(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), no person may engage in the business of providing electrical services for compensation in the County unless properly licensed by the State Board of Electricians..
(b) Any person who installs, repairs, or maintains branch circuits as defined in the National Electric Code, in a detached single-family residence which that person or a member of the person’s immediate family owns, for the person’s or immediate family’s use, is not required to hold an electrical license, provided the electrical services are not performed for compensation. Before any electrical work is performed, the owner of the residence must apply to the Director for a permit if a permit is otherwise required by this Chapter.
(1974 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 1; 1977 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 6; 1982 L.M.C., ch. 55, § 1; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1; 2022 L.M.C., ch. 32, §1.)
Editor’s note—The above section is quoted and interpreted in United Electric Supply Co. v. Greencastle Gardens Section III Limited Partnership, 36 Md. App. 70, 373 A.2d 42 (1977).
Formerly Section 17-19.