Section 28-413.2. Qualifications  


Latest version.
  • Applicants  for  a  high-pressure  boiler
      operating engineer license shall present satisfactory proof that:
        1. Applicant was employed as  a  fireman,  oiler,  general  assistant,
      journeyman,  boiler-maker  or  machinist under the direct and continuing
      supervision of a licensed high-pressure boiler operating engineer in the
      city for a period of not less than five  years  within  the  seven  year
      period  preceding  the  date of the application; however, in lieu of the
      experience requirement contained in this paragraph, an applicant  for  a
      high-pressure  boiler  operating  engineer  license who is employed in a
      fossil fuel production plant located in the Rockaway Peninsula  area  of
      Queens  county  may  submit  satisfactory  proof  establishing  that the
      applicant has obtained at least five years experience within  the  seven
      years preceding the date of the application which shall include at least
      two  years of experience obtained during employment under the direct and
      continuing supervision of  a  licensed  high-pressure  boiler  operating
      engineer  in a steam generating plant located outside of the city of New
      York but within the state of New York that is owned and  operated  by  a
      licensed  public  utility  company,  and  shall  also include a separate
      period of at least three years of experience obtained during  employment
      as  a fireman, oiler, general assistant, journeyman, boiler-maker or any
      comparable position as approved  by  the  commissioner,  in  such  steam
      generating plant;
        2.  Applicant  received  a  degree  in  mechanical engineering from an
      accredited school  or  college  and  had  one  year  experience  in  the
      operation  and maintenance of high-pressure boilers under the direct and
      continuing supervision of  a  licensed  high-pressure  boiler  operating
      engineer  in  the  city within the two year period preceding the date of
      the application;
        3. Applicant has held, for a minimum of four years, a  certificate  as
      an  engineer  issued  by a board of examining engineers duly established
      and qualified pursuant to the laws of the United States or any state  or
      territory  thereof,  or a certificate as a marine engineer issued by the
      United States Coast Guard, and a minimum of one year experience  in  the
      city in the operation and maintenance of stationary high pressure boiler
      plants  under  the  direct  and  continuing  supervision  of  a licensed
      high-pressure boiler operating engineer within the seven years preceding
      the date of the application, provided  that  the  applicant  shall  have
      filed with such application a signed statement that the applicant is the
      person  named  in  said  certificate together with the supporting signed
      statements by three licensed high-pressure  boiler  operating  engineers
      employed  in  the  city of New York at the time of making of such signed
      statements;
        4.  Applicant  exercised  direct  and  continuing  supervision,  care,
      operation   and   maintenance   over  a  steam  generating  plant  of  a
      governmental building, having boilers of 150 or more horsepower,  for  a
      minimum  of  five  years  and had a minimum of one year of experience on
      high-pressure boilers under the direct and continuing supervision  of  a
      licensed  high-pressure boiler operating engineer in the city within the
      seven year period preceding the date of the application; or
        5.  Applicant  successfully  completed  a  New  York  state   approved
      apprenticeship  training  program of at least two years and had at least
      three years experience within the seven years preceding the date of  the
      application in the operation and maintenance of high-pressure boilers in
      the  city  under  the  direct  and  continuing supervision of a licensed
      high-pressure boiler operating engineer.