“Certificate of competency required to perform work” is hereby added as a new section as follows:
“Certificate of Competency Required to Perform Work.
1. Certificate required. It shall be unlawful, except as hereinafter provided, for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof, and also for any accomplice, to perform or assist in performing any act concerning, affecting or relating to the installing or servicing of any matter covered under the provisions of this code unless said person or a member of said firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof shall first have been certified by the State of Iowa as being competent to perform such act, or unless such person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, or any combination thereof shall have regularly and steadily in such person’s, firm’s, corporation’s, partnership’s or association’s employ a person or persons so certified by such board as being competent to perform the act or acts governed by the provisions of this code and who will perform all work within the corporate limits of the City. The holder or holders of certificates of competency shall be the authorized representative or representatives of said firm, partnership, person, corporation, association, or combination thereof in matters concerning, affecting, or related to conformance with the provisions of this code. Final responsibility, however, for compliance with the provisions of this code shall be with the owner or owners of the firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof, who agree to undertake the performance of such act or acts; and said owner or owners shall be responsible for obtaining from the State of Iowa the necessary permit or permits, approvals, certificates, etc., before any such act is started at the site of the installing or servicing.
2. No person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof, shall be granted permission to perform any act other than that which is specified in the certificate or certificates of competency possessed by said person, or member, or employee, or employees of said firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof, and such act or acts shall be performed under the direct supervision of such certificate of competency holder or holders. The provisions of this code shall not prohibit any person from assisting in the act or acts of installing or servicing of matter covered by this code when such act or acts are performed under the direct supervision or a person or persons so certified to be competent to perform such act or acts.”
(Prior Code, § 6-13-36)