Electrical Lineman

There is no Alabama state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: The Electrical Contractors Act expressly does not apply 'to the installation, construction, or maintenance of power systems for the generation and secondary distribution of electric current constructed under the provisions of the National Electrical Safety Code which regulates the safety requirements of utilities.' This is the standard NESC/utility-line carve-out, so a lineman working on utility transmission/distribution needs no Alabama state credential at all, regardless of where trained or licensed elsewhere.

There is no Arizona state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Arizona does not issue individual journeyman or lineman licenses at all -- ROC licenses only the contracting BUSINESS, and individual electricians (including linemen) work under that contractor license without a personal state credential. Separately, §32-1121(A)(3) Exempts 'public utilities operating under regulation of the corporation commission' from contractor licensure entirely for their own line/utility work. Between the absence of an individual license and the utility exemption, there is no state license for a lineman to reciprocate.

There is no Arkansas state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: The Board of Electrical Examiners' licensing chapter 'Shall not apply to... Construction, installation, maintenance, repair, or renovation by any public utility... By any rural electric association or cooperative, or by any municipally-owned utility, of any transmission or distribution lines or facilities incidental to their business and covered under other nationally recognized safety standards, or to any other such activity when performed by any duly authorized employee, agent, contractor, or subcontractor of any such public utility, association, cooperative, or municipally-owned utility.' This is a broad exemption reaching even contractors/subcontractors doing utility line work, not just direct utility employees, so lineman work is effectively unlicensed at the state level in Arkansas.

There is no California state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 108.2(b) states: 'Certification is not required for work performed by a worker on a high-voltage electrical transmission or distribution system owned by a local publicly owned electric utility... an electrical corporation... [or other listed utility entities].' California's mandatory Electrician Certification (General Electrician, Residential Electrician, etc.) applies only to workers for C-10 electrical CONTRACTORS; utility-owned transmission/distribution line work is carved out entirely, so there is no state credential for a lineman working that system to reciprocate.

There is no Colorado state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 12-115-116(1) Exempts 'employees of public service corporations, rural electrification associations, or municipal utilities generating, distributing, or selling electrical energy for light, heat, or power... shall not be required to hold licenses while doing electrical work for those purposes.' Colorado does license journeyman/master electricians generally (with reciprocity conditions at 3 CCR 710-1, e.g. No reciprocity for the master license), but that licensing scheme does not reach utility-employed linemen at all because of this exemption.

There is no Delaware state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 1419(a)(4) Exempts 'any electric light or power company... whose rates and services are regulated by the Delaware Public Service Commission, or any person performing the electrical work of such company or utility, when such work is a part of the plant or services used by the company in rendering its authorized service to the public' from the Board of Electrical Examiners' certificate-of-inspection/licensing requirements. This reaches both direct utility employees and persons performing the utility'S authorized work, so lineman work carries no Delaware state license to reciprocate.

There is no Georgia state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 43-14-13(h) provides: 'This chapter shall not apply to the installation, construction, or maintenance of power systems or telecommunication systems for the generation or distribution of electric current constructed under the National Electrical Safety Code, which regulates the safety requirements of utilities.' This exempts lineman-type line-construction/distribution work outright from Georgia's electrical-contractor and utility-contractor licensing chapter (interior wiring past the meter remains licensed, but that is not lineman work). Note Georgia'S separate Utility Contractor/Utility Manager/Utility Foreman credentials (created by §43-14-8.2/-8.4) exist primarily for underground utility/pipeline-type work, not overhead power line construction, which sits outside the chapter altogether per (h).

There is no Hawaii state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: No Hawaii licence applies to a lineman today, but that is scheduled to change. Act 183 of 1971 exempted employees of a public utility performing electric utility work from electrician licensing entirely, and a further limited exemption — Act 65 of 2013, made permanent by a 2022 act — extended the same treatment to electrical-contractor employees retained by a public utility to do high-voltage lineman work. Between them there is currently no state licence for a lineman to hold. Legislation passed in 2024, following the Maui wildfires, will establish a mandatory 'journey worker electric utility lineman' licence beginning 1 January 2027, expanding the Board of Electricians and Plumbers to cover electric utility work and repealing the exemption. If you are reading this close to or after that date, check the Board's website — this answer changes materially.

There is no Illinois state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Illinois is one of a small number of states with no statewide individual electrician license - not for general electricians, and not for linemen. Licensing is handled entirely by individual cities and counties (e.g., Chicago's Supervising Electrician license), and 'Reciprocity' between jurisdictions is a matter of local, not state, policy. There is accordingly no state-level license for a lineman to hold or reciprocate; any reciprocity question would have to be answered municipality-by-municipality, which is outside the scope of a state-level brief.

There is no Indiana state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Indiana's electrical licensing structure is split: IPLA issues a statewide Electrical Contractor license for the business/qualifying individual, but there is no single statewide journeyman or lineman license - that is handled entirely by individual cities and counties (Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, etc.), each with its own exam and reciprocity policy. Since no state-level individual lineman license exists, there is no state reciprocity question to answer; utility employees performing their own line work would in any case fall outside most municipal electrician-licensing ordinances, which are typically scoped to premises wiring.

There is no Iowa state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 103.22(2) Provides the licensing chapter does not 'Require employees of municipal utilities, electric membership or cooperative associations, investor-owned utilities, rural water associations or districts, railroads, telecommunications companies, franchised cable television operators, farms, or commercial or industrial companies performing manufacturing, installation, and repair work for such employer to hold licenses while acting within the scope of their employment.' This fully exempts utility-employed linemen from Iowa's otherwise robust state electrician licensing and reciprocity system (which does have real state-to-state agreements, e.g. With Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota and others, for the general journeyman/master licenses) - but that reciprocity system is simply never reached for utility line work.

There is no Kansas state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: There is no state-level licensing of electricians or electrical contractors in Kansas. While the state legislature sets minimum training/experience floors that local boards must honor when they choose to license (K.S.A. 12-1526), the license itself, and any reciprocity with other jurisdictions, is set entirely at the city/county level. There is accordingly no state-level lineman license or reciprocity question to answer.

There is no Kentucky state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: KRS 227.460 provides that the electrical licensing chapter 'shall not apply to installations under the exclusive control of electric utilities for the purpose of communication, metering, or for the generation, control, transformation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy located in buildings used exclusively by utilities for such purposes or located outdoors on property owned or leased by the utility or on public highways, streets or roads, or outdoors by established rights on private property.' This exempts utility lineman work outright. Kentucky's general Electrician/Master Electrician license does have real reciprocity, including agreements with Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia, but that reciprocity is never reached for lineman work because the underlying activity is exempt from licensing altogether.

There is no Louisiana state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: The Louisiana Contractors Licensing Law exempts 'Any public utility providing gas, electric, or telephone service which is subject to regulation by the Louisiana [Public Service] Commission or the council of the city of New Orleans, or to any work performed by the public utility in furnishing its [service]' from the entire licensing chapter. Combined with the fact that Louisiana has no statewide individual journeyman/lineman license at all (only local parish/city journeyman licenses and a state Electrical Contractor license for the business), utility line work carries no Louisiana state license to reciprocate.

There is no Maine state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Maine took the unusual step of passing EMERGENCY legislation specifically to clear up ambiguity on this point after the Electricians' Examining Board began requiring licensure of lineworkers, which the Legislature found would 'Substantially interfere with the ability of public utilities, electricity generators and their contractors to safely and cost-effectively install electric lines... Including lines for large transmission and distribution projects.' The resulting law exempts, under 1102(1-C), 'An entity, including all employees of such an entity, to the extent the entity has contracted with a public utility or generator... To perform services for the public utility or generator, but only to the extent the public utility or generator would be exempt from this chapter if it were performing the services directly through its employees.' This covers both direct utility employees and their line contractors, so lineman work carries no Maine state electrician license to reciprocate.

There is no Maryland state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 6-303(b) provides the electrician licensing subtitle does not require 'a public utility company to employ a master electrician to represent the company while the company is engaging in the business of providing electrical services to a facility of the company that... is regulated by the Public Service Commission... and is located on any premises, roadway, or right-of-way in which the company has a lawful interest.' This exempts utility lineman work from Maryland's Board of Electricians licensing scheme entirely. Maryland'S general electrician license does have real reciprocity agreements - with Washington D.C., West Virginia, Virginia and Delaware, letting a Master Electrician skip the exam - but that reciprocity is never reached for lineman/utility work because the work is exempt from licensure in the first place.

There is no Massachusetts state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 7 provides the electrician-licensing chapter 'shall not apply to... the work in connection with the erection, construction, maintenance or repair of lines for transmission of electricity from the source of supply to the service switch on the premises where used by municipal electric plants, by electric companies as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four... the work of such plants or companies on premises owned or controlled by them.' This is the standard utility line-work carve-out, exempting lineman work from Massachusetts electrician licensing - and therefore from its otherwise-real reciprocity mechanism at M.G.L. C. 141, 2B, which lets the examiners license without exam a person licensed elsewhere under substantially similar standards, but which is never reached for line work because it is exempt in the first place.

There is no Michigan state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 339.5737(3)(d) exempts 'the installation, alteration, or repair of electrical wiring for the generation and primary distribution of electric current, or the secondary distribution system up to and including the meters, if that work is an integral part of the system owned and operated by an electric light and power utility in rendering its duly authorized service.' This exempts lineman/utility-line work from Michigan's Skilled Trades Regulation Act electrical licensing entirely.

There is no Mississippi state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Mississippi does not issue an individual state-level journeyman or lineman electrician licence - that is handled city by city (Jackson, Hattiesburg, Tupelo, Gulfport, Biloxi and others), each with its own rules. The MSBOC's Electrical classification licenses the contractor business for commercial projects of $50,000+ (or $5,000+ for certain hazardous/specialty work), with a genuine trade-exam waiver available on reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and South Carolina contractor boards (Mississippi Law and Business exam always required). That contractor-level reciprocity does not translate into a state credential for an individual lineman, since no such individual state licence exists to reciprocate.

There is no Missouri state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: An independent legal reference states plainly: 'Work on utility distribution infrastructure above the service entrance is not governed by state electrical licensing - that falls under the authority of the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) and federal jurisdiction.' Combined with the fact that Missouri has no statewide mandatory individual electrician licence at all (only an optional statewide contractor licence through the Division of Professional Registration, plus local municipal journeyman/master licensing), there is no Missouri state licence for a lineman to reciprocate.

There is no Nebraska state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Nebraska exempts utility employees from electrical licensing. Section 81-2121(1) Says the State Electrical Act shall not be construed to 'Require employees of municipal corporations, public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, electric membership or cooperative associations, public utility corporations, railroads, telephone or telegraph companies, or commercial or industrial companies performing manufacturing, installation, and repair work for such employer to hold licenses while acting within the scope of their employment.' Section 81-2132 mirrors it for inspection purposes. That reaches the full range of Nebraska electric utility types — investor-owned, public power district, cooperative and municipal alike. One limit matters a great deal depending on who your employer is: the exemption covers employees acting within the scope of employment for that utility. It does not on its face extend to a third-party contractor hired by the utility, unlike Texas, whose statute explicitly includes contractors. If you work for a line-construction contractor rather than the utility itself, that distinction is the whole question.

There is no Nevada state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 624.031(3) Exempts 'Work performed exclusively by a public utility operating pursuant to the regulations of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada on construction, maintenance and development work incidental to its business' from the entire Contractors chapter. This exempts utility-employed lineman work from Nevada contractor/electrical licensing outright. A third-party electrical contractor doing line-construction work under contract to a utility would still need the C-2 electrical contractor's licence, and its individual electrician employees a journeyman/apprentice card from the Department of Business and Industry, but that is a different scenario from the utility'S own workforce.

There is no New Hampshire state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: New Hampshire exempts utility work from electrician licensing, and its exemption is unusually broad. RSA 319-C:3 says the chapter does not apply to 'I. Any person, or any affiliate or employee of such person, under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission of this state, or the Federal Communications Commission, or the Interstate Commerce Commission, or any employee of such person, for the purpose of making electrical installations in the course of such employment. II. The electrical work and equipment employed in connection with the construction, installation, operation, repair or maintenance of any utility by a utility company in rendering its authorized service, or in any way incidental thereto.' Paragraph II is the wide one: it exempts utility-company work 'incidental' to authorised service generally, rather than only named employees, which plausibly reaches contractors doing that work on the utility'S behalf — though that was not tested against a specific contractor scenario. New Hampshire does maintain a separate high and medium voltage electrician licence under RSA 319-C:2 III-a and III-b and 319-C:7 II-a, for installations on power distribution systems above 600 volts. But because utility-company line work is independently exempt, that category serves private and industrial high-voltage work outside utility ownership rather than utility linemen.

There is no New Jersey state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: N.J.S.A. 45:5A-18, which lists work not included 'within the business of electrical contracting so as to require the securing of a business permit under this act,' provides at (e): 'Municipal plants or any public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13, organized for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating works for the generation, supplying, transmission and distribution of electricity for electric light, heat, or power,' and at (f): 'A public utility subject to regulation, supervision or control by a federal regulatory body, or a public utility operating under the authority [of interstate compact/similar federal frameworks].' N.J.S.A. 45:5A is the single Act covering both business-permit contractor licensure and individual Class A journeyman licensure at 45:5A-11.1, so this carve-out removes utility-owned generation/transmission/distribution work from the scheme entirely for the utility's own operations.

There is no New Mexico state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Section 60-13-3(3) Exempts 'a public utility or rural electric cooperative that constructs, reconstructs, operates or maintains its plant or renders authorized service by the installation, alteration or repair of facilities, up to and including the meters, which facilities are an integral part of the operational system of the public utility or rural electric cooperative' from the definition of 'contractor' under the Construction Industries Licensing Act entirely. This exempts utility lineman work from New Mexico'S electrical licensing and from its otherwise-genuine multi-state journeyman reciprocity group (Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), which is never reached for line work because that work is exempt from licensure altogether.

There is no New York state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: New York is one of the states with no statewide individual electrician licence - licensing, including for line work, is entirely municipal. NYC Department of Buildings issues Master and Special Electrician licences; other cities run their own programmes. There is accordingly no state-level lineman licence or reciprocity question to answer; any such question would need evaluating municipality by municipality, outside the scope of state-level licensing.

There is no North Carolina state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: G.S. 87-43.1(1) Verbatim: the Article's licensing requirement does not apply '[t]o the installation, construction or maintenance of facilities for providing electric service to the public ahead of the point of delivery of electric service to the customer.' 'Ahead of the point of delivery' is standard utility terminology for generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure up to the customer's meter - precisely the scope of outside lineman work. This is a general FACILITIES-based exemption rather than an employee-based one, so it plausibly also reaches contractors building or maintaining that pre-delivery infrastructure on a utility'S behalf. G.S. 87-43.1(9), a separate narrower provision, additionally exempts load-control-device work by electric power suppliers or their contractors on the customer side.

There is no North Dakota state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: North Dakota exempts utility employees from electrical licensing. NDCC 43-09-16(1) Lists among those 'not required to be licensed by and are not subject to regulation by the board': 'Employees of public utilities engaged in the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy while engaged in work directly pertaining to the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy. This exemption terminates at the first point of service attachment, except for the installing or testing of electric meters and measuring devices and the maintenance of electric meters and measuring devices.' That squarely covers generation and distribution line work up to the point of service. As in Nebraska, it is limited to utility employees rather than third-party contractors doing the same work on the utility's behalf — the statute simply does not address that case.

There is no Ohio state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Ohio's electrical licensing is split: OCILB issues a genuine, reciprocity-eligible statewide Electrical Contractor licence for commercial/industrial work under R.C. 4740.08, on a mutual substantially-equal-requirements basis, but individual journeyman and apprentice electricians are licensed entirely at municipal level under Ohio'S home-rule authority, with no statewide individual credential. Given the absence of both a state-level individual lineman licence and any confirmed utility exemption specific to lineman work, this is recorded as no applicable state-level licence; utility line work would in any case typically fall outside municipal electrician ordinances scoped to premises wiring.

There is no Oklahoma state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Oklahoma's utility carve-out is one of the broader ones, because it exempts the utility rather than merely its employees. Section 1692(A) says 'The provisions of the Electrical License Act shall not apply to:... 3. The construction, installation, maintenance, repair and renovation by a public utility regulated by the Corporation Commission; 4. Public service corporations, telephone and telegraph companies, rural electric associations or municipal utilities.' Because it attaches to the entity, it covers investor-owned utilities regulated by the Corporation Commission, rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities alike — wider than the employee-only formulations in Nebraska and North Dakota.

There is no Oregon state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Oregon splits, and the split is worth understanding before you assume either way. Municipal utility lines are flatly exempt: OAR 918-261-0030(1) Creates 'an exemption from the requirements of the Electrical Specialty Code, for permits, compliance inspections, licenses or product certification for overhead and underground electrical power lines for transmission or distribution of electricity to the point of service and related equipment owned or operated by a municipality.' Investor-owned and private utility lines are not flatly exempt. OAR 918-261-0030(2) Provides that such lines 'owned or operated by a private party that is not a utility or municipality, and utilities who contract to manage private systems are regulated by' the electrical code — the full text of that clause was only partially retrievable. Instead ORS 479.540 supplies a narrower mechanism: an 'outdoor transmission or distribution system... similar to a system provided by a public utility' may be installed or maintained by a 'qualified employee', meaning a registered apprentice-level worker rather than an individually licensed one, of a licensed electrical contractor principally engaged in that business. The practical upshot: no individual lineman licence is required for either municipal or investor-owned utility line work in Oregon, so nothing personal transfers between states. But that rests on your employer holding a contractor licence rather than on a clean statutory carve-out for you.

There is no Pennsylvania state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Multiple independent sources confirm Pennsylvania does not issue a statewide electrician licence of any kind - licensing at journeyperson, master and contractor level is handled entirely by local municipalities, with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh each running separate programmes, and there is no state board or state-level reciprocity mechanism. There is accordingly no state-level lineman licence or reciprocity question to answer.

There is no Rhode Island state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: A utility carve-out exists. 5-6-29(1) Verbatim: the chapter does not apply to 'the electrical work and equipment for the generation and primary distribution of electric current, or the secondary distribution system up to and including the meters, where that work and equipment is an integral part of the system owned and operated by an electric light and power company in rendering its authorized service.' Covers the full generation-through-meter scope of outside lineman work for Rhode Island-regulated electric utilities. Note this is near-identical wording to Michigan's MCL 339.5737(3)(d) and Massachusetts'S M.G.L. C. 141 s.7 - a shared drafting lineage across New England and the Midwest.

There is no South Carolina state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: South Carolina does not mandatorily license individual electricians at state level - the Municipal Association of South Carolina's journeyman/master certifications serve as the qualifying credential for the state Licensing Board for Contractors' electrical contractor licence, which does have genuine reciprocity: exam waived for journeyman-equivalent licences from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio or Pennsylvania, or master-equivalent from Texas or Utah. Since there is no mandatory individual lineman licence at state level, there is no state licence for a lineman specifically to reciprocate, independent of the contractor-level reciprocity that exists for the business credential.

There is no South Dakota state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: South Dakota exempts utility line work, in a formulation that appears to reach contractors as well as employees. SDCL 36-16-16(1) Exempts 'An employee of a utility engaged in the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy if engaged in work directly pertaining to the manufacture and distribution of electrical energy, or a person that is engaged in work pertaining directly to such services if the work is designed, supervised, or installed by a person qualified in the work being done. This exemption terminates at the first point of service attachment, except for the installing or testing of electric meters and measuring devices and the maintenance of their service.' That second clause — 'or a person... designed, supervised, or installed by a person qualified' — is broader than a pure employee exemption and plausibly covers contractors. One note on sourcing: the state legislature's chapter index confirms this section exists with this exact caption, but the section'S own full-text page would not load, so the wording above comes from a mirror rather than the state's own server. Treat the citation as unconfirmed even though the substance is not in doubt.

There is no Utah state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Utah exempts utility employees from electrician licensing. Section 58-55-305(1)(m) exempts 'a person who ordinarily would be subject to the electrician licensure requirements under this chapter when employed by: (i) railroad corporations, telephone corporations or their corporate affiliates, elevator contractors or constructors, or street railway systems; or (ii) public service corporations, rural electrification associations, or municipal utilities who generate, distribute, or sell electrical energy for light, heat, or power.' That covers investor-owned, cooperative and municipal utility employees alike. It is limited to people employed by the utility, rather than third-party contractors working on its behalf — the text does not address that case.

There is no Vermont state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: A utility carve-out exists. 882(1) Verbatim: the chapter does not apply to 'the construction, installation, operation, repair, or maintenance of electrical installations that are used by a public utility in rendering its authorized service.' Broad, entity-neutral phrasing - 'used by a public utility' rather than 'employees of' - so it plausibly reaches contractors performing that work on the utility's behalf.

There is no Washington state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: RCW 19.28.091(1) Verbatim, per the AG's own quotation: 'No licenses shall be required... Because of work in connection with the installation, repair, or maintenance of lines, wires, apparatus, or equipment owned by or under the control of a utility and used for transmission or distribution of electricity from the source of supply to the point of contact at the premises and/or property to be supplied.' A 1990s AG opinion parsed the exemption'S scope by both the identity of the performing party and the nature of the work; subsection (3) Further confirms a licensed contractor 'may enter into a contract with a utility for the performance of work under subsection (2)' - implying licensed contractors can also do this work, without resolving whether they must be licensed for it.

There is no Wisconsin state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Wisconsin's utility carve-out is the broadest of these states, because it names contractors outright instead of only employees. Section 101.862(4)(i) exempts 'A person employed by an electricity provider, or a SUBCONTRACTOR of an electricity provider, who installs, repairs, or maintains electrical wiring for equipment that is installed in the normal course of providing utility services by the electricity provider.' Subsection (k) separately exempts work on 'Electric lines on the utility side of substations and other distribution facilities'. Subsection (L) exempts employees or subcontractors of an electricity provider installing, repairing or maintaining 'Primary voltage electric facilities... That operate at greater than 600 volts' owned by the provider'S customers or members. Wisconsin and Texas are the two states that answer the contractor question explicitly. Most others leave it open, which matters if you work for a line-construction contractor rather than the utility.

There is no Wyoming state licence for this trade to reciprocate. Local rules may still apply.

What applies instead: Wyoming exempts utility line work from electrical licensing. Section 35-9-123(a)(iii) waives the licensed-electrician installation requirement for 'Liquefied petroleum, gas, electric or communication facilities exercising their function as public utilities.' So there is no Wyoming licence for a lineman working in utility employment to transfer in the first place. Wyoming's general electrician licences do have reported reciprocity with roughly five other states, but utility line work never reaches it, because that work is exempt from licensure to begin with.