Chapter 427

2003 -- H 5972

Enacted 08/06/03

A N A C T

RELATING TO PLUMBERS

Introduced By: Representative John J. McCauley

Date Introduced: February 12, 2003

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 5-20-17 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-20 entitled "Plumbers

and Irrigators" is hereby amended to read as follows:

5-20-17. Qualifications of journeyperson -- Application fee. -- No application for a

journeyperson's license shall be filed at the department of labor and training nor shall any

applicant be permitted to take the examination for a license as a journeyperson plumber, unless:

      (1) The application is accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of thirty six

dollars ($36.00);

      (2) The applicant shall have possessed for at least four (4) years prior to the filing of the

application a certificate of registration in full force and effect from the department of labor and

training of the state specifying that person as a registered apprentice plumber and the application

of that applicant is accompanied with an affidavit or affidavits of his or her employer or former

employers or other reasonably satisfactory evidence showing that the applicant has been actually

engaged in plumbing work as an apprentice plumber in the state of Rhode Island for eight

thousand (8,000) hours of on the job training during a five (5) year period which shall include the

successful completion of five hundred seventy-six (576) hours of related instruction at a training

program recognized by the department of labor and training or the application is accompanied

with an affidavit or other reasonably satisfactory evidence showing that the applicant has been a

registered student in a recognized college, university, or trade school and has pursued a course of

plumbing or sanitary engineering for at least two (2) academic years, or is the recipient of an

associate degree in either plumbing or sanitary engineering, and has thereafter been registered by

the department of labor and training as an apprentice plumber for at least two (2) years and at all

times while being employed as a registered apprentice plumber by a duly licensed master plumber

in this state for a period of two (2) years or the application is accompanied by an affidavit or other

reasonably satisfactory evidence showing that the applicant possesses a certificate of license,

issued under the laws of another state, provided that the requirements are the same as the state

specifying that person as a journeyperson plumber. The records of the hours of on the job training

and the hours of related instruction should be maintained in a mutually responsible manner,

through a joint effort on the part of the master plumber and the apprentice. The completed

application is to be filed with the department at least fifteen (15) days prior to the examination

date.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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