Requirements, license levels, and the issuing authority, sourced from Arkansas's official board.
Statewide licensing via Board of Electrical Examiners.
| Requirements | Applicants apply to take the electrical exam via the online portal; the Board sets experience standards for each class and registers apprentices. Specific hour figures not stated on the official page fetched. |
| Reciprocity | Reciprocal agreements for journeyman and master licenses with: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin. |
| Renewal | Annual. Ark. Code § 17-28-301(b)(1)-(2) provides that licenses expire on the date indicated on the license and may be renewed for a period of one year, with fees set per year by class. Continuing education: Ark. Code § 17-28-311(a) requires a journeyman electrician, residential journeyman electrician, master electrician or residential master electrician licensee to complete at least eight (8) hours of continuing education for the current National Electrical Code cycle in the first year of each new code cycle before renewing. Board rule 17 CAR § 210-1202 requires all eight hours to be Board-approved instruction relating specifically to the National Electrical Code; no other subject area is mandated. A licensee who simultaneously holds an electrical inspector license is exempt from continuing education under § 17-28-301(a)(6)(B). Annual fees under § 17-28-301 are $50.00 for master electrician and residential master electrician, and $25.00 for journeyman electrician, industrial maintenance electrician, residential journeyman electrician and specialist sign electrician (with parking-lot endorsement). Late renewal costs one year's fee plus $10 per calendar month late; a lapse of more than 36 months requires retaking the examination plus a $1,000 penalty. |
| Notes | Statewide licensing via Board of Electrical Examiners. |
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Sources: labor.arkansas.gov, labor.arkansas.gov, codeofarrules.arkansas.gov. Always confirm current requirements with the issuing authority.
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