Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

Any licensee or private detective shall deliver to the local licensing authority, or its designee, a bond with a surety company authorized to do business in the state conditioned for the benefit of any person injured by willful, malicious, or wrongful acts of the licensee, which,…

It is unlawful for any person to knowingly commit any of the following: (1) Provide any service required to be licensed under this chapter without possessing a valid license; (2) Employ any individual to perform the duties of an unarmed employee or armed employee who has not firs…

The local licensing authority shall prescribe by regulation the form of identification cards that may be carried by persons licensed under this chapter. Every person licensed under this chapter shall be given a permanent licensed number and shall be issued an identification card …

Any licensee shall, on notice from the local licensing authority, discontinue any advertising or the use of any advertisement, seal, or card that, in the opinion of the local licensing authority, tends to mislead the public. Failure to comply with that order of the local licensin…

(a) Any person aggrieved by a final decision or order of the local licensing authority made after a hearing or rehearing, whether or not a petition for a hearing was filed, may obtain judicial review of the decision by appeal to the superior court in accordance with chapter 35 of…

All felonies that are discovered by persons licensed and registered under this chapter shall be reported immediately to the Rhode Island state police, private investigative unit, or to the local police department where the crime occurred.

As used in this chapter: (1) “Applicant” means any person who has applied for permission to engage in any act or activity that is regulated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) “Computer forensic specialist” means a person who holds a professional certification as a co…

(a) Nothing in this chapter includes the activities of any person employed by any federal or state agency or any city or town as an investigator. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require a detective’s license in order to interview parties and/or witnesses in legal ma…

Whoever without a license engages in the general business of a private detective, or holds him or herself out as a private detective, or pretends to be a detective police officer, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than five hundred d…

In order to be eligible for a license, an applicant must: (1) Be a citizen of the United States or a resident alien; (2) Not have been convicted in any jurisdiction of a felony; (3) Not have had any previous private investigator license or registration revoked or application for …

Any person engaged as a private detective prior to January 1, 1988, and who continues to be engaged as of January 1, 1988, may apply for a private detective license with the local licensing authority where his or her principal place of business is located. Persons presently licen…

After an examination of the application and any further inquiry and investigation that is deemed proper and necessary as to the good character, competency, and integrity of the applicant and the persons named in the application, the local licensing authority shall as soon as prac…

The local licensing authority shall deny the application for or renewal of license if it finds that the applicant: (1) Has violated any provisions of this chapter or rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter; or (2) In the case of the applicant, commits any act that wo…

The local licensing authority, in approving or denying an application for a license or renewal of a license, shall proceed as follows: (1) If the application is approved, the local licensing authority shall issue a license in the form provided in this chapter; (2) If the applicat…

Each license shall expire one year after its date of issuance. Subject to the power of the local licensing authority to deny, revoke, or suspend a license, any license shall be renewable by the local licensing authority for the next one-year period upon proper application for ren…

(a) The registration and license fee for a private detective is one hundred fifty dollars ($150) annually. (b) No license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be assigned or transferred, either by operation of law or otherwise. (c) With good cause, the local li…

For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Burner contractor” means a corporation, firm, or person, who or that, by the employment of oil burnerpersons, performs the work of installing and servicing domestic heating equipment, including central heating plants and domestic-type range burn…

A Certificate C shall be issued to the department of transportation, state airport corporation, and manufacturing and industrial firms that regularly employ one or more Class B or Class M journeyperson electricians for installation and when the work performed by those individuals…

A Certificate D shall be issued to municipalities, schools, hospitals, colleges, or other non-manufacturing firms or establishments that regularly employ one or more licensed electricians (journeyperson/Class B or Class M) when the work performed by those individuals is limited t…

A certificate M is granted to any person who has passed an examination before the division of professional regulation, and who is regularly employed by a Rhode Island Class C or Class D license holder as specified in §§ 5-6-10 and 5-6-10.1. The certificate specifies the name of t…

(a) A Certificate PC shall be issued to public institutions of higher educations that regularly employ one or more Class B journeyperson electricians when the work performed by those individuals is limited to the replacement, retrofit, upgrade, maintenance, repair, and/or minor a…

(a) Burnerperson’s license. A Certificate F shall be granted to any person who has passed an examination before the division of professional regulation. The certificate shall specify the name of the person authorized to install, work on, and repair electric wiring and equipment l…

“Certificate B” applies to all electrical work including the installation of fire alarm and life safety communications systems and electrical signs.

(a) Except as provided in § 5-6-14, a holder of a Certificate B is not entitled to do any work of installing, maintaining, servicing, and testing wires, conduits, apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances for carrying or using electricity for light, heat, or power purposes except …

Electricians regularly employed by firms or holders of a Certificate C may install and maintain any electrical wiring, conduits, and appliances, or make any repairs that are required in and on the property of those firms; provided, that a permit has been approved and issued by th…

Any person applying for a license and making any misstatement as to his or her experience or other qualifications, or any person, firm, or corporation subscribing to, or vouching for, any misstatement, shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in § 5-6-32.

(a) All licenses issued by the division of professional regulation for master electricians, all limited-license electricians, and all journeyperson electricians born in odd years shall expire on the birthday of the individual qualifying for the license in odd years and all licens…

Persons desiring an examination shall make written application on the state-approved form for the examination accompanied by the proper fee, which is seventy-five dollars ($75.00).

Examination papers and applications for certificates under the provisions of this chapter shall be preserved for at least three (3) years, after which time they may, at the discretion of the division of professional regulation, be destroyed.

(a) Holders of Licenses B, F, BF, CF, M, A, E, AF, SCF, LPC, and LPI shall be furnished by the division of professional regulation with evidence of having been licensed in card form or otherwise, which shall be carried on the person of the licensee and exhibited on request. (b) A…

(a)(1) No person, firm, or corporation shall enter into, engage in, solicit, advertise, bid for, or work at the business of installing, maintaining, servicing, and testing wires, conduits, apparatus, which includes support systems specifically for electrical equipment and devices…

(a) The division of professional regulation by and through its electrical investigators or designees has the right and authority to enter, during times at which electrical work is actually being performed on any commercial building, structure, or premises where electrical work is…

(a) All certificates and/or licenses issued by the division of professional regulation expire on the birthday of the individual qualifying for the certificate and/or license and may be renewed on or after that date for a period of two (2) years upon payment of the appropriate ren…

(a) On or before January 1, 1996, the board of examiners of electricians shall, by regulation, establish a mandatory continuing education program for all persons licensed under this chapter. The program is designed to ensure current competency in each licensee’s area of certifica…

(a) Any certificate expiring while the holder of the certificate is in the military, naval, or air service of the United States shall be renewed without further examination, upon payment of the prescribed fee, at any time within four (4) months after that person’s discharge from …

Records of the meetings of the board of examiners of electricians shall be open for inspection at all times, and the division of professional regulation, with the assistance of the board, shall have printed annually a manual of its regulations, including the names of all licensee…

No certificates issued under this chapter shall be assignable or transferable. Certificates issued under this chapter may, after a hearing before and upon the recommendation of the board of examiners of electricians, be suspended or revoked by the director of labor and training, …

(a) This chapter does not forbid the employment of one properly registered apprentice electrician working with and under the direct personal supervision of an appropriately licensed journeyperson electrician. Additionally, this chapter does not forbid the employment of: (1) One p…

Prior to being permitted to work as an electrician’s apprentice in this state, any apprentice electrician registered by another registration agency in a neighboring state shall obtain reciprocal recognition from the Rhode Island department of labor and training pursuant to § 28-4…

To be eligible applicants for electrical licensing exams, apprentices shall complete an applicable registered apprenticeship program in Rhode Island. Apprentices shall provide transcripts of completed related instruction and work record books from employer(s), or other reasonably…

(a) For licensing purposes, decisions by an apprenticeship sponsor to grant credit for prior learning or experience pursuant to § 28-45-9(2)(xii) or § 28-45-9.2 shall also require the written approval of the state board of examiners of electricians of the Rhode Island department …

All electrical work covered in this chapter that is done in the state of Rhode Island and/or any city or town having rules and requirements for that work shall be done in accordance with those rules and requirements. Failure of any licensee to do that work in that manner, or his …

All electrical work shall be done in accordance with any rules and requirements that are specified by the division of professional regulation, or subject to its approval, by the public utilities having authority to supply electricity in the place where the work is done. Any rules…

The division shall report annually to the general assembly in the month of January a detailed statement of its receipts and disbursements during the year with a statement of its acts and proceedings and any recommendations that the division deems proper. All proceeds of any fees …

Any person, firm, association, corporation, or employee of any person, firm, association, or corporation, and any representative, member, or officer of any firm, association, or corporation individually entering upon or engaging in the previously defined business and work, withou…

(a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to: (1) The electrical work and equipment for the generation and primary distribution of electric current, or the secondary distribution system up to and including the meters, where that work and equipment is an integral part of the…