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Alaska licenses HVAC and refrigeration contracting through the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing. Individuals hold a mechanical administrator license under AS 08.40, in one of five HVAC or refrigeration categories, and businesses hold a mechanical contractor registration under AS 08.18, which requires a $10,000 bond and specific insurance minimums. Federal EPA Section 608 certification is required separately for anyone who handles refrigerant.
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Alaska regulates heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration contracting through two state agencies rather than one HVAC board. The Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, inside the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, issues the mechanical administrator license and registers the mechanical contracting business. The credential sits in Alaska Statutes chapter 08.40, which states that a person may not act as a mechanical administrator in the state without a license issued by the department, and that a licensee may perform work only in the category for which the person is licensed. A mechanical contracting business also needs a certificate of registration under a separate chapter, AS 08.18. Alaska Statutes AS 08.18.011 makes registration a condition of bidding, not just building: a person may not submit a bid or work as a contractor until the department has issued that certificate. AS 08.18.028 then ties the two credentials together for this trade specifically: the department may not issue a mechanical contractor's certificate of registration unless the applicant is, or employs, a person currently licensed as a mechanical administrator, and if that relationship ends, the registration goes void 30 days after the next scheduled administrator examination unless a replacement is hired first. The state's own definition of a mechanical contractor names this trade directly. AS 08.18 defines a mechanical contractor as a contractor whose business operations involve plumbing, pipe fitting, sheet metal, heating, air conditioning, ventilating, or sprinkler and dry chemical fire protection work, installing or modifying mechanical systems subject to codes including the Uniform Mechanical Code. An HVAC company operating in Alaska is therefore stacking a business registration and an individual license, both administered by the same division, before it ever reaches the federal refrigerant rules covered later in this article.
The business side of Alaska's system runs on AS 08.18, the Construction Contractors chapter, and it treats a mechanical contractor as its own registration category, separate from a general contractor or a specialty contractor. AS 08.18.011(a) is blunt about timing: a person may not submit a bid or work as a contractor until a certificate of registration has been issued, so the paperwork has to be finished before the estimate goes out, not after the job is won. Registration is not granted on the business's own merits. AS 08.18.028(a) requires the applicant to either be, or employ, a person currently licensed as a mechanical administrator under AS 08.40. Subsection (b) lets a mechanical contractor employ more than one licensed administrator, which is how larger HVAC companies cover multiple categories or multiple crews. Subsection (c) is the provision that punishes neglect: if the only mechanical administrator tied to a registered mechanical contractor leaves, the registration becomes void 30 days after the next regularly scheduled mechanical administrator examination, unless the company hires a replacement licensed administrator before that deadline arrives. This structure means an HVAC business cannot simply register once and forget about staffing. Losing its qualifying individual starts a clock, and that clock is tied to the examination schedule rather than to a fixed number of days, since the department only offers the exam periodically. A company planning an ownership change, a retirement, or an administrator's departure should have a replacement already in the pipeline, since finding a new licensed administrator after the fact, and getting that person through the licensing process, can easily outrun a 30 day window measured from the next test date rather than from the day the position opened. The registration and the administrator license are reviewed separately later in this article, but AS 08.18.028 is the statute that welds them together for this specific trade.
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Alaska's mechanical administrator license, issued under AS 08.40 and 12 AAC 39, is not a single credential. The division's own application materials list seven categories: Heating, Cooling and Process Piping (HCPP), Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal (UHVCS), Residential HVAC (RHVC), Mechanical Systems Temperature Control (CNTL), Unlimited Refrigeration (UR), Unlimited Commercial and Industrial Plumbing (UCIP), and Residential Plumbing and Hydronic Heating (RPHH). The last two are the plumbing categories. The other five are the ones that cover HVAC and refrigeration contracting, and a person licensed under AS 08.40.260(b) may perform work only in the category for which they hold a license. An HVAC or refrigeration business therefore has to match its license category to the actual work it sells, not just obtain any mechanical administrator credential. A shop that installs residential furnaces and central air needs Residential HVAC or, for larger and unlimited scope work, Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal. A shop that services commercial boilers and hydronic piping needs Heating, Cooling and Process Piping. A refrigeration contractor working on commercial refrigeration and air conditioning equipment needs Unlimited Refrigeration. A controls specialist needs Mechanical Systems Temperature Control. A company can hold more than one category, and the division publishes a separate application for adding a category to an existing license, but each additional category requires its own qualifying application and its own examination. This category structure is the single most important fact for an HVAC contractor to get right before applying, since applying in the wrong category means reapplying, including the fees and the exam, rather than simply amending an existing license.
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The scope of each category is written into regulation in detail, and the boundaries matter for what a licensed administrator can legally supervise. Heating, Cooling and Process Piping, under 12 AAC 39.232, covers hydronic heating, cooling, and process piping systems of any temperature and pressure range, chilled water and condensing water systems, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, refrigeration water chillers, cooling towers, fuel oil tanks and piping, and fuel gas piping, along with steam and hot water boilers and their chimneys, flues, burners, and controls. Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal, under 12 AAC 39.252, covers the installation, alteration, or retrofitting of air handling and refrigeration cycle components, including fans, coils, evaporative cooling units, self contained packaged units, air handling units, condensing units, furnaces, flues, chimneys, duct work, and related fuel oil and fuel gas piping, but the regulation specifically limits this category's piping authority to fuel lines, refrigerant piping, chilled water piping, and condensing water piping that is integral to an HVAC system. Residential HVAC, under 12 AAC 39.332, is narrower still: it covers fuel gas piping downstream of the meter, or fuel tank and fuel oil piping, that is integral to an HVAC system on a single family home or a duplex of no more than three stories, plus warm air heating systems not exceeding 240,000 BTU per hour input. Unlimited Refrigeration, under 12 AAC 39.272, covers refrigeration and air conditioning equipment and systems unlimited as to thermal capacity or refrigerant type, including domestic water piping from an existing valved connection, tower and condensing water piping, and chilled water piping, limited to the refrigerant cycle, controls, and related appurtenances. Mechanical Systems Temperature Control, under 12 AAC 39.292, covers pneumatic and electric controls and low voltage control wiring across all of the mechanical categories, so long as the work does not alter a system's electrical characteristics, which would instead require an electrical administrator.
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Alaska's mechanical administrator regulations set a different experience window for each HVAC and refrigeration category, and all of them are written as recent experience rather than lifetime experience. Heating, Cooling and Process Piping, under 12 AAC 39.222, requires practical experience as a journeyman pipefitter in heating, cooling, and process piping work for at least four of the six years immediately before the application, with alternate paths through construction management experience, a mechanical engineering degree paired with at least one of the three years immediately before application as a journeyman or field engineer, or state professional engineer registration paired with management experience. Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal, under 12 AAC 39.242, requires the same four of six year window as a journeyman in HVAC and sheet metal work, or four of six years of management experience as a field superintendent, or a combination of the two, with the same engineering degree and professional engineer alternates available at one of the preceding three years. The remaining three HVAC and refrigeration categories run on a shorter window. Residential HVAC, under 12 AAC 39.322, requires practical experience as a journeyman in residential HVAC work for at least two of the four years immediately before application. Unlimited Refrigeration, under 12 AAC 39.262, requires the same two of four years as a journeyman in refrigeration, or, as an alternate path, graduation from an accredited or Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education approved college, university, or trade school program in refrigeration. Mechanical Systems Temperature Control, under 12 AAC 39.282, requires two of four years as a journeyman in temperature control work, or four of six years of management experience in the same field, or a mechanical engineering degree, or graduation from an accredited program in mechanical systems temperature control. None of these regulations define a fixed apprenticeship hour count the way the Department of Labor's certificate of fitness rules do for other trades. The applicant instead documents years of qualifying experience directly to the division as part of the license application.
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Every mechanical administrator category is tested separately, and the examination requirement is the same across all seven categories. 12 AAC 39.012(a)(4) requires verification that the applicant obtained, within the 12 months immediately preceding the date of application, a score of at least 70 percent on a mechanical administrator examination approved by the department. The division's own application instructions confirm the exam is administered by PSI Services LLC, that examination results are valid for one year, and that an applicant must obtain approval from the division before registering to sit for the test. 12 AAC 39.033 limits how often a candidate can retry: an applicant may not take the written examination more than three times within a 12 month period. Adding a category to an existing license works the same way. 12 AAC 39.025 requires a licensee who wants to add a category to submit the same application information required for an original license and pass the examination for that specific category, so holding one HVAC category does not exempt a contractor from testing again to add another, such as moving from Residential HVAC into Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal. Two paths exist for the underlying application. 12 AAC 39.012 covers licensure by examination, which pairs the exam score with the experience or education proof described in the previous section. 12 AAC 39.022 covers licensure by credentials, which substitutes verification of a current, active license from another state and verification of an equivalent examination passed there, sent directly to the department by that state's licensing agency, but the applicant still has to meet Alaska's own experience and education requirements under the regulations for the category applied for. Neither path skips the category specific rules covered in the two previous sections of this article.
Alaska prices the mechanical administrator license and the mechanical contractor registration as two separate, flat transactions, and the division's own application forms state both in dollars. A mechanical administrator license, whether applied for by examination or by credentials, carries a $150.00 nonrefundable application fee plus a $200.00 license fee, for total fees due of $350.00. That price applies per category, so a contractor adding a second HVAC category, or adding a refrigeration category alongside an HVAC one, pays the fee again for that category. Mechanical contractor registration, the business side of the system, carries a $100.00 nonrefundable application fee plus a $250.00 registration fee, also totaling $350.00. A single owner HVAC business standing up both credentials for the first time is therefore paying $350.00 for the individual license and $350.00 for the business registration before bond and insurance costs are added, which are covered next. The division's own paperwork is not perfectly consistent on the bond figure that goes with registration. The mechanical contractor application's general instructions page states that a bond of $5,000.00 is required to register as a mechanical contractor, while the bond section of the same application, and the underlying statute, state a bond of $10,000.00. AS 08.18.071(b)(3), the actual statutory bond schedule, sets $10,000 for a mechanical or specialty contractor, which is the figure this article treats as controlling, since it comes directly from the statute rather than from a summary line in an instructions page. A contractor should confirm the bond amount the division expects at the time of application rather than relying on either printed figure alone.
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Bond and insurance requirements for a mechanical contractor come from AS 08.18.071 and AS 08.18.101, and both apply to the registration, not to the individual mechanical administrator license. AS 08.18.071(b)(3) sets the surety bond, or an equivalent cash deposit or negotiable security, at $10,000 for a mechanical or specialty contractor, which is the category an HVAC and refrigeration business registers under. For comparison, the same statute sets $25,000 for a general contractor, $20,000 for a general contractor with a residential endorsement doing residential work only, and $5,000 for a contractor whose work is limited to projects with an aggregate contract price of $10,000 or less. The bond runs to the state and covers unpaid taxes, unpaid labor or material suppliers, and amounts adjudged against the contractor for negligent or improper work or breach of contract. AS 08.18.101(a) requires two kinds of insurance at the time of applying for registration or renewing it. First, workers compensation insurance to the extent required under AS 23.30 for any employees. Second, public liability and property damage insurance of not less than $20,000 for property damage, $50,000 for injury or death to any one person, and $100,000 for injury or death to more than one person, with an exception for a contractor whose projects each have an aggregate contract price of $2,500 or less. AS 08.18.111 adds a rule that trips up marketing copy: a contractor may not advertise as bonded and insured simply because it has complied with these statutory minimums. Meeting the state's floor is not, by itself, a claim the statute lets a contractor make in advertising, which is worth knowing before a website or truck lettering repeats the phrase.
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The mechanical administrator license and the mechanical contractor registration renew on separate tracks defined in separate regulations. 12 AAC 39.027 sets the renewal requirement for the administrator license: the licensee submits a renewal application, the fee established under the division's centralized fee regulation, and certification of compliance with the continuing education requirements of 12 AAC 39.400 through 12 AAC 39.460. That continuing education requirement is spelled out at 12 AAC 39.410(b): a mechanical administrator must satisfactorily complete at least one eight hour continuing education workshop, or an equivalent number of hours of a formal correspondence or individual study program approved by the department, covering the codes applicable to each license category held. For the five HVAC and refrigeration categories, Heating, Cooling and Process Piping, Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal, Unlimited Refrigeration, Mechanical Systems Temperature Control, and Residential HVAC, that required subject is the Uniform Mechanical Code in effect in the state at the time the coursework is completed. 12 AAC 39.400 states the purpose plainly: continuing education is meant to ensure that license renewal depends on proof of continued competency and to protect consumers by keeping licensed administrators current on applicable codes. An administrator who has passed a licensing examination based on the appropriate codes during the concluding license period is not separately required to also complete the workshop for that period, under 12 AAC 39.410(a). The contractor registration side renews under AS 08.18.031, which requires the same registration requirements as an original application, including current bond and insurance evidence under AS 08.18.071 and AS 08.18.101. Because a mechanical contractor's registration is also tied to having a current mechanical administrator on staff under AS 08.18.028, a lapse in either credential can threaten the other, so a business should track both renewal dates rather than assuming one covers the other.
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Alaska does not accept another state's mechanical or HVAC license automatically. 12 AAC 39.022 describes the licensure by credentials path: a complete application requires verification of a current, active license from the other state, sent directly to the department by that state's licensing agency, and verification of an examination passed there that the department considers equivalent to Alaska's own mechanical administrator examination, also sent directly by the other state's agency. The division's own credentials application form states the limit on this path plainly: passing an exam in another state does not guarantee qualification of an applicant for an Alaska license, and all other requirements under statute and regulation must still be met. That means the experience windows described earlier in this article, four of the last six years for Heating, Cooling and Process Piping and Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal, or two of the last four years for Residential HVAC, Unlimited Refrigeration, and Mechanical Systems Temperature Control, still apply to an applicant coming from another state, regardless of how long that person has held a credential elsewhere. The division may also require additional documentation to substantiate the experience or education an out of state applicant claims before approving a license by credentials, under 12 AAC 39.022(b). There is no separate reciprocity path for the mechanical contractor registration itself. An out of state HVAC company that wants to bid work in Alaska registers as a mechanical contractor the same way an Alaska company does, which means posting the AS 08.18.071 bond, carrying the AS 08.18.101 insurance, and having a licensed mechanical administrator on staff, in whichever category matches the work, before submitting a bid.
Alaska attaches separate penalties to the individual license and to the business registration, and a contractor operating without either one can face both. AS 08.40.380(a) makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, for a person to knowingly violate the mechanical administrator statutes at AS 08.40.210 through 08.40.490, or to knowingly violate a department regulation, order, or adopted code that was in effect when the installation or repair was made. AS 08.40.360 also lets the commissioner issue a cease and desist order against a person acting as a mechanical administrator without a license, which remains in effect until the violation is corrected, and AS 08.40.370 lets the commissioner seek an injunction in superior court on the same grounds. On the contracting business side, AS 08.18.141(a) makes it a class B misdemeanor for a contractor, or a person acting in the capacity of a contractor, to knowingly violate the registration requirement of AS 08.18.011, but only after that person has previously been convicted of the same violation, found guilty of a related violation under AS 08.18.117, or already fined under AS 08.18.125. AS 08.18.141(b) treats a first violation of most other provisions in the chapter as a lesser violation punishable under Alaska's general violation statute rather than as a misdemeanor. The two enforcement tracks are independent of each other. A mechanical administrator who loses their license faces the AS 08.40 penalty regardless of the business's registration status, and a business that lets its registration lapse faces the AS 08.18 penalty regardless of whether its administrator's individual license is still valid. AS 08.18.151 adds a practical consequence beyond any fine: a person acting as a contractor cannot sue in an Alaska court to collect payment for the work without alleging and proving that they were a registered contractor at the time the work was contracted.
Alaska's mechanical administrator law includes exemptions that are unusual outside the state and reflect its geography directly. AS 08.40.390(b) excludes several categories of work from the mechanical administrator requirement entirely. One exclusion covers mechanical work costing no more than $50,000 involving residences or small commercial establishments in communities that either have a population under 5,000, based on the latest available federal or state census the department approves, or are located more than 50 miles by air or water transportation from the business place of a licensed mechanical administrator. Another excludes mechanical installation on a single family or two family residence that is not intended for sale at the time of installation. A third excludes installation of water lines or storm or sanitary sewer lines more than five feet from a building. A fourth excludes mechanical maintenance or repair performed by a person as an employee of a commercial property's owner or tenant, as part of that employee's normal job duties. AS 08.40.390(a) separately excludes utility, municipal, and local government employees doing mechanical work on a system their employer owns and operates. The statute also excludes the manufacture or repair of mechanical apparatus or equipment itself, as distinct from installing it in a building. These exclusions matter most for the many small, remote Alaska communities that are genuinely distant from any licensed mechanical administrator's place of business. A village heating system repair that would otherwise require a licensed HVAC or refrigeration category administrator can fall outside AS 08.40 entirely if the community and project meet the population, distance, and dollar thresholds. The exemptions do not reach the AS 08.18 contractor registration statute on their own, so a business doing exempt individual-license work may still need to confirm separately whether its registration status is affected, since this article did not locate a parallel exemption written into AS 08.18 itself.
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Alaska writes contractor advertising requirements directly into statute rather than leaving them to board policy. AS 08.18.051(b) requires that all advertising, contracts, correspondence, cards, signs, posters, papers, and documents that a contractor prepares for the contracting business show the contractor's name, mailing address, and the address of the contractor's principal place of business. Advertising and contracts specifically must also include the contractor's registration number. The statute reaches far beyond paid advertising: correspondence, business cards, and signage all carry the same name and address requirement, even though only advertising and contracts require the registration number itself. The division allows one accommodation for digital marketing. Under AS 08.18.051(b), an advertisement that directs potential customers to the contractor's website or landing page satisfies the requirement if the advertisement states that the required information appears there, and the website or landing page actually contains it. A short ad or a truck wrap can point to a web page rather than listing everything on its face, as long as that linked page carries the full name, mailing address, principal place of business address, and registration number. AS 08.18.051(c) extends the identification duty to the people working for the contractor: individual contractors, partners, associates, agents, salespeople, solicitors, officers, and employees must use their true names and addresses, and the true name of the contractor firm, at all times while acting in that capacity. AS 08.18.111 adds a separate limit that belongs in the same advertising conversation: merely complying with the chapter's bond and insurance requirements does not, by itself, give a contractor the right to advertise as bonded and insured. An HVAC business should treat its website footer, estimate template, and contract template as the three places most likely to be checked against AS 08.18.051(b), since a customer or a competitor can verify all three without leaving a desk.
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State licensing is not the end of an HVAC contractor's paperwork in Alaska's largest cities. Local building departments in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau each run their own permitting and inspection process for mechanical work, separate from anything the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing covers, which is standard practice nationally: the state credential establishes that a person or company is qualified to do the work, while the local permit and inspection process establishes that a specific job at a specific address met the applicable mechanical code before it was closed up. This article's own research session could not independently load Anchorage's, Fairbanks's, or Juneau's current mechanical permit fee schedules or municipal license terms from their primary sources during this review, so an HVAC contractor should contact each city's building department directly before bidding work there, since municipal rules sit outside the state statutes and regulations this article otherwise relies on and can change independently of them. For verifying the state credential itself, the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing maintains a public professional license search covering its licensing programs, including mechanical administrators and construction contractors. A customer hiring an HVAC contractor can use that kind of search to confirm the business currently holds a mechanical contractor registration and that its administrator holds a current license in a category matching the work, such as Residential HVAC for a furnace replacement or Unlimited Refrigeration for commercial refrigeration service. Checking the registration number a contractor is required to print under AS 08.18.051(b) against what the division's search returns for that business is a useful cross check, since a lapsed registration also signals that the AS 08.18.071 bond or AS 08.18.101 insurance behind it may no longer be current. This review could not independently load the division's search interface during this session to confirm its exact current address or accepted search fields, since the division's website returned an automated bot check each time this research attempted to reach it directly, so no lookup address is asserted here as independently confirmed by this session.
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Separate from anything Alaska itself requires, federal law adds a certification requirement that applies the same way in Alaska as everywhere else in the country. Section 608 of the Clean Air Act, codified at 40 CFR Part 82, Subpart F, establishes the National Recycling and Emission Reduction Program, and it prohibits anyone from intentionally venting ozone depleting refrigerants or their substitutes, including hydrofluorocarbons, into the atmosphere while maintaining, servicing, repairing, or disposing of air conditioning or refrigeration equipment. The Environmental Protection Agency requires certification of anyone who performs that kind of work, structured by equipment type rather than as one blanket credential. A technician holds a Core certification covering general knowledge, then adds Type I for small appliances, Type II for high pressure equipment such as most residential and light commercial air conditioning and heat pump systems, Type III for low pressure chillers, or a Universal certification that combines all three. The EPA does not administer the test or issue the card itself. Technicians test through EPA approved certifying organizations, and a lost card is replaced through one of those organizations rather than through the agency. This federal requirement is completely independent of Alaska's own mechanical administrator license and mechanical contractor registration. A person holding a current Unlimited Refrigeration or Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal mechanical administrator license is still not legally permitted to handle refrigerant on the job without the matching EPA Section 608 certification for the equipment type involved, and the reverse is equally true for an EPA certified technician who has not met Alaska's state licensing requirements. An HVAC or refrigeration business operating in Alaska should confirm that every technician who personally handles refrigerant, not just the administrator whose name is on the state license, holds the correct type of Section 608 certification for the systems that business services.
An HVAC or refrigeration contracting business in Alaska is stacking four separate compliance layers, not satisfying one requirement. The first is the mechanical administrator license under AS 08.40 and 12 AAC 39, held by a specific individual in a specific category, Heating, Cooling and Process Piping, Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal, Residential HVAC, Unlimited Refrigeration, or Mechanical Systems Temperature Control, matched to the work the business actually performs. The second is the mechanical contractor registration under AS 08.18, held by the business entity, which cannot be issued or kept active without a current licensed administrator on staff, and which carries the $10,000 bond and the $20,000, $50,000, and $100,000 insurance minimums set by statute. The third is federal EPA Section 608 certification, held individually by every technician who handles refrigerant, regardless of that person's state credential. The fourth is whatever local building and mechanical permit process applies in the specific city where the work happens, which for Alaska's largest population centers means Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau running its own permitting and inspection separate from anything the state division or the Department of Labor administers. A contractor entering Alaska, or expanding an existing Alaska business into a new mechanical category, should expect to satisfy all four layers before bidding a job legally: the right administrator category on staff, an active contractor registration with current bond and insurance, EPA certification for every technician who touches refrigerant at the correct type level, and a permit pulled from the correct local jurisdiction. The rural exemption at AS 08.40.390 is the one exception worth checking first, since a small, remote job may fall outside the individual license requirement entirely based on the community's population and distance from the nearest licensed administrator, even though the federal EPA layer never goes away regardless of where in Alaska the work happens.
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Not by that name. Alaska licenses mechanical trades, including HVAC and refrigeration, through a mechanical administrator license under AS 08.40 and 12 AAC 39, held by an individual, plus a separate mechanical contractor registration under AS 08.18, held by the business.
Five of the seven categories: Heating, Cooling and Process Piping (HCPP), Unlimited HVAC/Sheet Metal (UHVCS), Residential HVAC (RHVC), Mechanical Systems Temperature Control (CNTL), and Unlimited Refrigeration (UR). The other two categories are plumbing specific.
The mechanical administrator license is a $150.00 nonrefundable application fee plus a $200.00 license fee, $350.00 total, per category. Mechanical contractor registration is a $100.00 application fee plus a $250.00 registration fee, also $350.00 total.
12 AAC 39.012(a)(4) requires a score of at least 70 percent, achieved within the 12 months before application, on an exam the division approves. The exam is administered by PSI Services LLC and results are valid for one year.
AS 08.18.071(b)(3) sets a $10,000 bond for a mechanical or specialty contractor. AS 08.18.101(a)(2) requires public liability and property damage coverage of at least $20,000 for property damage, $50,000 for injury to one person, and $100,000 for injury to more than one person.
Yes. 12 AAC 39.410(b) requires at least one eight-hour continuing education workshop, or an equivalent program, covering the Uniform Mechanical Code for the HVAC and refrigeration categories, during each license period, unless the licensee already passed a qualifying exam that period.
Not automatically. 12 AAC 39.022 allows licensure by credentials, but the division's own form states that passing an exam elsewhere does not guarantee qualification, and Alaska's experience and education requirements for the category still apply.
AS 08.18.028(c) voids the registration 30 days after the next regularly scheduled mechanical administrator examination, unless the company hires a replacement licensed administrator before that deadline.
AS 08.40.380(a) makes a knowing violation a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000. The commissioner can also issue a cease and desist order under AS 08.40.360 or seek an injunction under AS 08.40.370.
Yes. AS 08.40.390(b) excludes mechanical work costing $50,000 or less in communities with a population under 5,000, or more than 50 miles by air or water from a licensed mechanical administrator's place of business, along with several other narrow exclusions.
AS 08.18.051(b) requires the contractor's name, mailing address, and principal place of business address on advertising, contracts, and other business documents, plus the registration number on advertising and contracts specifically. A website that carries all of it can be linked from a shorter ad.
Yes. EPA Section 608 certification is a separate federal requirement for anyone who handles refrigerant, independent of any Alaska state license. Both are required together for work on refrigerant-containing equipment.
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