Requirements, license levels, and the issuing authority, sourced from Minnesota's official board.
Minnesota licenses individual elevator constructors through the Department of Labor and Industry, using a tiered ladder that runs from a registered unlicensed elevator constructor through journeyworker to master elevator constructor.
| Requirements | A journeyworker elevator constructor must pass a written examination and must have either completed a four year elevator mechanics apprenticeship registered with the United States Department of Labor, or worked at least 9,000 hours in five consecutive years for a licensed elevator contractor. A master elevator constructor must pass a written examination and must have one year of experience working as a journeyworker elevator constructor, or six years of experience in planning for, laying out, supervising and installing apparatus, equipment and wiring for elevators. The limited journeyworker license requires at least two years of experience and the limited master license three years of experience within the limited elevator scope, each with a written examination. A registered unlicensed elevator constructor must be at least 17 years old, registers with the Department without an examination for a $10 application fee, and must work under the direct supervision of a licensed journeyworker or master elevator constructor. |
| Reciprocity | A reciprocity statute exists but no active agreement is published. Minn. Stat. § 326B.164 subd. 14 provides that the commissioner may enter into reciprocity agreements and issue a personal licence without requiring the applicant to pass an examination. The conditions are that the partner state's programme include an examination plus qualifying experience or training comparable to Minnesota's; that the applicant's out-of-state experience or training be equal to or greater than Minnesota's at the time of licensure; and that the applicant have held the out-of-state licence continuously for at least one year before applying. A lesser Minnesota class may be granted where a greater class was held elsewhere. An applicant is disqualified who failed the same or a greater Minnesota examination, had a same or greater licence revoked or suspended, or let a personal licence lapse for two years or more. The statute is permissive: the Department of Labor and Industry publishes no list of states with a signed elevator constructor reciprocity agreement and no reciprocity application form, unlike its electrical trades which publish both. The department's elevator pages address only crediting verifiable out-of-state work experience toward Minnesota's own experience requirement, which is not an examination waiver. Note that the file named ele_reciprocity.pdf on the department's site is the ELECTRICAL licence reciprocity form and is not an elevator source. |
| Renewal | Master and limited master licenses expire on the last day of February of each odd numbered year. Journeyworker and limited journeyworker licenses renew every two years at the end of the month. The registered unlicensed elevator constructor registration runs one year from the end of the month. Master and journeyworker renewals require 16 hours of DLI approved continuing education, four hours relating to the National Electrical Code and 12 hours of elevator code or elevator technology; limited master and limited journeyworker renewals require eight hours, two hours National Electrical Code and six hours elevator code or technology; the registered unlicensed registration requires two hours. Renewal fees are $65 for master and limited master, $35 for journeyworker and limited journeyworker, and $15 for the registration. |
| Notes | Minnesota licenses individual elevator constructors through the Department of Labor and Industry, using a tiered ladder that runs from a registered unlicensed elevator constructor through journeyworker to master elevator constructor. |
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