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90_SB1572
225 ILCS 320/2 from Ch. 111, par. 1102
Amends the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Provides that
plumbing includes piping for a water supply from the meter or
property line rather than the main. Provides that plumbing
does not include work performed with respect to water
distribution mains located in the public right-of-way.
Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Plumbing License Law by
2 changing Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Plumbing License Law is amended
6 by changing Section 2 as follows:
7 (225 ILCS 320/2) (from Ch. 111, par. 1102)
8 Sec. 2. When used in this Act:
9 "Agent" means a person designated by a sponsor as
10 responsible for supervision of an apprentice plumber and who
11 is also an Illinois licensed plumber.
12 "Apprentice plumber" means any licensed person who is
13 learning and performing plumbing under the supervision of a
14 sponsor or his agent in accordance with the provisions of
15 this Act.
16 "Approved apprenticeship program" means an apprenticeship
17 program approved by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of
18 Apprenticeship and Training and the Department under rules.
19 "Board" means the Illinois State Board of Plumbing
20 Examiners.
21 "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal
22 piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from
23 soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a
24 building and conveys it to 5 feet beyond the foundation walls
25 where it is connected to the building sewer.
26 "Building sewer" means that part of the horizontal piping
27 of a drainage system that extends from the end of the
28 building drain, receives the discharge of the building drain
29 and conveys it to a public sewer or private sewage disposal
30 system.
31 "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
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1 Health.
2 "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department
3 of Public Health.
4 "Governmental unit" means a city, village, incorporated
5 town, county, or sanitary or water district.
6 "Lawn sprinkler system" means any irrigation system of
7 lawn, shrubbery and other vegetation from any potable water
8 sources; and from any water sources, whether or not potable,
9 in: (i) any county with a population of 3,000,000 or more;
10 (ii) any county with a population of 275,000 or more which is
11 contiguous in whole or in part to a county with a population
12 of 3,000,000 or more; and (iii) any county with a population
13 of 37,000 or more but less than 150,000 which is contiguous
14 to 2 or more counties with respective populations in excess
15 of 275,000. Such system includes without limitation the water
16 supply piping, valves and sprinkler heads or other irrigation
17 outlets. Lawn sprinkler system does not include an
18 irrigation system used primarily for agricultural purposes.
19 "Person" means any natural person, firm, corporation,
20 partnership, or association.
21 "Plumber" means any licensed person authorized to perform
22 plumbing as defined in this Act, but does not include retired
23 plumbers as defined in this Act.
24 "Plumbing" means the actual installation, repair,
25 maintenance, alteration or extension of a plumbing system by
26 any person.
27 Plumbing includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances and
28 appliances for a supply of water for all purposes, including
29 without limitation lawn sprinkler systems, from the water
30 meter or, if there is no meter installed between the main and
31 building, the property line source of a private water supply
32 on the premises or from the main in the street, alley or at
33 the curb to, within, and about any building or buildings
34 where a person or persons live, work, or assemble.
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1 Plumbing includes all piping, from discharge of pumping
2 units to and including pressure tanks in water supply
3 systems.
4 Plumbing includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances,
5 and appliances for a building drain and a sanitary drainage
6 and related ventilation system of any building or buildings
7 where a person or persons live, work or assemble from the
8 point of connection of such building drain to the building
9 sewer or private sewage disposal system 5 feet beyond the
10 foundation walls.
11 Plumbing does not mean or include the trade of
12 drain-laying, the trade of drilling water wells which
13 constitute the sources of private water supplies, and of
14 making connections between such wells and pumping units in
15 the water supply systems of buildings served by such private
16 water supplies, or the business of installing water softening
17 equipment and of maintaining and servicing the same, or the
18 business of manufacturing or selling plumbing fixtures,
19 appliances, equipment or hardware, or to the installation and
20 servicing of electrical equipment sold by a not-for-profit
21 corporation providing electrification on a cooperative basis,
22 that either on or before January 1, 1971, is or has been
23 financed in whole or in part under the federal "Rural
24 Electrification Act of 1936" and the Acts amendatory thereof
25 and supplementary thereto, to its members for use on farms
26 owned by individuals or operated by individuals, nor does it
27 mean or include minor repairs which do not require changes in
28 the piping to or from plumbing fixtures or involve the
29 removal, replacement, installation or re-installation of any
30 pipe or plumbing fixtures. Plumbing does not include the
31 installation, repair, maintenance, alteration or extension of
32 building sewers. Plumbing also does not include the
33 installation, repair, maintenance, alteration, or extension
34 of water distribution mains located in the public
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1 right-of-way.
2 "Plumbing fixtures" means installed receptacles, devices
3 or appliances that are supplied with water or that receive or
4 discharge liquids or liquid borne wastes, with or without
5 discharge into the drainage system with which they may be
6 directly or indirectly connected.
7 "Plumbing system" means the water service, water supply
8 and distribution pipes; plumbing fixtures and traps; soil,
9 waste and vent pipes; building drains; including their
10 respective connections, devices and appurtenances. Plumbing
11 system does not include building sewers as defined in this
12 Act.
13 "Retired plumber" means any licensed plumber in good
14 standing who meets the requirements of this Act and the
15 requirements prescribed by Department rule to be licensed as
16 a retired plumber and voluntarily surrenders his plumber's
17 license to the Department, in exchange for a retired
18 plumber's license. Retired plumbers cannot perform plumbing
19 as defined in this Act, cannot sponsor or supervise
20 apprentice plumbers, and cannot inspect plumbing under this
21 Act. A retired plumber cannot fulfill the requirements of
22 subsection (3) of Section 3 of this Act.
23 "Supervision" with respect to first and second year
24 licensed apprentice plumbers means that such apprentices must
25 perform all designing and planning of plumbing systems and
26 all plumbing as defined in this Act under the direct personal
27 supervision of the sponsor or his or her agent who must also
28 be an Illinois licensed plumber, except for maintenance and
29 repair work on existing plumbing systems done by second year
30 apprentice plumbers; provided that before performing any
31 maintenance and repair work without such supervision, such
32 apprentice has received the minimum number of hours of annual
33 classroom instruction recommended by the United States
34 Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
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1 for apprentice plumbers in a Bureau of Apprenticeship and
2 Training approved plumber apprenticeship program or its
3 equivalent. "Supervision" with respect to all other
4 apprentice plumbers means that, except for maintenance and
5 repair work on existing plumbing systems, any plumbing done
6 by such apprentices must be inspected daily, after initial
7 rough-in and after completion by the sponsor or his or her
8 agent who is also an Illinois licensed plumber. In addition,
9 all repair and maintenance work done by a licensed apprentice
10 plumber on an existing plumbing system must be approved by
11 the sponsor or his or her agent who is also an Illinois
12 licensed plumber.
13 "Sponsor" is an Illinois licensed plumber or an approved
14 apprenticeship program that has accepted an individual as an
15 Illinois licensed apprentice plumber for education and
16 training in the field of plumbing and whose name and license
17 number or apprenticeship program number shall appear on the
18 individual's application for an apprentice plumber's license.
19 "Sponsored" means that each Illinois licensed apprentice
20 plumber has been accepted by an Illinois licensed plumber or
21 an approved apprenticeship program for apprenticeship
22 training.
23 (Source: P.A. 89-665, eff. 8-14-96.)
24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.