Requirements, license levels, and the issuing authority, sourced from Arizona's official board.
Arizona licenses sign work through the Arizona Registrar of Contractors as a contractor classification, C-38 Signs (commercial), R-38 Signs (residential) and CR-38 Signs (dual), and there is no separate Arizona license for an individual sign electrician. The license is held by the contracting business through a qualifying party who meets the experience and examination requirements of A.R.S. 32-1122.
| Requirements | Arizona Administrative Code Title 4, Chapter 9 (Registrar of Contractors) sets the classifications: R4-9-102 lists commercial classifications including C-38 Signs, R4-9-103 lists residential classifications including R-38 Signs, and R4-9-104 lists dual classifications including CR-38 Signs, which allows the scopes of work permitted by the commercial C-38 Signs and the residential R-38 Signs licenses. The C-38 and R-38 scope reads: this classification allows the licensee to install and repair posts, poles, supports, paint, and electrical wiring as required for the licensee to install and repair signs, displays and flagpoles. Under A.R.S. 32-1122 the qualifying party 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 show qualification by written examination taken not more than two years before application if required, and the applicant must submit and maintain the appropriate bond required under the chapter. The Chapter 9 fee schedule sets, for specialty commercial contracting (all C classifications), a $100 application processing fee and a $480 biennial license fee. |
| Reciprocity | Not addressed in the Arizona statutes and rules that could be read for this entry (A.R.S. 32-1121, 32-1122, 32-1124, 32-1125 and Arizona Administrative Code Title 4, Chapter 9). The Registrar's own website could not be retrieved because it is behind a bot-protection wall, so its reciprocity pages were not checked. |
| Renewal | The Arizona Administrative Code Title 4, Chapter 9 fee schedule is written in terms of biennial license fees and biennial license renewal fees, applied in accordance with A.R.S. 32-1123.01, 32-1126 and 32-1132, and it provides that the fee for an annual license granted under A.R.S. 32-1123.01, as an exception to the biennial license renewal requirement, is one half of the biennial license renewal fee. Under A.R.S. 32-1125 a license suspends by operation of law on the next business day following its renewal date if not renewed, and may be reactivated within one year of suspension for a $50 fee in addition to the renewal application fee. |
| Notes | Arizona licenses sign work through the Arizona Registrar of Contractors as a contractor classification, C-38 Signs (commercial), R-38 Signs (residential) and CR-38 Signs (dual), and there is no separate Arizona license for an individual sign electrician. The license is held by the contracting business through a qualifying party who meets the experience and examination requirements of A.R.S. 32-1122. |
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