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(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
(A) Each person registered as a plumbing contractor shall be bonded as provided in O.A.C. § 158:30-5-2 in the amount of $5,000, cash escrow, $300.
(B) He or she must also have in force at all times a standard public liability and property damage insurance policy providing public liability insurance in the amount of $50,000.
(C) He or she must have a state plumbing contractor’s license.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 3, § 30) Penalty, see § 151.999
GAS CODE AND REGULATIONS
(A) Pamphlet No. 54 published by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and its successor the American Insurance Association, entitled Installation of Gas Piping and Gas Appliances in Buildings, is hereby adopted by reference.
(B) Said pamphlet shall be in full force in the town, and shall govern the installation of gas piping and gas appliances in building in the town. Note: Pamphlet No. 54 has been adopted by the State Fire Marshal Commission to govern gas piping and appliances throughout the state.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 4, § 31) Penalty, see § 151.999
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to engage in the business of installing gas piping and/or gas appliances without first obtaining a license for the town. The license may be obtained by the persons holding plumbing contractor’s license issued by the state.
(B) Before receiving a license, the applicant shall pay an annual fee of $10. The fee shall be paid to the Town Clerk/Treasurer, and the license shall not be valid unless it has attached to it or written on it a receipt of statement showing that the fee has been paid.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 4, § 33) Penalty, see § 151.999
(A) (1) Every person receiving a license to install gas pipe and/or appliances shall file with the Town Clerk/Treasurer a bond in the amount of $1,000, executed with a surety company authorized to do business in the state, and conditioned that the principal will install all gas piping and/or appliances in accordance with the law and the ordinances and other regulations of the town, relating to gas piping installations.
(2) The principal shall, without further cost to the person for which the work is done, remedy any defective or faulty work caused by poor workmanship or inferior or substandard materials.
(B) (1) Said bond must be approved by the Board of Trustees.
(2) No license shall be issued to any person until the bond is filed and approved, and any such license issued shall be valid only while said bond is in effect.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 5, § 34)
(A) Installers of gas appliances shall be known as gas appliance fitters, and shall be registered with the Town Superintendent.
(B) Provided, that the application for registration be accompanied by the recommendation of a licensed gas appliance dealer as to the applicant’s moral character and competency to be trusted with the performance of work involving the possibility of danger to health and life.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. 5, § 35)
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