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Hawaii licenses electrical work twice. The Board of Electricians and Plumbers licenses the individual by grade, from maintenance electrician to supervising electrician, under HRS Chapter 448E. The Contractors License Board separately licenses the business in classification C-13 under HRS Chapter 444. You need both to sell and perform electrical work, and Hawaii reciprocates with no jurisdiction.
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Hawaii regulates electrical work twice, through two different boards inside the same department, and the split is the single thing most out-of-state contractors get wrong. The Board of Electricians and Plumbers licenses the person. The Contractors License Board licenses the business that sells the work. Both sit in the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The board's own application form states the relationship in one line. The electrician's or plumber's license does not allow one to contract to perform electrical work. A contractor's license pursuant to 444, HRS is required. Read that from the other direction and the second half falls out. A C-13 electrical contractor license does not authorise you personally to perform electrical work. Under HAR 16-80-4, any person who performs electrical work in the State is required to have a journey worker electrician's license, and any person who directs or supervises electrical work is required to have a supervising electrician's license. So a one-person electrical business in Hawaii holds two credentials at once: an individual license under HRS Chapter 448E and HAR Chapter 16-80, and a contractor license under HRS Chapter 444 and HAR Chapter 16-77. They renew on different cycles, they cost different money, and they are enforced by different rules. The individual license also governs what you may call yourself. HRS 448E-9(a) makes it unlawful to act, or to advertise or hold oneself out as an electrician, without a license obtained in compliance with the chapter and the board's rules. HAR 16-80-2 lists who must hold an individual license: journey worker electrician, journey worker industrial electrician, journey worker specialty electrician, maintenance electrician, supervising electrician, and the supervising industrial and specialty grades.
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Hawaii grades the individual license finely, and each grade carries both an hours requirement and an academic requirement. Journey Worker Electrician, code EJ, requires five years but not less than 10,000 hours in residential or commercial wiring, plus 240 hours of electrical academic coursework completed at or accepted by a University of Hawaii Community College. Supervising Electrician, code ES, requires four years of experience as a licensed journey worker electrician or equivalent. Journey Worker Industrial Electrician, code EJI, requires four years but not less than 8,000 hours in industrial electrical work, plus 200 hours of academic coursework. Supervising Industrial Electrician, code ESI, requires three years as a licensed journey worker industrial electrician or equivalent. Journey Worker Specialty Electrician, code EJS, requires three years but not less than 6,000 hours in the trade, plus 120 hours of academic coursework. Supervising Specialty Electrician, code ESS, requires two years as a licensed journey worker specialty electrician or equivalent. Maintenance Electrician, code EM, requires one year of electrical maintenance work plus 80 hours of academic coursework, or two years of schooling in the trade with not less than 1,000 hours of hands-on lab exercises. The specialty grade has a defined scope rather than a smaller version of the full one. HAR 16-80-3 ties it to electronic equipment, sound public address and communication systems other than for single-family or two-family dwellings, master community radio and television antenna systems, sound recording systems, burglar and fire alarm systems, low voltage remote control, and low voltage communication signal systems, and excludes the attachment of lighting and power circuits. For the supervising grades, equivalent experience means having been licensed as a journey worker or supervising level electrician for at least four years in another county, state or country whose requirements are substantially equivalent.
This is the requirement that turns a straightforward move to Hawaii into a two-year project, and it applies to the journey worker and maintenance grades only. The board's application states the source: Act 35, SLH 2010 requires all journey worker and maintenance electricians to provide verification of completion of electrical academic coursework conducted at or accepted by a University of Hawaii Community College. HRS 448E-5(b) is the statutory hook. The hours are fixed by grade: 240 for journey worker electrician, 200 for journey worker industrial, 120 for journey worker specialty, and 80 for maintenance. The course map is published, not left to interpretation. The application prints a grid of named courses against each grade. A journey worker electrician's 240 hours are built from DC Theory I, AC Theory I, AC Theory II, AC Theory III, Codeology Residential and Commercial, Grounding I, Grounding II, Grounding III, Motors, Motor Control, Transformers and Test Instruments. A journey worker specialty electrician's 120 hours instead include DC Theory I and II, AC Theory I, Codeology Basic, Grounding I, Test Instruments, and Configuring and Installing Structured Cabling Systems. The approval step is the trap. Coursework earned on the mainland is not accepted by the board directly. A University of Hawaii Community College must review it and deem it equivalent to what the college teaches. The application states the board is unable to accept electrical academic coursework that has not been reviewed and approved by a University of Hawaii Community College, and directs unreviewed coursework to Honolulu Community College with verification of completion, detailed programme and course descriptions, and contact details. The board will also accept a certificate of completion of an approved apprenticeship programme. Before submitting anything for review, check the approved coursework list the board publishes on its applications page.
The Contractors License Board licenses by classification, and electrical work sits in two of them separated by voltage. HAR 16-77 defines C-13 Electrical contractor as the license to place, install, erect or connect any electrical wires, fixtures, appliances, apparatus, electrical signs, conduits, poles, raceways, and to do trenching, backfilling, patching and surface restoration in connection with the installation of conduits and lines which transmit, transform or utilize electrical energy less than 600 volts phase to phase. The same rule states that this classification also includes the work of the C-15 electronic systems contractor and the C-60 solar power systems contractor. Above 600 volts is a different license. C-63 High voltage electrical contractor covers the same list of activities for lines which transmit, transform or utilize electrical energy of more than 600 volts phase to phase. C-15 Electronic systems contractor, which C-13 absorbs, covers public address, intercommunication, master antenna and music distribution systems, CATV, master and program clock systems, electronic teaching devices, electric door opening devices and fire and burglar alarm systems, but expressly does not include the installation of any conduits to them. Staying inside the classification is not advisory. HAR 16-77-33(c) states that a licensee classified as a specialty contractor shall not act, assume to act, or advertise as a contractor in any classification other than those which the licensee holds, and subsection (d) states that any licensee who acts, assumes to act, or advertises outside their classification shall be construed to be engaged in unlicensed activity. There is one relief valve. HAR 16-77-34 defines incidental and supplemental work as work in other trades directly related to and necessary for the completion of the project undertaken within the scope of your license.
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Hawaii does not license companies on their own merits. A company qualifies through a named individual, and that individual is doing something specific. HAR 16-77 defines a Responsible Managing Employee, or RME, as the individual who is a bona fide employee of the contracting entity, who maintains a current contractor's license, and who qualifies the contracting entity for a contractor's license in the licensed classifications held by the individual. The experience bar sits on the RME, not on the company. HAR 16-77-18(a) requires every individual applicant or RME to have had, within the past ten years immediately preceding the filing of an application, not less than four years of supervisory experience as a foreman, supervising employee, or contractor in the particular classification in which the applicant intends to engage. Subsection (c) states that contracting entities shall qualify through an RME who meets these experience requirements. Subsection (b) leaves the board discretion to accept self-employed or unlicensed experience. Training can substitute, but only just. HAR 16-77-19 lets the board approve certain technical or business administration training as acceptable experience, but in no case shall the training count as more than one year. The entity application spells out the whole gate in four lines: registration with the Business Registration Division, a good reputation for honesty, truthfulness, financial integrity and fair dealing, liability and workers' compensation insurance, and a licensed individual in your employ designated as RME. An entity cannot be issued a license without a principal RME, and the RME files a separate application if not already licensed. There is a place of business condition too. HAR 16-77-87 refuses issue or renewal to any contracting entity that does not maintain a permanent physical place of business in the State where the entity's license is prominently displayed. A post office box does not count.
Both sides of the Hawaii credential are examined, and the electrician examination has a feature worth planning around. On the individual side, HAR 16-80-5(1) states that no license shall be issued to any person unless such person applies for, takes and passes a written examination as prescribed by the board. The board qualifies applicants first, then examines: the application must be filed not less than seven days prior to the board meeting date under HAR 16-80-5(4), and the board's own instructions state that board meetings are usually scheduled in February, April, June, August, October and December, with examinations usually scheduled in the month after the board meeting. The electricians examination is based on the National Electrical Code. The board's application states that all electrician examinations are open code book and that the appropriate electrical code book is provided at the examination. That changes preparation entirely. You are not being tested on memory of the code; you are being tested on navigation of it under time pressure. Registration runs through PSI Services, and the board points candidates to the PSI trades site for exam locations and Candidate Information Bulletins. Out-of-state testing is possible but must be approved by the board on written request filed in advance, and the candidate pays any additional cost. On the contractor side, the sequence in the entity application is: application filed on or before the first Tuesday of the month, board reviews the following month, approved applicant's RME registers with a separate testing agency, RME takes the exam the following month, and the board then issues license requirements. Applications expire. HAR 16-80-5(5) deems an application abandoned and destroyed if, after two consecutive years, the applicant fails to show continued efforts to complete licensure.
The electrician application fee is $40, non-refundable, attached to the application and made payable to Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The board states that additional fees are assessed only after board approval and passage of the examination, so you do not send the license fee with the application. The license fee itself is priced against where you land in the three-year cycle, which is unusual and worth understanding before you time an application. The electrician triennium runs on years 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2023 as first years. If you are licensed between July 1 and June 30 of the first year of the triennium the fee is $306. In the second year it is $204. In the third year it is $102. You are buying the remainder of a cycle, not a fresh three years, so applying late in a triennium costs a third of applying early. The same form carries a fee box with the department's own fee codes, which prints an application fee of $40, a license fee of $52, a compliance resolution fund fee of $50, $100 or $150 depending on the period remaining, and a renewal fee of $52 or $104. Both sets of figures are printed on the same board form. We report both rather than choosing between them, and the practical advice is to pay what the board invoices after approval. One charge is not a fee but a penalty. The board assesses a $25.00 service charge for any payment dishonoured for any reason, and HAR 16-80-6(h) states that the dishonouring of any check upon first deposit constitutes a failure to meet the fee requirements, which puts your license at risk rather than merely your cash flow.
The contractor entity application fee is $50, non-refundable, for each application filed. The fee box on the form prints the entity licensing charges: license fee $260, recovery fund $150, education fund $10, compliance resolution fund $74 or $148, and a half renewal at $95. A dishonoured payment attracts the same $25 service charge. The insurance requirement is statutory and it is a condition of holding the license, not just of getting it. HRS 444-11.1(a) requires a licensed contractor to have and maintain in full force and effect workers' compensation insurance unless self-insured or excluded, liability insurance for comprehensive personal injury and property damage liability, and a bond when required by the board. The minimum limits are printed on the application. Bodily injury liability of $100,000 each person and $300,000 each occurrence, and property damage liability of $50,000 each occurrence, evidenced by a certificate from an insurer authorised to do business in the State. Out-of-state contractors may use a non-admitted carrier if the producer qualifies for an exemption under HRS 431:9A-104(b)(6). Let coverage lapse and the license goes with it. HRS 444-11.1(b) states that failure to maintain the applicable coverage causes the automatic forfeiture of the license effective as of the date of expiration or cancellation, and subsection (c) bars restoration until satisfactory proof of continuous coverage is submitted. Subsection (d) gives you sixty days before all fees are forfeited and you must apply as a new applicant. Bonding is discretionary rather than universal. HRS 444-16.5 allows the board to require a specialty contractor to put up a bond of not less than $5,000 from an authorised surety, conditioned on payment of wages and on the honest conduct of the business, taking the applicant's financial condition and experience into account.
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Hawaii renews the individual on a triennium and the business on a biennium, and both are fixed calendar dates shared by every licensee. The individual license renews every three years. The board states that all electrician licenses, regardless of issuance date, are subject to renewal on or before June 30 every three years, beginning June 1996. HAR 16-80-6(c) frames the same duty as a payment: the triennial renewal fee and compliance resolution fund fees shall be paid by electricians to the board on or before July 1 of every third year. HAR 16-80-6(e) allows a postmark before July 1 to count. Miss it and the language is forfeiture, not lapse. HAR 16-80-6(d) states that failure, neglect or refusal to pay these fees, or to meet the continued competency requirements of HRS 448E-8.5, before the renewal date shall constitute a forfeiture of the licensee's license. HAR 16-80-6(f) allows restoration within one year of forfeiture on filing the board's form, meeting continued competency, and paying renewal and penalty fees. After one year, HAR 16-80-6(g) requires you to file as a new applicant, with the board holding discretion to waive re-examination for good and valid reasons. The contractor license renews on a different clock. HRS 444-15(a) requires the biennial renewal fee, along with recovery fund, education fund and compliance resolution fund fees, to be paid on or before September 30 of each even-numbered year, and states that failure to pay and to submit all required documents by that date constitutes a forfeiture. HRS 444-15(b) allows restoration within sixty days of September 30 on payment of a penalty fee. So a Hawaii electrical business tracks June 30 in a triennium year and September 30 in every even year.
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If you are looking for a number of continuing education hours for a Hawaii electrician, there is not one. The requirement is tied to the National Electrical Code revision cycle instead, and it is pass or fail. HRS 448E-8.5(a) states that prior to each license renewal, all licensed electricians except maintenance electricians shall either furnish the board with proof of attendance at an educational course related to current updates of the National Electrical Code conducted or approved by the community colleges, or successfully complete an examination prescribed by the board on current updates to the National Electrical Code. The board contracts with a professional testing agency for that examination, and the licensee pays the testing agency directly. The board's application confirms the mechanics. The NEC is updated every three years, and the update course is developed and taught by Honolulu Community College and participating community colleges. Where the examination route is used, it is open book and the code book is provided. The board's continued competency page names the current cycle. It states the requirement as updates to the 2020 National Electrical Code, for the licensing period July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, applying to all licensed electricians on active status in the EJ, EJI, EJS, ES, ESI and ESS classes, and excluding maintenance electricians on code EM. Proof reaches the board either by authorising Honolulu Community College or the Hawaii Electricians Training Fund to transmit completion directly, or by submitting a completion certificate from one of them. Licensees on inactive status are not subject to it. One exemption applies once. HRS 448E-8.5(c) states that a licensee issued a new license within one year of the renewal date is not required to take the course or the examination for that renewal, and the board notes the exemption does not carry to later renewals.
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This is short because the board states it in one sentence, in capitals, at the top of the qualifying section of its own application. Hawaii does not reciprocate with any jurisdiction. There is no endorsement pathway, no list of approved states, and no waiver of the examination for a licensed mainland electrician. An applicant who has held a license elsewhere takes the Hawaii examination like anyone else, and the board states that all applicants shall meet the requirements in effect at the time of application, shall apply, shall be qualified by the Board of Electricians and Plumbers, and shall attain a passing score on Hawaii's licensure examination. What an out-of-state license does buy you is a route to prove experience, and a definition of equivalence for the supervising grades. HAR 16-80-3 defines equivalent experience in the trade for supervising electricians as having been licensed as a journey worker electrician or supervising electrician in another county, state or country whose requirements for licensure are substantially equivalent to those in force in Hawaii. The application sets four years as the period for the supervising categories. Out-of-state experience is verified on a form. The board requires notarized Experience Verification forms from each licensed electrician under whom the experience was gained, and states that a license as an electrical contractor is not acceptable on that form, with one exception: where the state in which the experience was gained does not license journey worker, supervising or master electricians and requires only a contractor's license, the board will accept the form signed by the licensed contractor, provided verification of that contractor's license with effective dates is submitted. License Verification forms are required from every jurisdiction in which you have ever held a license, so a dormant license in a third state still has to be accounted for.
Hawaii carries two penalty regimes, one for the individual license and one for the contractor license, and the contractor one is the expensive one. On the individual side, HRS 448E-10(b) states that any person who violates any provision of the chapter shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $5,000 for each violation. HRS 448E-10(a) separately allows the board to suspend or revoke a license or impose fines for causes that include false, fraudulent or deceptive advertising, permitting an unlicensed person to perform activities requiring a license, aiding or abetting an unlicensed person, allowing a license to be used by an unlicensed person, and acting as an agent, partner or associate of an unlicensed person. On the contractor side, HRS 444-23(c) prices unlicensed contracting on a scale. A person who violates HRS 444-9 shall be fined $2,500 or forty per cent of the total contract price, whichever is greater, for a first offense; $3,500 or forty per cent for a second; and $5,000 or forty per cent for any subsequent offense. Working outside your classification is priced separately under HRS 444-23(a) at $500 for a first offense, $1,000 for a second, and not less than $1,500 or more than $2,000 after that. Aiding or abetting under HRS 444-9.3 runs to a fine of up to $25,000 or the full contract price, whichever is greater. There is also a forfeiture power. HRS 444-23.5 lets an investigator issue a notice of forfeiture covering the tools, implements, documents, materials or other property used in unlicensed activity. And both chapters can take your phone number. HRS 448E-9(c) and HRS 444-9.2(c) require the utility furnishing telephone service to disconnect the number contained in an advertisement once a court or the board finds the advertising unlawful.
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Hawaii has the specific advertising and display rules that Georgia lacks, and two of them are unusual enough to be worth memorising. The first is the advertising rule. HAR 16-77-83 requires a contracting entity advertising through any media to be identified as a licensed contractor by listing the name under which the licensee is licensed, or the trade name filed with the board, and the licensee's license number. The rule defines media broadly: newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the Internet, and directories including all listings in the yellow pages. Your website and your directory listings are inside that definition. HRS 444-9.2 puts teeth behind it. Subsection (a) makes it a misdemeanor to advertise as a contractor without a valid license for the goods and services advertised, and defines advertise to include any card, sign or device, any sign or marking on or in any building, vehicle or structure, newspaper or magazine advertising, any directory listing under a heading that includes the word contractor, and broadcast commercials. Subsection (b) states a contractor may advertise only if the advertisement or listing includes the applicable and current license number, and requires the publisher to refuse to run an advertisement that does not comply. The second rule is about bodies, not billboards. HRS 444-9.5(a) requires at least half of all individuals performing electrical work employed on a construction job site by an electrical contractor to be licensed under HRS Chapter 448E, with a county-level waiver available where there are insufficient licensed workers. Subsection (b) requires those licensed individuals to visibly display their license on their person while on the job site, and states that only individuals displaying their license at the time of a site inspection shall be counted toward compliance. The board's own consumer bulletin tells homeowners to identify licensed electricians by the license they are required to wear.
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Hawaii does not hand you one statewide electrical code edition. The board's own rules point you somewhere else. HAR 16-80-3 defines electrical wiring by reference to installations designed, intended or used to generate, transmit, transform or utilize electrical energy within the scope and purpose of the National Electrical Code, as adopted by each county. That closing phrase is the whole story: the edition in force is a county question, and a contractor working across islands is working across adoptions. For the City and County of Honolulu, the code sits in Chapter 17 of the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu. The Department of Planning and Permitting publishes the adopted list, and it records the Electrical Code at Chapter 17 as the 2020 National Electrical Code with State and City amendments, effective 03/14/2024. The rest of the Honolulu list is worth knowing because electrical work never arrives alone. Chapter 16 carries the 2018 International Building Code, the 2018 International Residential Code and the 2018 International Existing Building Code, each with state amendments and city amendments effective 8/9/2024 and an addendum effective 3/11/25. Chapter 16B carries the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code. Chapter 19 carries the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code, effective 3/1/2024. The licensing side is enforced at the permit counter. Honolulu's building permit guidance states that all electrical and plumbing work must be performed by contractors licensed by the State of Hawaii per HRS Chapter 444 and 448E, and that the owner-builder exemption does not extend to electrical work. Property owners cannot do their own electrical work in Honolulu. Electrical contractors submit inspection requests on the city's electrical inspection request form at least 48 hours before the scheduled inspection.
Most of Hawaii's electrical work sits in the City and County of Honolulu, and the city's additions are procedural rather than a second license. Honolulu does not issue its own electrician license. HRS 448E and HRS 444 are state chapters administered by state boards, and the city's role is the permit and the inspection. Honolulu's permitting FAQ restates the state requirement rather than replacing it: all electrical and plumbing work must be performed by contractors licensed by the State of Hawaii per HRS Chapter 444 and 448E, with links to both chapters. The owner-builder point is the one that changes how you quote residential work. Honolulu's FAQ defines the owner-builder exemption as applying to a structure for personal use, not for public occupancy or resale within one year, and then states that the exemption does not extend to electrical work, which requires state licensure regardless of owner-builder status. A homeowner who has decided to save money by doing their own wiring is not allowed to, and telling them so early is easier than discovering it at inspection. Inspections run on a request, not a visit. Electrical contractors submit the city's electrical inspection request form at least 48 hours before the scheduled inspection. Two state rules bite hardest on an Oahu job site. HRS 444-9.5 requires at least half of the individuals performing electrical work on the site to hold individual licenses, and requires those licensees to wear the license visibly, counting only those displaying it at the time of inspection. And HAR 16-80-4(7) requires that any apprentice, electrician's helper or other unlicensed person performing electrical work be supervised by a licensee who oversees, reviews and is responsible for the work and is physically present and available at the project site at all times during which the work is being performed.
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Hawaii runs one public search covering every profession the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division regulates, and both halves of your credential appear in it. The search is MyPVL, the DCCA public license search. Its license type list includes the electrician grades, naming Journey-Worker Electrician, Maintenance Electrician and Supervising Electrician among others, and the contractor types, naming Contractor - Entity, Contractor - Responsible Managing Employee and Contractor - Sole Proprietor. Results carry name, license, license type and location. The page notes that the data reflects posted information, that it does not reflect changes being reviewed or not yet posted, and that it updates daily Monday through Friday except holidays. The department runs a second check aimed at consumers. RICO, the Regulated Industries Complaints Office, publishes a check page that customers are steered to before hiring, and the Contractors License Board's consumer bulletin tells homeowners to verify licensing status through the department's database before hiring and warns them that they carry the risk if work by an unlicensed contractor fails to meet code or proceeds without permits. Three habits make that record work for you. Show both numbers. Your contractor license number is what HAR 16-77-83 requires in advertising, but customers searching your name will also find your individual electrician record, and a contractor whose personal license is current reads as a tradesperson rather than a broker. Use the licensed name. HAR 16-77-83 requires advertising to carry the name under which you are licensed, or a trade name filed with the board. A trade name that is not on file is a compliance gap and a search failure at once. Keep the certificate posted. HAR 16-77-87 requires your license to be prominently displayed at your permanent place of business, and HRS 444-9.5(b) requires the individual license to be worn on site.
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These are common details other guides publish about Hawaii, but we could not verify them from the agency source. Confirm them directly before relying on them.
Yes, and twice over. The Board of Electricians and Plumbers licenses individual electricians under HRS Chapter 448E and HAR Chapter 16-80, and the Contractors License Board separately licenses the contracting business under HRS Chapter 444 and HAR Chapter 16-77. Both boards sit in the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of DCCA.
No. The board's own application states that the electrician's license does not allow one to contract to perform electrical work, and that a contractor's license pursuant to HRS Chapter 444 is required. Conversely a C-13 contractor license does not authorise you personally to perform the work without an individual license.
HAR 16-77 defines C-13 as installing and connecting electrical wires, fixtures, appliances, apparatus, signs, conduits, poles and raceways, with related trenching and surface restoration, for lines that transmit, transform or utilize electrical energy less than 600 volts phase to phase. It also includes the work of C-15 electronic systems and C-60 solar power systems contractors.
C-63 High voltage electrical contractor. HAR 16-77 defines it as the same list of installation activities for lines which transmit, transform or utilize electrical energy of more than 600 volts phase to phase. C-13 stops at less than 600 volts phase to phase.
Five years but not less than 10,000 hours in residential or commercial wiring, plus satisfactory completion of 240 hours of electrical academic coursework accepted by a University of Hawaii Community College. The industrial grade requires four years and not less than 8,000 hours with 200 coursework hours.
Only after review. The board states it is unable to accept electrical academic coursework that has not been reviewed and approved by a University of Hawaii Community College. Unreviewed coursework goes to Honolulu Community College with verification of completion and detailed programme and course descriptions.
No. The board's application states in capitals that Hawaii does not reciprocate with any jurisdiction. Out-of-state licensure can help prove equivalent experience for the supervising grades under HAR 16-80-3, but every applicant must pass Hawaii's own examination.
There is no hour count. HRS 448E-8.5(a) requires proof of attendance at a community college course on current updates to the National Electrical Code, or a passing score on a board-prescribed examination on those updates. The board's page states the current requirement as updates to the 2020 NEC for the July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 period. Maintenance electricians are exempt.
The individual electrician license renews on or before June 30 every three years, and HAR 16-80-6(c) frames the payment date as on or before July 1 of every third year. The contractor license renews by September 30 of each even-numbered year under HRS 444-15(a). Missing either date is a forfeiture, not a lapse.
HRS 444-11.1 requires workers' compensation insurance unless excluded, plus comprehensive personal injury and property damage liability insurance. The board's application sets the minimum limits at $100,000 bodily injury each person, $300,000 each occurrence, and $50,000 property damage each occurrence. Letting coverage lapse forfeits the license automatically.
Yes. HAR 16-77-83 requires a contracting entity advertising through any media, including the Internet and directories, to list the licensed name or filed trade name and the license number. HRS 444-9.2(b) makes the number mandatory and requires publishers to refuse non-compliant advertisements.
HRS 444-9.5(a) requires at least half of all individuals performing electrical work employed on a construction job site by an electrical contractor to be licensed under HRS Chapter 448E. Subsection (b) requires those licensed individuals to visibly display their license on their person, and only those displaying it at the time of inspection are counted.
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