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Georgia licenses electrical contracting at state level through the Georgia State Board of Electrical Contractors, a sub-board of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board at the Secretary of State. The board licenses contractors, not electricians, so the license sits on one qualified person. Class I is capped at single-phase installations not exceeding 200 amperes; Class II is unrestricted.
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Electrical contracting in Georgia is licensed by the state, not by the city or the county. The licensing authority is the Georgia State Board of Electrical Contractors, one of five sub-boards of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board inside the Office of Secretary of State. The Secretary of State's licensing index lists it under Building and Contractors alongside Conditioned Air Contractors, Low Voltage Contractors, Plumbers, Residential and General Contractors, and Utility Contractors. Two names describe the same body, and you will meet both. The web pages call it the Georgia State Board of Electrical Contractors. The board rules call it the Division of Electrical Contractors, and that is the name that appears in Rule 121-4-.05, which is the rule that can refuse your renewal. The board's mailing address is 214 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334. The full State Construction Industry Licensing Board meets twice a year, while each sub-board sets its own meeting dates. The electrical sub-board seats five industry members, and the full board carries two consumer members who are not connected with the construction industry. The rules that govern you sit in Department 121 of the Georgia Rules and Regulations. Chapter 121-2 covers application and reciprocity, Chapter 121-3 covers licensure by trade, Chapter 121-4 covers issuance, renewal and continuing education, Chapter 121-5 covers discipline, and Chapter 121-6 covers business registration. The whole department was renumbered in a filing dated February 27, 2025, effective March 19, 2025, so any rule number you were quoted before that date may now point somewhere else. The underlying statute is O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 14, which the board titles Electrical Contractors, Plumbers, Conditioned Air Contractors, Low-Voltage Contractors, And Utility Contractors.
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Georgia splits the electrical contractor license into two classes, and the dividing line is electrical, not architectural. Contractors who have worked in Georgia plumbing or conditioned air often expect a square footage cap or a tonnage cap. Electrical does not use one. Rule 121-3-.01(1) is one sentence long and it is the sentence that decides what you may bid. Statewide Class I Electrical Contractor licenses are restricted to electrical contracting involving single-phase electrical installations that do not exceed 200 amperes at the service drop or the service lateral. Class II Electrical Contractor licenses are unrestricted. Read the restriction carefully, because it carries two conditions and both must hold. The installation must be single-phase, and it must not exceed 200 amperes measured at the service drop or the service lateral. A three-phase service is outside Class I whatever its ampacity. A single-phase 400 amp residential service is outside Class I even though it is a house. The application forms use different words for the same split. The Secretary of State's how-to guide lists the application types as Electrical Contractor - Restricted and Electrical Contractor - Non-Restricted. Restricted is Class I. Non-Restricted is Class II. Rule 121-3-.01(6) then ties the class to the evidence. Applicants for Class II licenses must document experience with installations in excess of single phase, 200 amperes systems. You cannot document only residential service work and be handed an unrestricted license. Rule 121-3-.01(9) closes the chapter with a line worth remembering when a general contractor asks you to stretch. Nothing in these rules shall be construed to permit the unlicensed practice of Electrical Contracting.
This is the structural fact that separates Georgia from most of its neighbours, and it changes how you staff a job. The board's own FAQ states it without hedging: the Board licenses Electrical Contractors, not electricians. Georgia issues no statewide journeyman electrician license and no statewide master electrician license. There is no state card for the person pulling wire on your crew. So the licence sits on one qualified individual, and that individual carries the work. Rule 121-3-.01(2) describes a person, not a company: to obtain a statewide Class I or Class II Electrical Contractor license, a person must be at least 21 years of age, submit a completed application, meet the experience requirements, obtain a minimum score of seventy on the appropriate examination, and pay the fees required by the board. The practical consequence is that your exposure concentrates. In a state with journeyman licensing, an unlicensed helper working unsupervised is the helper's problem as well as yours. In Georgia the competence requirement is met by you, and the supervision duty follows from Rule 121-6-.01, which requires the qualifying licensee to be engaged in the business on a full-time basis, to provide adequate supervision of and be responsible for the work performed, and to be able to respond in a timely manner to problems while the work is in progress. That rule also blocks a common arrangement. A qualifying licensee may not qualify more than one proprietorship, partnership or corporation at any one time, and is deemed unable to supervise during the hours he or she is working for another employer.
Rule 121-3-.01(4) sets the headline requirement. Applicants for a statewide electrical contractor license must document a minimum of 4 years of primary experience in the electrical field as would be covered by the Georgia Electrical Code or the National Electrical Code. Primary experience is defined narrowly. It means working experience gained through the direct installation of electrical systems and directly related activities of a type covered by the National Electrical Code. The rule explains why it is narrow: the public welfare and overall life safety responsibility require that an electrical contractor have actual in-the-field experience and be competent in all phases of electrical work. Rule 121-3-.01(5) allows up to one year of that four to come from secondary experience or education, credited at fifty percent. The rule gives its own worked example: three years of primary experience and two years of secondary experience meet the four year requirement. Secondary experience includes teaching electrical installation, theory and code as a full-time instructor at a recognised learning centre, inspection of electrical wiring by a full-time municipal or county inspector, electrical engineering design by a registered professional engineer, installation of electrically lighted signs, and work for a licensed electrical contractor with sole responsibility in at least three named business areas such as estimating, project management, scheduling, progress charts, and pay requests. Education counts as well: a two-year academic diploma programme, or a two-year academic certificate programme from a vocational-technical school, each count as two years. Rule 121-3-.01(8) is the alternative route. An applicant who can demonstrate six years of electrical contracting experience to the satisfaction of the division is not required to demonstrate primary experience gained through direct installation. Education is credited at fifty percent within that six, capped at two years, and one reference must come from a licensed architect, professional engineer or electrical engineer.
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The pass mark is fixed in the rule, not in vendor policy. Rule 121-3-.01(2) requires a minimum score of seventy on the appropriate examination. The same seventy applies to the low-voltage examinations under Rule 121-3-.06(3). The board's FAQ names the vendor and the sequence. Once the board approves you to sit for the exam, you receive an Exam Approval Letter with instructions on registering through the testing vendor, PSI. The FAQ states that exam approval letters remain valid for one year, so an approval you sit on expires. References come before the exam, not after. Rule 121-3-.01(3) requires three references on the required form from persons who can attest to the applicant's electrical experience, and at least one of the three must be from a licensed electrical contractor who includes his or her registration number on the form. The FAQ repeats the point in the application checklist. Failing twice triggers a rule that costs time. Rule 121-2-.06(1) states that any applicant for conditioned air contractor, electrical contractor, master plumber or journeyman plumber who takes and fails the examination twice after July 1, 1989 must present satisfactory evidence of completing a board approved review course before being scheduled for a third examination. Fail a third time and no further course is required before later attempts. Rule 121-2-.06(3) sets what counts as a review course. Either a code requirements course conducted by a college, postsecondary technical school or a military service, or a course of a minimum of 6 hours of actual instruction run by an instructor who holds a contractor or master license in the trade, covering exam topics, references, code and calculations, testing skills and study preparation.
The State Construction Industry Licensing Board publishes one fee schedule covering all five trades, and the electrical lines sit in it. The initial application fee for an electrical contractor license, by examination or by reciprocity, restricted or non-restricted, is $30.00. A processing fee of $10.00 was added to all application fees effective March 2022, so budget $40.00 at filing rather than $30.00. The penalties for missing the renewal date are where the money is. Late renewal, filed within 30 days of the license expiration date, is $100.00. A license lapsed more than 30 days but less than three years carries $150.00. A license lapsed three or more years carries $150.00 plus re-examination. Two fees sit outside that schedule and catch people out. The examination seat fee is charged by PSI, the board's testing vendor, and does not appear on the division's schedule, so get the current figure from the vendor when your approval letter arrives. And license verification, which you will need if you ever apply in another state, is charged by the Secretary of State: the board FAQ states that you must also provide $35.00 fee when requesting verification of your Georgia license through your GOALS account. What is not on the schedule is as useful as what is. There is no separate license issuance fee behind the application fee. There is no examination pre-approval fee. And there is no business registration fee for an electrical contracting company. Fees move, and the schedule is republished. The live version is served through the GOALS portal fee schedules page linked from the board's own page.
Georgia renews electrical contractor licenses biennially, and the whole state renews on one date rather than on each licensee's anniversary. Rule 121-4-.02(1) states that licenses and certificates will be renewed biennially by the expiration date as provided by rules of the Joint Secretary, Professional Licensing Boards Division. The operative dates come from the division. The Secretary of State's how-to guide states that license renewal is conducted online and must be completed by June 30 of even-numbered years, with a late renewal period from July 1 to July 31 of even-numbered years. The fee schedule prints the same window: Electrical expires 6/30 even years, late renewal 7/1 to 7/31 even years. The board FAQ describes the same cycle from the other end, saying the renewal period for electrical contractors is April through June of even years. Miss it and the consequence lands immediately. Rule 121-4-.02(2) states that if not renewed by the expiration date, licenses or certificates shall be deemed invalid, and any person holding one shall not be authorized to engage in the business or profession for which licensed. There is no grace period during which you may keep pulling permits. Rule 121-4-.02(3) removes the usual excuse. Neither the failure of the board to send nor the failure of the licensee to receive a renewal form or reminder excuses the failure to renew. Rule 121-4-.02(5) makes reinstatement discretionary, and the division may attach conditions including retaking the licensure examination. Subparagraph (b) makes the three year mark decisive: a reinstatement application filed more than three years after expiration requires the applicant to take and pass the appropriate examination.
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Georgia ties continuing education to the year, then collects it at renewal, which means a two-year renewal carries two annual obligations rather than one lump. Rule 121-4-.05(2) requires any applicant for renewal of an electrical contractor license to complete four hours of continuing education per year. The board's continuing education page states the arithmetic plainly: each licensed electrical contractor must complete 4 hours of approved continuing education per year, a total of 8 hours per renewal. New licensees get relief, and the rule is precise about who. An applicant for renewal who has been initially licensed for less than two years but more than one year must have completed four hours while licensed prior to initial renewal. An applicant licensed for one year or less is not required to complete continuing education prior to initial renewal. Credit is hour for hour under Rule 121-4-.05(3). Approved providers under Rule 121-4-.05(4) are an accredited college or university, a post-secondary institute under the jurisdiction of the Georgia Board of Technical and Adult Education or an equivalent agency of another state or local government, an organization consisting of members of a trade, technical or professional group, a public utility, or an electrical equipment manufacturer. Courses conducted by manufacturers specifically to promote their products are not approved. The board's continuing education page lists the subject areas it expects: codes and standards, business law, insurance and finance, safety and OSHA compliance, materials and installation methods, and theoretical content. Two record-keeping duties bind you. Rule 121-4-.05(5) requires records kept for at least five years listing provider, course title, location and date, outline, hours and proof of completion. And the board's page states that continuing education must be recorded in CE Broker beginning January 1, 2026.
Two pages published by the same agency say different things about reciprocity, and a contractor planning a move needs to know that before booking travel. The rule permits it. Rule 121-2-.03(1) allows the respective divisions to enter into a formal written agreement with other state licensing boards to offer licenses by endorsement or by reciprocity. Rule 121-2-.03(2) names electrical contractor explicitly: a person may be issued a Conditioned Air Contractor, Electrical Contractor, Low Voltage Contractor, Master Plumber, Journeyman Plumber or Utility Manager license by submitting a completed application, fee, and evidence of a current out-of-state license granted on the basis of passing an examination conducted by a qualifying board. Rule 121-2-.03(3) requires the other board to have examinations and requirements substantially equal to Georgia's, and to offer a similar privilege to Georgia licensees. The Secretary of State's how-to guide for electrical contractors names five states. It instructs you to apply for reciprocity if you have a current license with no violations, obtained by exam, from Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee, and lists the application type Electrical Contractor - Non-Restricted, Reciprocity. The board's FAQ says the opposite. It states that Georgia does not currently offer licensure by Reciprocity at this time, effective May 2026. Both pages are the agency's own. We are not picking one. The fee schedule still prices an electrical initial application by exam and by reciprocity at the same $30.00, and Rule 121-2-.03 has not been repealed. Before you rely on either page, get the division's position in writing on the date you intend to file, because the five-state list and the May 2026 statement cannot both be current. Rule 121-2-.03(5) adds a limit that survives either reading: persons licensed under grandfather provisions who never passed a qualifying examination do not qualify.
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Georgia has a second disagreement between its rulebook and its FAQ, and this one reaches how you sign contracts. Rule 121-6-.01(1) requires sole proprietorships, partnerships or corporations engaging in contracting covered by the chapter to have regularly connected with the business a person holding an appropriate and current license, engaged in the practice on a full-time basis, providing adequate supervision of and responsible for the work performed. That licensee may not qualify more than one business at a time. Rule 121-5-.02(f) then makes it a disciplinary matter. Unprofessional conduct includes failing to register with the division the name of the business which the licensee qualifies under Chapter 121-6, or failing to notify the division in writing within five days of severing connection with a registered business. The board's FAQ states that the board does not register electrical contracting companies. Both are the agency's own words, and we report both rather than choosing. What is not in dispute is the rest of Rule 121-5-.02. Unprofessional conduct also covers violating local ordinances relating to contracted work, including failure to obtain required permits and inspections; establishing a pattern of charging substantially in excess of an original estimate without telling the consumer beforehand; knowingly charging for unnecessary work; diverting funds received for a specific contract; and failing to disclose the name and license number of the person supervising and performing contracted work when a consumer, the board or another state agency reasonably asks. That last one is a disclosure duty on demand, and it is the one an electrical contractor is most likely to trip. A customer who asks who is supervising the job, and under what license number, is asking a question the rule requires you to answer.
This is where Georgia differs from what most licensing guides tell you, and the difference is worth reading carefully because the rule everyone quotes does not apply to you. Department 121 contains exactly one display and advertising rule. It is Rule 121-3-.05, headed Display of Business Registration Number, renumbered from Rule 121-6-.04 in February 2025 and effective March 2025, with authority citations including O.C.G.A. 43-14-9. Its first line fixes its scope. Effective December 1, 2021, any business performing conditioned air contracting shall display, as set forth below, the business registration number. Every requirement under it is written for conditioned air contractors: the number is the license number of the qualifying licensee including the prefix CN or CR preceded by GA. REG.; commercial vehicles used exclusively in daily operation must carry it on both sides in characters at least two inches high; advertisements in yellow pages other than a standard listing, in a newspaper, or in printed matter proposing to perform services must display it; and all invoices and proposal forms used for conditioned air contracting must display it. None of that reaches electrical contracting. We read the whole of Department 121 for the words advertise, advertisement, vehicle and display. Outside Rule 121-3-.05 the terms do not appear in any operative requirement. There is no vehicle lettering rule for electrical contractors, no advertising number rule, and no invoice or proposal rule. So the state-level advertising duty on a Georgia electrical contractor is narrow, and what binds instead is scope. A Class I holder advertising unrestricted commercial capability is offering work the license does not authorise, and Rule 121-5-.02 is the exposure, alongside the disclosure duty in Rule 121-5-.02(e). Local ordinances and general advertising law still apply on their own terms.
Georgia treats unlicensed electrical contracting as both a licensing matter and a statutory one, and the two run on different tracks. The licensing track is Chapter 121-5. Rule 121-5-.01 allows a division, after notice and hearing, to take disciplinary action against a licensee or certificate holder, or to refuse to grant, renew or restore a license. Rule 121-5-.02 defines unprofessional conduct, and several of its limbs are aimed squarely at unlicensed activity by other hands: knowing employment arrangements are not listed, but failing to disclose the name and license number of the person supervising and performing contracted work is, as is violating local ordinances including failure to obtain required permits and inspections. Rule 121-3-.01(9) is the catch-all inside the electrical rule itself. Nothing in these rules shall be construed to permit the unlicensed practice of Electrical Contracting. The statutory track sits in O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 14, which the board names as its governing law. We could not publish the fine amounts. The board's laws and rules page routes the Georgia Code to a LexisNexis interface rather than to an official text, and no Chapter 14 text is published on sos.ga.gov, so the statutory penalty figures for unlicensed electrical contracting are recorded in this page's unsourced list rather than stated here. What you can act on without the statute is the commercial consequence. An unlicensed contract is a contract a customer can question, a permit an inspector can refuse, and a renewal the division can decline. Rule 121-4-.02(6) requires renewal applicants to disclose findings or pleas since the last approval and to authorise a criminal history record check, so an enforcement outcome follows you into the next cycle.
Georgia is unusual here, and the absence is a real finding rather than a gap in our research. We read the whole of Department 121, the rulebook of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board, and searched it for the words insurance and bond. Neither word appears in any requirement applying to electrical contractors. The only occurrences of bond in the department are the technical uses inside Rule 121-3-.01(7), which lists bonding jumpers and the bonding of interior metal piping systems as areas of work experience an applicant must document. So there is no state-mandated general liability minimum for a Georgia electrical contractor license, no surety bond condition on issuance, and no proof-of-coverage step in the renewal rule. Rule 121-4-.02(6) lists what a renewal application must include, and it is criminal history disclosure and a records check, not a certificate of insurance. That does not mean you can work uninsured, and treating it that way is the mistake. Three other parties set the real floor. General contractors set it in subcontract terms, and their requirements are usually specific about limits and additional insured status. Owners set it in bid documents on commercial and public work. And cities set it locally: Augusta's licensing FAQ points contractors to its License and Inspection office, and city requirements are not constrained by the silence in Chapter 121. The practical reading for a contractor going to win work is that your certificate is a sales document in Georgia rather than a licensing document. Nobody at the Secretary of State will ask for it. The customer, the general and the bid package will. Carry limits that match the work you are bidding, not the zero that the state rulebook implies.
Georgia adopts the National Electrical Code as a state minimum standard code, and it is mandatory statewide rather than optional by jurisdiction. The Department of Community Affairs publishes the current list. The National Electrical Code appears there as the 2023 edition with Georgia amendments, alongside the 2024 editions of the International Building, Residential, Fire, Plumbing, Mechanical, Fuel Gas and Swimming Pool and Spa Codes and the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code. The classification matters. DCA divides the state codes into mandatory codes, which apply whether or not a local government adopts them, and permissive codes, which local governments may choose to adopt. The National Electrical Code sits on the mandatory list. DCA cites O.C.G.A. Section 8-2-20(9)(B) as the governing provision, with sections 8-2-25(a) and 8-2-25(b) covering local government enforcement. The amendments are where the working detail lives. DCA publishes a Georgia amendment packet to the 2023 NEC. Its amendments took effect January 1, 2026, with a later date of January 1, 2027 for the health care facilities amendments at Article 517. The packet itself is marked revised January 1, 2026. Two things follow for a contractor. First, a Georgia job is not designed to plain NFPA 70. It is designed to NFPA 70 as amended by the DCA packet, and the amendments are the part an out-of-state estimator misses. Second, the board's experience rule already points at the same code: Rule 121-3-.01(4) measures your four years of primary experience against work of a type covered by the Georgia Electrical Code or the National Electrical Code, and Rule 121-3-.01(7)(f) sends applicants specifically to Chapter 5 of the NEC for special occupancies.
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The state license is the license. The cities do not issue a competing electrical license, but they do gate the permit, and each gates it differently. Atlanta's gate is physical. The city's permitting guidance requires the physical state-issued contractor's license card for the issuance of any permit, and states that the licensee details page from the Secretary of State website will no longer be accepted for any electronic submission. There is one exception, and it costs a trip: a contractor without the physical card may appear in person at the Office of Buildings with valid identification, and at that point the online Secretary of State page becomes acceptable. A Contractor License Affidavit appears among the supplemental file types the city may require. The operational lesson is simple. Order a replacement card from the division before you need it, not when a permit clerk turns you away. Augusta's gate is commercial. Augusta requires the state credential and a city business license on top of it. Its licensing FAQ states that contractors must have a state license from the Georgia State Industry Licensing Board in the appropriate trade, and in addition to the state license must have a current business license with Augusta, Georgia. The FAQ states that business licenses start at $113.00, and that approval can take up to 5 days. You will need a business name, an EIN or a social security number for a sole proprietor, an entity type, and a business address and phone number. Augusta's License and Inspection office sits at 535 Telfair Street, Suite 500. Neither city changes your class. A Class I holder pulling an Atlanta permit is still capped at single-phase installations not exceeding 200 amperes at the service drop or lateral.
Georgia runs one public search covering every licensing board at the Secretary of State, and electrical contractors sit in it alongside plumbers, conditioned air contractors and low voltage contractors. The lookup is the GOALS licensee search, and the board's own page links to it directly rather than to a third-party directory. A customer types a name or a license number and gets the record. This is the check a homeowner runs before signing, the check a general runs before adding you to a bid list, and the check a competitor runs when they want to file a complaint. Three habits make that record work for you rather than against you. Keep it current. Rule 121-4-.02(3) states that neither the board's failure to send nor your failure to receive a renewal reminder excuses a missed renewal, and Rule 121-4-.02(2) makes a license invalid the day after expiration. An invalid record found by a customer in July of an even-numbered year costs you the job. Keep it consistent. Use the same legal name and the same spelling on the search record, on your quotes, on your invoices and on your Google Business Profile. Customers who cannot match the name on the state record to the name on the truck assume the worst, and so do procurement teams. Publish your license number yourself. Georgia does not require an electrical contractor to put the number in advertising, so putting it there voluntarily is a differentiator rather than a compliance box. Put the number and the class on your quote and on your website, and link the customer to the state search so they can confirm it in one click. For verification in another state, the board charges a $35.00 fee through your GOALS account.
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These are common details other guides publish about Georgia, but we could not verify them from the agency source. Confirm them directly before relying on them.
Georgia licenses electrical contractors at state level through the Georgia State Board of Electrical Contractors, a sub-board of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board at the Office of Secretary of State. The board's FAQ states plainly that the board licenses Electrical Contractors, not electricians. There is no statewide journeyman or master electrician license.
Rule 121-3-.01(1) restricts Class I to electrical contracting involving single-phase electrical installations that do not exceed 200 amperes at the service drop or the service lateral. Class II is unrestricted. The application forms call the same classes Restricted and Non-Restricted.
The Class I restriction has two conditions and both must hold: the installation must be single-phase and must not exceed 200 amperes at the service drop or lateral. A three-phase installation falls outside Class I regardless of its ampacity. Rule 121-3-.01(6) requires Class II applicants to document experience beyond single-phase 200 ampere systems.
Rule 121-3-.01(4) requires a minimum of four years of primary experience in the electrical field of a type covered by the Georgia Electrical Code or the National Electrical Code. Up to one of those years may come from secondary experience or education, credited at fifty percent under Rule 121-3-.01(5).
Rule 121-3-.01(8) allows it. An applicant who demonstrates six years of electrical contracting experience to the satisfaction of the division is not required to demonstrate primary experience gained through direct installation. Education counts at fifty percent within that six years, capped at two years, and one reference must come from a licensed architect, professional engineer or electrical engineer.
Rule 121-3-.01(2) requires a minimum score of seventy on the appropriate examination. The board's FAQ names PSI as the testing vendor and states that the Exam Approval Letter you receive after board approval remains valid for one year.
Rule 121-2-.06(1) requires an applicant who fails twice to present evidence of completing a board approved review course before being scheduled for a third examination. Rule 121-2-.06(3) sets the standard: a code course at a college, postsecondary technical school or military service, or a course of at least 6 hours of actual instruction taught by a licensed contractor or master.
Biennially, by June 30 of even-numbered years, with a late renewal window of July 1 to July 31. The board FAQ describes the same cycle as an April through June renewal period in even years. Rule 121-4-.02(2) makes a license invalid immediately on the expiration date if it is not renewed.
Rule 121-4-.05(2) requires four hours per year, which the board's continuing education page describes as a total of 8 hours per renewal. A licensee initially licensed for one year or less is not required to complete continuing education before the first renewal. Records must be kept five years.
The agency's own pages disagree. The how-to guide names Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and lists a reciprocity application type. The board FAQ states that Georgia does not currently offer licensure by Reciprocity, effective May 2026. Rule 121-2-.03 still provides for it. Confirm with the division before filing.
No rule in Department 121 imposes that on electrical contractors. Rule 121-3-.05, the vehicle lettering and advertising display rule with the two inch character requirement and the GA. REG. prefix, applies by its own first line only to a business performing conditioned air contracting. No parallel rule covers electrical.
The Department of Community Affairs lists the National Electrical Code 2023 edition with Georgia amendments on the mandatory state minimum standard codes list, under O.C.G.A. Section 8-2-20(9)(B). The Georgia amendment packet to the 2023 NEC took effect January 1, 2026, with the Article 517 health care facility amendments effective January 1, 2027.
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