Applicants must have four(4) years of verifiable experience. Pre-Approval is required.
Applicants are required to take the Business Law exam in addition to the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration exam.
Arizona Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (Residential/Commercial)-
This classification allows the licensee to install and repair comfort air conditioning systems, including refrigeration, evaporative cooling, ventilating, and heating with or without solar equipment. Installation and repair of machinery, units, accessories, refrigerator rooms, and insulated refrigerator spaces, and controls in refrigerators.
If necessary, a new circuit may be added to the existing service panel or sub-panel. Excluded is the installation of a new service panel or sub-panel. This scope includes all R-39R subclassifications.
R-39R Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
R-39R Temperature Control Systems
R-39R Warm Air Heating, Evaporative Cooling and Ventilating
R-39R Evaporative Cooling and Ventilators
Upon the effective date of these rules, no new applications for the R-39R Gas Refrigeration, Temperature Control Systems, Warm Air Heating, Evaporative Cooling and Ventilating, Evaporative Cooling and Ventilators, and Pre-Coolers license classifications will be accepted and no new R-39R licenses in these classifications will be issued.
Registrar of Contractors
1700 West Washington St. Ste.105
Phoenix, AZ 85007
(602)542-1525
www.rc.state.az.us/
Important Contacts
Rather than reciprocal agreements with other states, Arizona waives the trade exam for any applicant who has been the qualifying party within the last 5 years for a license in good standing in a classification the Registrar deems equivalelnt in another state, and passed a comaprable trade exam to obtain that license.
Please contact the Board for more specific information.
This exam is given by PSI. Pre-approval is required.
It is a semi open-book exam with 80 questions and 3.5 hour time limit. A 70% is required to pass.
Not all of the listed references can go into the exam.
Exam topics include: Warm Air Heating, Controls & Motors, Ventilation, Sizing & Estimating, Boilers, Refrigeration and A/C and more.
American Contractors carrys many reference materials to help individual pass the Arizona Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (CR-39) exam as well as the Business Law exam.
