Licensing (General)
Arkansas requires a commercial or residential contractor’s license.
Licensing (PV)
An electricians license is required and a state license is required to do any electrical work in Arkansas, including PV. Must be a master electrician or a journeyman electrician under direct supervision of a master electrician.
Licensing (solar thermal)
- A Plumbers license is required. A restricted specialty classification is offered
- Arkansas offers limited licenses for solar thermal installations
- Restricted solar mechanic license: May perform installation and/or maintenance for the purpose of heating domestic hot water
- Supervising solar mechanic license: any person skilled in the planning superintending and practical installation and/or maintenance for the particular phase of solar and hydronic heating and for the purpose of solar heating of domestic hot water
- Solar mechanic trainee means any person who is engaged in learning, acquiring experience and assisting the solar mechanics in order to become a solar mechanic
- Persons holding a restricted solar mechanic plumber’s license for the particular phase of restricted solar mechanic plumbing shall not perform any plumbing service other than the restricted phase for which he is licensed
- Persons holding a restricted solar mechanic plumber’s license shall not be eligible to use experience gained under such license to obtain credit toward other forms of licenses issued by the Department
- Persons holding a restricted solar mechanic plumber’s license shall not transfer a license from one phase of plumbing to any other phase or move from one restricted area to another without first resubmitting a new application to the department
Education/experience requirements
- The applicant for a restricted solar mechanic plumber’s license shall produce evidence of his training and experience in the phase of plumbing for which he is requesting a license
- Applicants for a restricted supervisor solar mechanic plumber’s license shall have a minimum of five (5) years solar mechanic plumbing experience or its equivalent, with a least one (1) year as a licensed restricted solar mechanic plumber
- Applicants for a restricted solar mechanic plumber’s license shall have served four (4) years as a registered restricted solar mechanic apprentice
- Restricted solar mechanic trainees shall register with the department in order to record the training and experience gained under the restricted supervising solar mechanic plumber’s license
Electric code: NEC 2008 edition
Licensing body
Plumbing – Arkansas Department of Health
Electrical – Arkansas Board of Electrical Examiners
Reciprocity: Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi
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