This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Plumbing
Law of the Village of Mineola, New York."
As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter
otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings:
The certificate of the Examining Board of Plumbers to a successful
applicant.
A person having a regular place of business and who, by himself
or herself, or with journeyman plumbers or helpers in his or her employ,
performs plumbing as herein defined.
The Examining Board of Plumbers consisting of three members
appointed for staggered three-year terms. At the time of their appointment
and during their term of office, each shall be an employing or master
plumber licensed by the Village of Mineola.
A person who has fully served his or her apprenticeship in
the plumbing trade and is a qualified plumber in the employ of a master
plumber.
The art of installing in buildings the pipes, fixtures and
other apparatus for bringing in the water supply and removing liquid
and water-carried wastes. Plumbing shall include all work performed
in relation to the plumbing system of a building or property.
Includes the water supply distribution pipes, both hot and
cold, the fixtures and fixture traps, the soil, waste, vent and building
sewer lines from house to public or private sewer, from house to cesspool
where no sewer is available, from one cesspool to another cesspool
when permission has been granted to construct a new cesspool, and
the water service or supply pipes, the house drains, the storm sewer,
together with all their devices and appurtenances and the connections
with or adjacent to the building or property.
A.
No person shall do any plumbing work, as defined in § 387-2, within the Incorporated Village of Mineola unless he or she has a certificate of competency or a valid registration card issued by the Examining Board of Plumbers or unless he or she works under the direct supervision and while in the employ of a person who does have a certificate of competency or a valid registration card issued by the Examining Board of Plumbers.
B.
Anything contained in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding,
any person who holds a valid certificate of competency or license
to conduct the trade or business of an employing or master plumber
duly issued by any municipality which is a party to a reciprocal licensing
compact to which the Incorporated Village of Mineola is also a party
shall be deemed to be competent to conduct that business in the Incorporated
Village of Mineola, New York, and shall not be required to obtain
a certificate of competency from the Examining Board of Plumbers of
the Incorporated Village of Mineola, New York, as a prerequisite to
conducting that business in the Incorporated Village of Mineola, New
York, but he or she must comply with and shall be subject to and bound
by all other provisions and requirements of this chapter and by all
rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
