Introduced By: Representative Menard
Date Introduced : June 11, 1998
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 5-20-17 and 5-20-25 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-20 entitled "Plumbers " are hereby amended to read as follows:
5-20-17. Qualifications of journeyperson -- Application fee. [Effective January 1, 1998.]. -- No application for a journeyperson's license shall be filed by the department of health nor shall any applicant be permitted to take the examination for a license as a journeyperson plumber, unless:
(1) The application is accompanied by an application fee of fifty dollars ($50.00);
(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 health 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 {DEL three hundred (300) DEL} {ADD five hundred seventy-six
(576) ADD} hours of related instruction at a training program {DEL accredited DEL}
{ADD recognized ADD} by the department of health 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 health 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 thirty
(30) days prior to the examination date.
5-20-25. Registration of apprentices. [Effective January 1, 1998.]. -- Any person who has agreed to work a minimum of eight thousand (8,000) hours over a period of time of not less than five (5) years under the direct supervision and instruction of a master plumber or journeyperson plumber as an apprentice to learn the plumbing business, and that agreement is approved by the division of professional regulation, shall be registered for an initial period of five (5) years by the director of the department of health and shall have issued to him or her upon the payment of a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) a certificate showing that person to be a registered apprenticed. Every person who continues to work as an apprentice after the initial five (5) years registration shall be required to register again as an apprentice and pay the fee.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 1999.
