[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, no person shall do
plumbing work of any kind, lay any drain or agree to do any plumbing
or drain-laying jobs, either by contract or on a time-and-wage basis
or by employment of some other person who is not a duly licensed plumber
to do the work, or assume to direct or supervise any plumbing or drainage
work in the City unless he/she shall then hold an unrevoked plumber's
license issued to him/her by the City, as provided in this Article.
B.
A person who is not a licensed plumber but who is employed by a plumber
who is licensed, as provided in this Chapter, may do plumbing work
for such licensed plumber if such work is done by him/her under the
continuous and immediate supervision of such licensed plumber. Such
employee shall comply at all times with all provisions of this Article
other than the one (1) requiring plumbing workers to have licenses.
C.
A plumber who is a full-time wage earner or salaried employee of
an industrial plant in this City, who does electrical work only for
his/her employer and in his/her plumbing work no health hazards are
involved, shall not be required to have a plumber's license,
but he/she shall comply at all times with the provisions of this Article
in all other respects.
D.
The owner of property may himself/herself install plumbing to serve
such property, if the plumbing does not and will not serve a dwelling
and if he/she has obtained the required permit for such work; or if
the plumbing to be installed or repaired does or will serve a dwelling,
he/she may do the work himself/herself if all the following facts
and conditions then exist:
1.
The owner is to do all the work himself/herself without the
help of any person other than a duly licensed plumber;
2.
The dwelling is a single-family dwelling;
3.
The owner is not building such dwelling, or having it built,
for sale;
4.
The dwelling is not to be sold for at least one (1) year after
the completion of the plumbing work;
5.
The owner has applied for a permit to do such plumbing work;
6.
The owner, in doing the work, will comply with all applicable
requirements of this Article and, in particular, will duly submit
his/her work for inspection by the Building Inspector; and
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
Every person desiring to obtain a plumber's license such as
is required by this Article to engage in plumbing work in this City
shall make application to the City according to the following procedure:
1.
Present to the City Clerk an application, upon a form prescribed
and approved by the City, for a plumber's license.
2.
Tender to the City Clerk, with his/her application, the license
fee in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00).
3.
In conjunction with his/her application, and before the application
shall be acted upon, submit to the City Clerk proof of his/her having
obtained comprehensive general contractor's bodily injury liability
insurance providing for a limit of not less than one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000.00) for all damages arising out of bodily injuries
to or for the death of one (1) person and subject to the limit for
each person, a total limit of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00)
for all damages arising out of bodily injuries to or death of two
(2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and comprehensive general
contractor's property damage liability insurance providing for
a limit of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for all
damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property in any
one (1) accident, and subject to that limit per accident, a total
or aggregate limit of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00)
for all damages arising out of injury to or destruction of property
during the policy period. This insurance must cover below-grade damage
and be in full force during the entire construction process; and further
be with a company approved by the City; and such insurance shall cover
the licensee and all employees of the licensee who may perform work
with the City under the provisions of this Article.
4.
Each plumber shall file a certificate showing that he/she has
workers' compensation insurance if, under the laws of the State,
he/she is required to carry such insurance.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Upon compliance with the provisions of Section 505.420 by an applicant for a plumber's license, the City Clerk shall issue to such applicant a written license and shall authorize him/her, when the required insurance shall have been obtained, to do plumbing work within the City.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Each plumber's license required by this Article shall expire with the ending of the calendar year in which it shall have been issued, except if a person holding an unexpired and unrevoked plumber's license issued by the City Clerk should apply, before the end of such year and in the manner required by Section 505.420 for a plumber's license for the following year, the City Clerk shall issue such license and show thereon that it is for such following year. No plumber's license shall be issued except upon the applicant's complying with the requirements of Section 505.420 regardless of when the application therefor shall be made.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Every person who is or who shall be doing plumbing work in this City and who is required by this Article to have a plumber's license issued by the City Clerk shall pay to the City an annual license fee as set forth in Section 505.420. Such license fee shall be paid on or before the first day of January or in accordance with Section 605.050 of this Code.
Plumbers working without a required license shall pay a late
fee in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to the annual
license fee; provided, however, the late fee shall not be imposed
if the required license is obtained before 12:00 Noon on the next
business day after notification by the City of the need to obtain
the license.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
Payment of the plumber's license fee assessed by this Article
shall not relieve any merchant electrician from the payment of any
license fees assessed by this Code or any other ordinance of this
City against merchants. The term "merchant plumber" means a person
who is or has been a plumber and who, in addition to doing plumbing
work, sells fixtures, appliances or merchandise of any kind.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
No person to whom a plumber's license has been issued for
the City shall cause or permit the certificate to be used in any manner
by another person, and no other person except the person to whom the
license has been issued shall use the license in any manner.
[Ord. No. 141 § 1, 11-17-2009]
A.
In the event that any holder of a plumber's license shall violate
any of the terms or provisions of this Article, his/her certificate
may be suspended or revoked by the Building Inspector after notice
to the holder of such plumber's license that the Building Inspector
has suspended or revoked the same. Such notice shall be in writing.
There shall be sufficient service thereof if it shall be deposited
in the United States mail, directed to the last known address of the
holder of the license required by this Chapter.
B.
The holder of a plumber's license which has been suspended or
revoked by the preceding Section shall be entitled to appeal to the
Board of Aldermen from the ruling of the Board, which appeal will
be informally taken, but in any case must be taken within ten (10)
days after such suspension or revocation of such certificate by the
Board. The Board of Aldermen shall provide full opportunity for the
person whose certificate has been suspended or revoked to appear before
it and show cause why his/her certificate should not be suspended
or revoked.
