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Show New rules made to be broken, electricians claim Renouncing what they called "union verbage and an assault on the law, more than 200 independent electricians turned out for the state electrical boards hearing on a new set of regulations last week. And if the rules as they stand become statute; independent electricans say they "will have no alternative but to break the law. About 30 union electricians also attended the meeting, and strongly backed the new regulations for their "increased safety values. Behind closed doors The controversial set of rules, guidelines for the state electrical laws, was created by board members in private meetings at IBEW offices, according to department of business regulation researcher Garry Glenn Carter. The new rules would further delineate the state laws and replace current regulations created by the board. They must be approved by the board and undergo a y waiting period before they become law'. "It w'ont be the law we are an applicant for fighting, masters license, Warren 20-da- Ziegler, charged. "We would be fighting the board. The law is with us, but we have to doubt the boards responsive- ness. Union language Several independents charged the new regulations were replete with union regulations and language. "We have a board of union men sitting in judgement over the entire industry, Owen Free-baiargued at the public hearing. "Their rules cloud the issue of what the state law says. In comparing the new regulations with IBEW local 354s 1977 union agreements, th c Enterprise found similarities in syntax and intent between the two documents as well as simila ities in what the IBEW offers and what the independents are asking for. The IBEW qualifies its and masters journeymen through experience and testing, stating four years experience in the trade is needed prior to an examination which it administers quarterly. The electrical board also requires a minimum of four years experience, provided a certificate of apprenticeship m is submitted for a journey- man's license. A master must produce a BSEE degree and evidence of one years experience, certificate of graduation from trade school and four years experience, or eight years experience under the new regulations. But the new regulations make no mention of how the test required for a license will be given. The test is now administered and independents are asking for what the IBEW already offers - quarterly tests. The independents are also requesting the test be closely monitored and filed at the department of business registration, which has yet to see the test and doesnt know where it is stored. According to Enterprise sources, the test is kept at the office of IBEW agent and electrical board chairman Jack Anderson. freq-quent- ly The IBEW considers the electrical contracting industry as the primary source of experience, while the board is attempting to further define that term, also used in state law, to mean work which is subject to the provisions of the National Electrical Code. Architect recoups fee serve architect agreement An The Enterprise is published weekly by the National Enterprise Publishing Company. Inc., 500 Continental Bank Building. P.O. Box 11778, Pioneer Station, Salt Lake City, Utah 84147. Telephone (801)533-055- 6. Second Class postage paid in Salt Lake City, Utah No. 891300 Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily the opinion or policy ot The Enterprise. Queries welcome. ESASE Subscriptions S24 per year 50 cents per copy Copyright 1978 by the National Enterprise Publishing Co. All rights reserved. reached out of court between Niels Valen-tine- r and the Versant Corporation netted the Salt Lake architect $42,000, Valentiner told the Enterprise last week. The dispute stemmed from a suit Valentiner filed in Third District Court last fall to protect his interest in the Alta Via condominium project which its developers were selling. The settlement represents the fee Valentiner charged for work he did on the The independents balk at the idea. "Contrary to making the industry more safe, this kind of regulation forces people into moonlighting without a license, Alger said. Someone with eight years experience cannot survive on an apprentice wage. Probably the harshest regulation under consideration concerns the one on one Forced to moonlight Ray Alger told the board d he has an apprentice with eight years exd perience in over-qualifie- above-groun- mining because the board currently interprets the law with the National Electrical continued on page 18 Code in mind. 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