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4-332-010 Licensed plumber defined.
4-332-020 Businesses – Licensing requirements.
4-332-030 Employee licensing requirements – Homeowner and lessee exemptions.
4-332-040 License – Application.
4-332-050 License – Issuance conditions.
4-332-060 Reexamination waiting period.
4-332-070 License – Term – Renewal.
4-332-080 Restoration after military service.
4-332-090 Out-of-state licenses – Transferability conditions.
4-332-100 License – Suspension or revocation – Hearing procedure.
4-332-110 License – Suspension or revocation.
4-332-120 Reinstatement procedure.
4-332-130 Reserved.
4-332-140 Reserved.
4-332-150 Reserved.
4-332-160 Reserved.
4-332-170 License and registration fees.
4-332-175 Building permit privileges – Suspension.
4-332-180 Violation – Penalty.
4-332-190 Rules.
“Licensed plumber” means a person duly certified as such and authorized to engage in the installation of plumbing, through a registered plumbing contractor, and also in planning, engineering, superintending, installation, maintenance and repair with respect to plumbing in all its branches, in accordance with the plumbing regulations and provisions of this Code.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)
No firm, association, partnership or corporation shall engage in plumbing unless the employees of such firm, association, partnership or corporation shall be licensed plumbers or apprentices, and unless at least one member of every firm, association or partnership engaged in plumbing work, and at least one corporate officer of every corporation engaged in plumbing work, as the case may be, shall be a licensed plumber. Every such firm, association, partnership or corporation shall keep on display in its place of business the plumbing license of at least one of its members, partners or officers thereof.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)
(1) All planning, inspection and designing of plumbing systems and all plumbing and the inspection thereof shall be performed only by plumbers licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter hereinafter called “licensed plumbers”, provided that no person who holds a certificate of registration provided for by “The Illinois Architectural Act”, approved June 24, 1919, as amended, or “The Illinois Structural Engineering Act”, approved June 24, 1919, as amended, or the “Illinois Professional Engineering Act”, approved July 20, 1945, as amended, shall be prevented from planning and designing plumbing systems.
(2) Nothing herein contained shall prohibit a licensed registered plumbing contractor from employing any person at least 16 years of age in plumbing as a plumber's apprentice under the supervision of a licensed registered plumbing contractor. No person shall engage in plumbing as a plumber's apprentice unless he has registered with the board of plumbing examiners as a plumber's apprentice upon forms prescribed by the board. No licensed registered plumbing contractor shall employ any person as a plumber's apprentice who is not so registered.
(3) Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the owner or lessee occupant of a single-family residence from himself planning, installing, altering or repairing the plumbing system of such residence; provided, that such plumbing shall comply with all plumbing laws, rules and regulations applicable thereto and shall be subject to such inspection as may therein be provided; and provided further that any such owner or lessee occupant may not employ any other person than a licensed registered plumbing contractor to assist him in such work.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)
(1) An applicant for a plumber's license shall file his written application in the office of the board of plumbing examiners on the form designated by the board at least 15 days before the date set for the examination.
(2) The board shall promptly approve the application for examination if:
(a) The required examination fee has been paid; and
(b) The applicant has submitted evidence that he is a citizen of the United States or has declared his intention to become a citizen; and
(c) The applicant has been engaged in plumbing as a plumber's apprentice for at least four years preceding the date of his application; or
(d) The applicant has submitted evidence that he has successfully completed an approved course of instruction in plumbing, sanitary engineering or plumbing engineering in a trade school, college or university.
(3) If the application is approved, the board shall promptly notify the applicant in writing of such approval and of the place and time of the examination. If the application is disapproved the board shall promptly notify the applicant in writing of such disapproval, stating the reasons for disapproval, and refund the examination fee if paid by the applicant.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)
The commissioner of buildings shall issue plumber's license certificates to those applicants who pass the examination upon payment to the board of the required license fee. Such license certificates shall be issued in the name of the board with the seal thereof attached.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 2-22-17, p. 43876, § 14)
(a) All plumber’s licenses and apprentice plumber’s certificates of registration shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance. Licenses and certificates of registration may be renewed for a period of one year upon payment of the appropriate renewal fee. A plumber’s license which has expired for failure to pay the appropriate license fee shall be reinstated by the board, without examination, upon payment of a lapsed renewal fee in addition to the appropriate license fee within five years following the date of expiration.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2019, each licensed plumber shall, as a condition of each annual license renewal, provide evidence of completion of four hours of continuing education in plumbing. Continuing education courses shall be supervised directly by another licensed plumber. In addition to any other applicable penalty the Commissioner of Buildings may require a licensed plumber who violates this chapter or the building provisions of this Code to complete a minimum of two hours of additional continuing education in plumbing prior to license renewal.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 1-23-19, p. 94952, Art. I, § 4)
The board shall reinstate a license which expires while a licensee is in the active military service of the United States upon application by the former licensee within two years after termination of such military service, payment of the annual license fee and submission of evidence of such military service. Such license shall be reinstated without examination and without payment of the lapsed renewal fee.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)
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