Registration as certified plant mechanic without examination.
Section 27
SEC. 27. Registration as certified plant mechanic without examination. — No examination shall be required of any person who shall, with his application for registration as certified plant mechanic, submitted to the Board within one year after this Act becomes effective, present evidence or other sufficient proof satisfactory to the Board, showing that, on the date of approval of this Act: (a) He had a specific record of ten years or more of active practice in mechanical plant operation of a character indicating that the applicant is competent to undertake the operation and maintenance of mechanical works, projects or plants of less than two hundred horsepower, has the working knowledge of and can read, write and speak English, Spanish or any of the recognized dialects, and has the first two qualifications specified under section 19 this Act; or (b) He is actually employed at the approval of this Act in the operation of a regularly organized mechanical works, project or plant of less than two hundred horsepower capacity without serious accident as certified by his employer: Provided, however, That his registration will be valid only for the woks, project or plant where he is actually employed.