Requirements, license levels, and the issuing authority, sourced from Arizona's official board.
Arizona has no individual fire sprinkler fitter licence: the Registrar of Contractors licenses the contracting business under the C-16, R-16 or CR-16 Fire Protection Systems classifications, with the experience and examination borne by the firm's qualifying party.
| Requirements | Arizona licenses the contracting business, not the individual tradesperson. Arizona Administrative Code R4-9-102 describes the commercial C-16 Fire Protection Systems classification as allowing the licensee to install, alter, and repair fire protection systems using water, steam, gas, or chemicals, including any required excavation, trenching, backfilling and grading, piping from structure, and connections to off-premise water supply adjacent to property involving a fire protection system, and states that systems may include restaurant hood protection systems, fire pumps and drivers, pressure and storage tanks, all piping and valves, sprinkler heads and nozzles, and application of materials for the prevention of corrosion or freezing. R4-9-103 describes the residential R-16 Fire Protection Systems classification as allowing the licensee to install and repair fire prevention and fire protection systems including all mechanical apparatus, devices, piping, and equipment common to the fire protection industry, permitting low voltage signaling systems while requiring all other electrical work to be subcontracted to a properly licensed contractor. R4-9-104 provides that the dual CR-16 Fire Protection Systems classification allows the scopes of work permitted by the commercial C-16 and the residential R-16 licences. Under A.R.S. 32-1122 the licence rests on a qualifying party who must have a minimum of four years' practical or management trade experience, at least two of which must have been within the last ten years, must pass a written examination taken not more than two years before application covering the type of work, building, safety, health and lien laws and construction standards, and the applicant must submit and maintain the appropriate bond required under the chapter. A.A.C. R4-9-106 requires a grade of at least 70 percent on each examination and imposes waiting periods of 30 days after a first failure, 30 days after a second and 90 days after any other failure. |
| Reciprocity | A.A.C. R4-9-106(E) allows the Registrar to waive the trade examination requirement for the qualifying party of a licensee in another state if records reflect that the qualifying party is currently, or has previously been, a qualifying party for a licensee in the other state in the same classification or a comparable classification within the preceding five years. This is in addition to the Registrar's authority under A.R.S. 32-1122(E) to waive the examination for an in-state qualifying party. |
| Renewal | Under A.R.S. 32-1125 a licence is suspended by operation of law on the next business day following its renewal date unless a renewal application with a valid bond or cash deposit on file and the required fee is received or mailed on or before the renewal date. A licence suspended for failure to renew may be reactivated and renewed within one year of suspension by filing the application and paying the renewal fee plus a $50 fee; once suspended for more than a year, a new application and a new licence are required. A.R.S. 32-1124 lets the Registrar establish procedures for a common expiration or renewal date across a licensee's licences. |
| Notes | Arizona has no individual fire sprinkler fitter licence: the Registrar of Contractors licenses the contracting business under the C-16, R-16 or CR-16 Fire Protection Systems classifications, with the experience and examination borne by the firm's qualifying party. |
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