(a) No person, firm, corporation or other entity, except as exempted in this chapter, shall engage in the installation, alteration, repair or addition of any plumbing to any building or property connected to the City’s water and/or sewer system unless such person, firm, corporation or other entity has obtained a registration from the City as required by this chapter. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity that supplies journeyman plumbers or plumbing apprentices to any other person, firm, corporation or other entity for purposes of engaging in the installation, alteration, repair or addition to plumbing in any building or property connected to the City’s water and/or sewer system shall obtain a registration as a plumbing contractor as required by this chapter. The holder of the registration referenced in this section shall be deemed the authorized representative of such person, firm, corporation or other entity and shall act as such representative in all matters pertaining to this chapter.
In addition to any other consequences of a civil, criminal or administrative nature, whoever violates this section shall be required to pay to the City an amount equal to three (3) times the amount required by the City for the applicable registration or license.
(b) The plumbing contractor’s registration shall be issued only to an individual and such registration shall not be transferable. A registered contractor may not represent and may not apply for permits for more than one person, firm, corporation, or other entity. No registration issued under the authority of this chapter shall be transferable. If the person to whom the registration was issued ceases to be an employee or member of any person, firm, corporation or other entity engaged in the business of plumbing contracting, the person, firm, corporation or other entity, shall be allowed 120 days for the completion of unfinished contracts but shall not thereafter be permitted to engage in the business of plumbing contracting until a new registration is issued to another authorized representative. The penalty described in subsection (a) hereof shall apply to and be collected from persons, firms, corporations or other entities working in violation of this section regardless of whether they are a contractor, journeyman, apprentice or other status.
(Ord. 242-02. Passed 12-16-02.)
(c) The person, firm, corporation or other entity employing the holder of a plumbing contractor’s registration and the individual holding the plumbing contractor’s registration shall be jointly and severally liable for all violations under this chapter.
(d) Unless otherwise excepted by this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to undertake or to perform the work of any plumbing contractor, as defined by this chapter, or to represent or advertise, either publicly or privately, as being ready, willing or able to contract or to undertake to perform such work, or to supply journeyman plumbers or plumbing apprentices to any other person, firm, corporation or other entity for purposes of installing, altering, repairing or adding any plumbing in any building or property connected to the City’s water and/or sewer system without first having obtained an appropriate registration as required by this chapter.
(e) No plumbing contractor shall permit or allow any person to engage in the installation, alteration, repair or addition of any plumbing to any building or property connected to the City’s water and/or sewer system pursuant to a permit granted to such plumbing contractor unless such persons are licensed journeyman plumbers or registered plumbing apprentices, as defined by this chapter, and are directly employed by a plumbing contractor properly registered with the City of Canton.
(Ord. 258-2001. Passed 12-10-01.)