000 at the bottom and $100,000 above $10 million. The bond mechanics matter as much as the number. The Registrar states that bonds must be continuous with no termination date, that an insurer may cancel with 30 days notice to both the principal and the Registrar, and that bond amounts may increase at any time but can only decrease during renewal periods. A.R.S. 32-1152(F) backs that up: the license is suspended by operation of law on the date the bond is cancelled unless a replacement bond or cash deposit is on file. A.R.S. 32-1152(A) also bars renewal unless the bond or cash deposit is in full force and effect.
Any electrical contractor doing residential work in Arizona pays into a fund or posts a very large bond, and the choice is statutory. A.R.S. 32-1152(C) requires dual licensed and residential contractors to either furnish an additional surety bond or cash deposit in the amount of $200,000 solely for actual damages suffered by claimants as described in A.R.S. 32-1132, or participate in the residential contractors' recovery fund and pay the assessment prescribed by A.R.S. 32-1126(G). In practice almost everyone takes the fund, which is why the Registrar's fee schedule shows a $370 recovery line on every initial residential and dual license and a $270 recovery line on every residential and dual renewal. A.R.S. 32-1132(A) establishes the fund for the benefit of claimants damaged by the act, representation, transaction or conduct of a licensed residential contractor in violation of the chapter. Eligibility is narrower than contractors assume. A.R.S. 32-1132(B) limits claims to an individual who owns residential real property damaged by the contractor's failure and who actually occupies or intends to occupy it as a primary residence, plus a limited liability company or revocable living trust in the same posture, a planned community or unit owners association after transfer of control, and a lessee who contracts directly or indirectly and occupies as a primary residence. A.R.S. 32-1132(C) also requires the contractor to have been appropriately licensed at the date the contract was signed, the date of first payment, or the date work first commenced. Investors and landlords are largely outside it.
Arizona does not set a general liability minimum for contractors in Title 32, Chapter 10, and the Registrar's licensing steps do not list a liability certificate. What the statute does require is workers compensation compliance, and it requires it as an attestation on the application itself. A.R.S. 32-1122(B)(1)(i) requires an attestation that the applicant has complied with the statutes and rules governing workers compensation insurance, and where the applicant is required to secure coverage under Title 23, Chapter 6, the attestation must contain the workers compensation insurance policy number or be accompanied by proof of self-insurance. That attestation is not a formality. A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(4) makes failure to comply with the statutes or rules governing social security, workers compensation or unemployment insurance a ground for suspension or revocation. A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(11) adds failure to comply with any safety or labor laws or codes of the federal government, this state or its political subdivisions. So the enforcement route for insurance in Arizona runs through discipline rather than through a licensing minimum. The bond is the financial security the state actually mandates, and it is not insurance. A surety bond pays claimants and then seeks repayment from the contractor. General liability pays on the contractor's behalf. Anyone reading the Arizona bond schedule as proof of coverage has misread it. Carry commercial general liability because your general contractors, property owners and lenders will require it in the contract, not because the Registrar checks for it, and expect their required limits to exceed anything in the statute.
A.R.S. 32-1123.01 directs the Registrar to maintain a system of staggered licensure to distribute the work of licensure throughout the twelve months of the year, and to implement a system for biennial license renewal with proration of renewal fees for that purpose. So your renewal month is your own rather than a statewide date. The same section lets the Registrar grant an exception and allow annual renewal on a written petition by a contractor claiming that the biennial requirement would cause a real and immediate hardship, and A.R.S. 32-1126(B) prices that annual renewal at one-half of the biennial renewal fee. A.R.S. 32-1124(F) allows the Registrar to establish procedures letting a licensee set a common expiration or renewal date for all licenses it holds, with prorated fees, which is worth doing if you carry C-11 and C-67 side by side. A.R.S. 32-1124(E) lets a licensee request a single certificate showing all licenses in good standing. Three ways a license suspends without anyone missing a payment sit in A.R.S. 32-1124(G). The license suspends by operation of law if the licensed entity is dissolved, which the statute defines to include the death of a sole owner, adding or removing a partner, or revocation or dissolution of a corporation or limited liability company. It suspends if the entity lacks authority to do business in this state. And it suspends if the license was obtained or renewed with an insufficient funds check, staying suspended until the Registrar receives good funds. The late renewal penalty is $50 under A.R.S. 32-1126(D).
Arizona's route in from another state runs through a general licensing statute rather than through a trade specific reciprocity agreement. The Registrar's own site quotes A.R.S. 32-4302, which provides that a person shall be granted an occupational or professional license or certificate if the person has been licensed or certified in another state for at least twelve months and meets the other conditions the section sets out. The Registrar's homepage and licensing pages carry this text rather than a list of named reciprocal states, which is a different model from states that publish a fixed list. Inside the ordinary application there are also waivers. A.R.S. 32-1122(E)(2) requires a written examination only if required, and A.R.S. 32-1122(F) requires the Registrar to waive an examination in circumstances the section describes. The Registrar's licensing page states that the 70% exam requirement is waivable under specific conditions. A.R.S. 32-1122(E)(1) also requires the Registrar to waive work experience documentation and verification where the records reflect that the qualifying party is currently, or has previously been, a qualifying party for a licensee in this state in the same classification. That is an internal reciprocity of sorts and it matters for anyone re-entering the Arizona market after a gap. The NASCLA electrical examination is the other practical portability tool, and the Registrar prices it at $116 on its fee page, listed alongside the Arizona specific exams rather than as an alternative to them.
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A.R.S. 32-1151 makes it unlawful to engage in the business of, submit a bid or respond to a request for qualification or a request for proposals for construction services as, act or offer to act in the capacity of, or purport to have the capacity of a contractor without a contractor's license in good standing. Bidding is covered. Offering to act is covered. The section also states that evidence of securing a permit from a governmental agency, or the employment of a person on a construction project, shall be accepted in any court as prima facie evidence of existence of a contract. A.R.S. 32-1164(A) makes acting in the capacity of a contractor without a license a class 1 misdemeanor. Subsection (B) sets the money: for a first offense a contractor shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars, and for a second or any subsequent offense not less than two thousand dollars. Those are floors, not ceilings. Subsection (C) adds that where the court imposes probation it shall order the person to pay in full all transaction privilege or use tax amounts due to the state, to the county in which the offense occurred and to the local municipal government, arising from the acts constituting the offense. A.R.S. 32-1104(A)(4) gives the Registrar and its investigators authority to issue citations to violators. A.R.S. 32-1166 allows a cease and desist order, and A.R.S. 32-1168 lets a county, city or state authority stop or suspend work on a project until the licensing requirements of A.R.S. 32-1151 are met. A revoked license cannot be renewed or reissued for one year under A.R.S. 32-1161(C).
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Arizona's small job exemption is the one every electrical contractor in the state has an opinion about, and the statute is more specific than the folklore. A.R.S. 32-1121(A)(4) exempts a materialman, manufacturer or retailer that furnishes finished products and either does not install them, or installs them where the total value of the sales contract or transaction and the cost of installation does not exceed $1,000, including labor, materials and all other items. Then comes the electrical carve-out. The exemption excludes any electrical fixture or appliance that was designed by the manufacturer, is unaltered, unchanged or unmodified, can be plugged into a common household electrical outlet using a two-pronged or three-pronged electrical connector, or has internal batteries that do not exceed twelve volts, and that does not use any other form of energy including natural gas or propane, or is attached by a nail, screw or other fastening device to the frame or foundation of any residential structure. The materialman must also inform the purchaser that the installation may be performed by a licensed contractor whose name and address the purchaser may request. A.R.S. 32-1121(A)(9) runs a parallel exemption for finished products not fabricated into and not becoming a permanent fixed part of the structure, and expressly kills that exemption where a local building permit is required or the price exceeds $1,000. Read plainly, hard wiring a fixture is not covered by the plug-in carve-out, and permit work is never covered. A.R.S. 32-1121(A)(5) separately exempts owners improving property intended for their own occupancy and not for sale or rent.
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Arizona has the most explicit contractor advertising statute of the three states in this set. A.R.S. 32-1124(B) states the license number must be preceded by the acronym ROC and posted or placed in four places: in a conspicuous place on premises where any work is being performed; on all written bids and estimates submitted by the licensee; on all published advertising, letterheads and other documents used to correspond with customers or potential customers in the conduct of regulated business; and on all broadcast, internet or billboard advertising, unless that advertising includes a website's uniform resource locator that directly links to a website that prominently displays the licensee's name and license number. That fourth clause is the workable one for paid search, radio and billboards. A.R.S. 32-1124(C) sets both the consequence and its limit: a violation is, at the discretion of the registrar, grounds for disciplinary action under A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(12), but it is not grounds for preventing the award of a contract, voiding an awarded contract, or any other claim or defense against the licensee. The same subsection excludes a trade association directory listing distributed solely to members. On wording, say contractor and name the classification. Do not use journeyman or master as a state credential, because Arizona issues neither. A.R.S. 32-1165 makes it a class 1 misdemeanor to advertise the ability to perform any service or contract subject to the registrar's regulation without first obtaining a license, and A.R.S. 32-1101(1) defines advertisement to include business cards and telephone directory display advertisements. Two discipline grounds also bear on marketing: A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(14) covers acting under a license in a name other than as set forth on the license, and A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(15) covers false, misleading or deceptive advertising whereby a member of the public was misled and injured. Match your signage name to the license name.
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Arizona has no single statewide electrical code for general construction. The adoption that does exist at state level is narrow. A.A.C. R4-34-102, the materials incorporated by reference rule for manufactured housing, adopts the National Electrical Code (NEC), 2017 edition, available from the National Fire Protection Association, alongside 2018 editions of the International Building, Residential, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fuel Gas and Energy Conservation codes. That governs factory built and manufactured housing, not a commercial tenant improvement in Phoenix. For ordinary construction the code comes from the city. Phoenix adopted the 2024 Phoenix Building Construction Code by Ordinance G-7397, approved June 18, 2025 and effective August 1, 2025, and that package includes the 2023 NEC. Phoenix has deferred enforcement of NEC 210.8(F) Exception 2 until March 1, 2027. The prior 2018 Phoenix Building Construction Code, Ordinance G-6463, carried the 2017 NEC, so jobs permitted under the older package still run on the older book. Tucson lists the 2023 National Electrical Code as its current edition, effective January 1, 2026, adopted with the 2024 International codes and local amendments. The same Tucson page also states that all permit applications and related submittals received on or after July 1, 2026 must comply with the 2024 International Codes and amendments as adopted by the City of Tucson, and the page does not reconcile the two dates. Ask the permit desk which edition governs your submittal date before you price GFCI, AFCI and service work.
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Arizona pushes license verification down to every permit counter in the state, by statute. A.R.S. 32-1169(A) requires each county, city, other political subdivision or authority of the state that requires a building permit to make each applicant file a signed statement that the applicant is properly licensed to perform the work described in the permit, with the applicant's license number. If the applicant claims exemption from licensing, the statement must contain the basis of the asserted exemption plus the name and license number of any general, mechanical, electrical or plumbing contractor who will be employed on the work. The local issuing authority may require a statement signed by the registrar to verify a claimed exemption. A.R.S. 32-1169(B) makes filing an application containing false or incorrect information about a contractor's license, with the intent to avoid licensing requirements, unsworn falsification under A.R.S. 13-2704. That is the mechanism by which Phoenix and Tucson enforce state licensing without running their own trade license. Phoenix runs permitting through its Planning and Development Department, which publishes the Phoenix Building Construction Code and its amendments. Tucson runs it through Planning and Development Services, which publishes its adopted code list and amendment documents. Neither city issues an electrical journeyman card, so the state license and the ROC number are what the counter checks. Keep the license number, the entity name on the license and the qualifying party record consistent across every permit application, because a mismatch at the counter reads as a license problem rather than a clerical one.
The Registrar leads its own homepage with the instruction: Anyone can pretend to be a contractor. Check the license. It runs a public Contractor Search, which its FAQ points customers to both for verifying license status and for finding a contractor's bond information. The search lives on the agency's licensing portal at azroc.my.site.com/AZRoc/s/contractor-search. Behind the search sits a statutory recordkeeping duty. A.R.S. 32-1104(A)(2) requires the Registrar to maintain a complete indexed record of all applications and licenses issued, renewed, terminated, cancelled, revoked or suspended, including timely notation of any judicial disposition on appeal, for a period of not less than seven years. A.R.S. 32-1104(A)(3) requires the Registrar to furnish a certified copy of any license, or an affidavit that no license exists or that one has been cancelled or suspended, and certified copies of license bonds or cash deposit certificates, on receipt of the prescribed fee. That paragraph prices those certifications at $10 per hour with a $10 minimum, and those documents are received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts stated. For a contractor, three things follow. Search your own entity and confirm the exact name, classification and status a customer will see. Print the ROC number with the acronym on estimates, bids and the website your advertising points to, as A.R.S. 32-1124(B) requires. And keep the bond current, because a cancelled bond suspends the license by operation of law and that shows on the public record.
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These are common details other guides publish about Arizona, but we could not verify them from the agency source. Confirm them directly before relying on them.
Arizona licenses electrical contracting, not electricians. The Arizona Registrar of Contractors issues C-11 Electrical, R-11 Electrical, CR-11 Electrical and A-17 Electrical and Transmission Lines licenses to the contracting business. There is no state journeyman or master electrician license. A.R.S. 32-1102 classifies the contracting business rather than the tradesman.
The business. A.R.S. 32-1101(5) defines a license as authorization for the person listed on the Registrar's records to act as a contractor, and A.R.S. 32-1101(8) defines the qualifying party as a person responsible for the licensee's conduct who either owns an interest in the license or is regularly employed by the licensee.
C-11 Electrical covers commercial wiring under 600 volts. R-11 Electrical covers residential electrical systems. CR-11 Electrical is the dual class combining both. A-17 covers transmission lines, poles, towers and street lighting on public right-of-ways. C-67, R-67 and CR-67 cover low voltage communication systems separately.
A.R.S. 32-1122(E)(1) requires the qualifying party to have four years practical or management trade experience, at least two of them within the last ten years, dealing specifically with the type of construction applied for. Technical training at an accredited college or in a manufacturer's accredited program may replace up to two of the four years.
A Specialty Commercial license such as C-11 costs $100 application plus $480 license, totalling $580 for two years, and renews at $480. Specialty Residential such as R-11 costs $80 plus $270 plus a $370 recovery fund assessment, totalling $720, and renews at $540. Specialty Dual such as CR-11 totals $850 initially.
It depends on class and volume. A commercial specialty contractor posts $2,500 at $150,000 or less annual volume, rising through $7,000, $17,500, $25,000 and $37,500 to $50,000 above $10 million. A residential specialty contractor posts $4,250 below $375,000 and $7,500 at or above it. Dual bonds combine the two.
Title 32, Chapter 10 sets no general liability minimum and the Registrar's licensing steps do not list a liability certificate. A.R.S. 32-1122(B)(1)(i) does require a workers compensation attestation with the policy number or proof of self-insurance, and A.R.S. 32-1154(A)(4) makes non-compliance a ground for suspension or revocation.
Every two years. A.R.S. 32-1123.01 requires staggered licensure spread across the twelve months of the year and a biennial renewal system with prorated fees. An annual renewal at half the biennial fee is available on a written hardship petition under A.R.S. 32-1123.01(C) and A.R.S. 32-1126(B). Late renewal carries a $50 penalty.
The Registrar's published licensing steps run qualifying party, exams, background checks, entity formation, bond, fees, identification and application, with no continuing education step, and its fee schedule carries no continuing education fee. No continuing education rule for contractors was located in A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 10.
A.R.S. 32-1164(A) makes acting as a contractor without a license a class 1 misdemeanor, with a fine of not less than one thousand dollars for a first offence and not less than two thousand dollars for a second or subsequent one. A.R.S. 32-1165 separately makes a crime of advertising the ability to perform regulated work without a license.
A.R.S. 32-1124(B) requires the number, preceded by ROC, in a conspicuous place on premises where work is performed, on all written bids and estimates, on all published advertising, letterheads and customer correspondence, and on all broadcast, internet or billboard advertising unless the ad links directly to a website prominently displaying your name and number.
There is no single statewide edition for general construction. A.A.C. R4-34-102 adopts the 2017 NEC for manufactured housing. Phoenix enforces the 2023 NEC under the 2024 Phoenix Building Construction Code, Ordinance G-7397, effective August 1, 2025. Tucson lists the 2023 NEC effective January 1, 2026. Ask the permit desk which edition governs.
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