(A) The phrase and words JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER, PLUMBER’S APPRENTICE, PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, and PLUMBING, when used in the ordinances, regulations, and other official acts and communications of this town, shall have the meaning respectively prescribed for them by 59 O.S. § 1003 unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business, trade, occupation of a plumbing contractor (otherwise known as a master plumber) or of a journeyman plumber, or of an apprentice in this town unless he or she is registered with the Town Clerk/Treasurer and has a current and valid certificate of registration issued by the Town Clerk/Treasurer.
(C) Only persons who have current and valid licenses as plumbing contractors or as journeyman plumbers issued by the State Commissioner of Health as provided by the Plumbing License Law of 1955, may register as such with the Town Clerk/Treasurer; and only persons who have current and valid certificates of registration as plumber’s apprentices issued by the State Commissioner of Health as provided by 59 O.S. § 1013, may register as such with the Town Clerk/Treasurer.
(D) (1) Upon application to the Town Clerk/Treasurer and the payment of the required fees to the Town Clerk/Treasurer’s office, the Town Clerk/Treasurer shall register such application for registration as a plumbing contractor shall also furnish a bond as prescribed below.
(2) Such town certificates shall not be valid after the termination or expiration of the state licenses or certificates.
(E) (1) Registration certificates of plumbing contractors and journeyman plumbers issued as provided herein shall expire on June 30 each year.
(2) The town certificates of plumber’s apprentices shall expire when their state certificates expire (which is five years after date of issue).
(F) The annual registration fee shall be as follows: plumbing contractor, $10; journeyman plumber, $10. The registration for a plumber’s apprentice shall be $5.
(G) A qualified person may register as a plumbing contractor, a journeyman plumber, or plumber’s apprentice, in the same manner as in the original instance, upon the same conditions.
(H) The Board of Trustees, upon at least ten days’ notice and adequate opportunity for a public hearing, may revoke the town registration of any plumbing contractor or journeyman plumber for violating any provision of the ordinances or regulations of the town relating to the installation of plumbing or for any other cause specified in § 10 of the Plumbing License Law of 1955 (59 O.S. § 1010).
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 3, § 29)
Statutory reference:
Plumbing License Law of 1955, see 59 O.S. § 1001-1023.1