Required Licensed Electrical Practitioners in every electric plant, industrial plant or factory, commercial establishment, institutional building, watercraft, electric locomotive or in any other installation where persons and properties are exposed to electrical hazards shall not have less than the following complement of Professional Electrical Engineer, Registered Electrical Engineer, and Registered Master Electricians:
Electric Plants
- Electric plants with total installed generating capacity of any size and employing voltages of any standard rating;
- one (1) Professional Electrical Engineer or
- one (1) Registered Electrical Engineer
- one (1) Registered Master Electrician – For capacities up to five hundred-kilovolt amperes (500 Kva) and employing voltages of up to six hundred volts (600 V)
Industrial Plants, Factories, Commercial Establishments, and Institutional Buildings
- Industrial plants or factories, commercial establishments, or institutional buildings having a connected Kva load of any size and employing voltages of any standard rating;
- one (1) Professional Electrical Engineer or
- one (1) Registered Electrical Engineer
- one (1) Registered Master Electrician – For capacities up to five hundred-kilovolt amperes (500 Kva) and employing voltages of up to six hundred volts (600 V)
Watercrafts or Electric Locomotives
- Watercrafts or electric locomotives with installed generating capacity up to the maximum size and voltage available for these units;
- one (1) Professional Electrical Engineer or
- one (1) Registered Electrical Engineer
- one (1) Registered Master Electrician – For capacities up to five hundred-kilovolt amperes (500 Kva) and employing voltages of up to six hundred volts (600 V)
Provided, however, That in all the aforementioned cases, additional qualified personnel shall be employed to ensure safe operation and safeguard public welfare, life and property: Provided, further, That when the operation requires more than one shift of personnel every twenty-four (24) hours, the minimum complement of qualified personnel shall be employed in each shift.
For installation which has a connected load of fifty kilovolt-amperes (50 Kva) or less and employs voltages of not more than two hundred fifty volts (250 v) and for installations which are designed to be automatic and do not require resident personnel for their safe operation: Provided, however, That their maintenance and repair shall be under the charge of a duly registered personnel: Provided, further, That a yearly inspection will be conducted and certified to be in a safe operating condition by a Professional Electrical Engineer, a Registered Electrical Engineer, or a Registered Master Electrician.
