Effective January 1st, 2006, the only persons who may perform work as general electrician, residential electrician or fire/life safety technicians for contractors licensed as Class C-10 electrical contrators and make electrical connections over 100 volt-ampers are those who have been certified by the State of California, or are an apprentice registered in a state approved electrical apprenticeship program, or a worker who has registered as an electrician trainee and is enrolled in a state approved electrician trainee program.
If you are a 4th Year Apprentice at ABC, we highly recommend that you register to take this exam before you graduate. There is a groundswell of employers that will make you stay off the jobsite until you have become certified, and once you graduate from our apprenticeship program, if you haven't taken the exam or do not have a date to take the exam, YOU CANNOT WORK. That's the law.
As of January 1, 2006, an electrician must either have passed the state exam or be registered with the state and enrolled in a state approved apprenticeship electrician trainee program or indentured in a state approved apprenticeship program, in order to continue working legally in the State of California.