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Full Text of SB0032  96th General Assembly

SB0032sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Susan Garrett

Filed: 2/20/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 32

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 32 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Plumbing License Law is amended by
5 changing Sections 2 and 35 as follows:
 
6     (225 ILCS 320/2)  (from Ch. 111, par. 1102)
7     Sec. 2. When used in this Act:
8     "Agent" means a person designated by a sponsor as
9 responsible for supervision of an apprentice plumber and who is
10 also an Illinois licensed plumber.
11     "Apprentice plumber" means any licensed person who is
12 learning and performing plumbing under the supervision of a
13 sponsor or his agent in accordance with the provisions of this
14 Act.
15     "Approved apprenticeship program" means an apprenticeship
16 program approved by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of

 

 

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1 Apprenticeship and Training and the Department under rules.
2     "Board" means the Illinois State Board of Plumbing
3 Examiners.
4     "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal
5 piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from
6 soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a
7 building and conveys it to 5 feet beyond the foundation walls
8 where it is connected to the building sewer.
9     "Building sewer" means that part of the horizontal piping
10 of a drainage system that extends from the end of the building
11 drain, receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys
12 it to a public sewer or private sewage disposal system.
13     "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
14 Health.
15     "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
16 Public Health.
17     "Governmental unit" means a city, village, incorporated
18 town, county, or sanitary or water district.
19     "Irrigation contractor" means a person who installs or
20 supervises the installation of lawn sprinkler systems subject
21 to Section 2.5 of this Act, other than a licensed plumber or a
22 licensed apprentice plumber.
23     "Irrigation employee" means a person who is employed by a
24 registered irrigation contractor or a licensed plumber, and who
25 designs, repairs, alters, maintains, or installs lawn
26 sprinkler systems that are subject to Section 2.5 of this Law.

 

 

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1     "Lawn sprinkler system" means any underground irrigation
2 system of lawn, shrubbery and other vegetation from any potable
3 water sources; and from any water sources, whether or not
4 potable. "Lawn sprinkler system" includes without limitation
5 the water supply piping, valves, control systems, low voltage
6 wiring, sprinkler heads or other irrigation outlets, and
7 moisture or rainfall sensing equipment, but does not include
8 the backflow prevention device. "Lawn sprinkler system" does
9 not include an irrigation system used primarily for
10 agricultural purposes.
11     "Person" means any natural person, firm, corporation,
12 partnership, or association.
13     "Plumber" means any licensed person authorized to perform
14 plumbing as defined in this Act, but does not include retired
15 plumbers as defined in this Act.
16     "Plumbing" means the actual installation, repair,
17 maintenance, alteration or extension of a plumbing system by
18 any person.
19     "Plumbing" includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances
20 and appliances for a supply of water for all purposes,
21 including without limitation lawn sprinkler systems and
22 backflow prevention devices connected to lawn sprinkler
23 systems, from the source of a private water supply on the
24 premises or from the main in the street, alley or at the curb
25 to, within and about any building or buildings where a person
26 or persons live, work or assemble.

 

 

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1     "Plumbing" includes rainwater harvesting distribution
2 systems for non-potable use only. Rainwater harvesting
3 distribution systems shall be constructed in accordance with
4 the Illinois Plumbing Code.
5     "Plumbing" includes all piping, from discharge of pumping
6 units to and including pressure tanks in water supply systems.
7     "Plumbing" includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances,
8 and appliances for a building drain and a sanitary drainage and
9 related ventilation system of any building or buildings where a
10 person or persons live, work or assemble from the point of
11 connection of such building drain to the building sewer or
12 private sewage disposal system 5 feet beyond the foundation
13 walls.
14     "Plumbing" does not mean or include the trade of
15 drain-laying, the trade of drilling water wells which
16 constitute the sources of private water supplies, and of making
17 connections between such wells and pumping units in the water
18 supply systems of buildings served by such private water
19 supplies, or the business of installing water softening
20 equipment and of maintaining and servicing the same, or the
21 business of manufacturing or selling plumbing fixtures,
22 appliances, equipment or hardware, or to the installation and
23 servicing of electrical equipment sold by a not-for-profit
24 corporation providing electrification on a cooperative basis,
25 that either on or before January 1, 1971, is or has been
26 financed in whole or in part under the federal Rural

 

 

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1 Electrification Act of 1936 and the Acts amendatory thereof and
2 supplementary thereto, to its members for use on farms owned by
3 individuals or operated by individuals, nor does it mean or
4 include minor repairs which do not require changes in the
5 piping to or from plumbing fixtures or involve the removal,
6 replacement, installation or re-installation of any pipe or
7 plumbing fixtures. Plumbing does not include the installation,
8 repair, maintenance, alteration or extension of building
9 sewers, or the installation, repair, or maintenance of
10 rainwater harvesting collection systems.
11     "Plumbing contractor" means any person who performs
12 plumbing, as defined in this Act, for another person. "Plumbing
13 contractor" shall not include licensed plumbers and licensed
14 apprentice plumbers who either are employed by persons engaged
15 in the plumbing business or are employed by another person for
16 the performance of plumbing solely for that other person,
17 including, but not limited to, a hospital, university, or
18 business maintenance staff.
19     "Plumbing fixtures" means installed receptacles, devices
20 or appliances that are supplied with water or that receive or
21 discharge liquids or liquid borne wastes, with or without
22 discharge into the drainage system with which they may be
23 directly or indirectly connected.
24     "Plumbing system" means the water service, water supply and
25 distribution pipes; plumbing fixtures and traps; soil, waste
26 and vent pipes; building drains; including their respective

 

 

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1 connections, devices and appurtenances.
2     "Plumbing system" does not include building sewers as
3 defined in this Act.
4     "Rainwater harvesting collection system" is a system for
5 the capture, diversion, and storage of rainwater and consists
6 of a cistern(s), pipe, fittings, and appurtenances required for
7 or used to harvest rainwater for non-potable purposes. These
8 systems must be constructed in accordance with the Illinois
9 Plumbing Code.
10     "Rainwater harvesting distribution system" is a system for
11 the distribution of rainwater collected by an approved
12 rainwater harvesting collection system. This system consists
13 of pumps, pipe, fittings or other plumbing appurtenances and
14 must be constructed in accordance with the Illinois Plumbing
15 Code.
16     "Retired plumber" means any licensed plumber in good
17 standing who meets the requirements of this Act and the
18 requirements prescribed by Department rule to be licensed as a
19 retired plumber and voluntarily surrenders his plumber's
20 license to the Department, in exchange for a retired plumber's
21 license. Retired plumbers cannot perform plumbing as defined in
22 this Act, cannot sponsor or supervise apprentice plumbers, and
23 cannot inspect plumbing under this Act. A retired plumber
24 cannot fulfill the requirements of subsection (3) of Section 3
25 of this Act.
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1 licensed apprentice plumbers means that such apprentices must
2 perform all designing and planning of plumbing systems and all
3 plumbing as defined in this Act under the direct personal
4 supervision of the sponsor or his or her agent who must also be
5 an Illinois licensed plumber, except for maintenance and repair
6 work on existing plumbing systems done by second year
7 apprentice plumbers; provided that before performing any
8 maintenance and repair work without such supervision, such
9 apprentice has received the minimum number of hours of annual
10 classroom instruction recommended by the United States
11 Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training for
12 apprentice plumbers in a Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
13 approved plumber apprenticeship program or its equivalent.
14 "Supervision" with respect to all other apprentice plumbers
15 means that, except for maintenance and repair work on existing
16 plumbing systems, any plumbing done by such apprentices must be
17 inspected daily, after initial rough-in and after completion by
18 the sponsor or his or her agent who is also an Illinois
19 licensed plumber. In addition, all repair and maintenance work
20 done by a licensed apprentice plumber on an existing plumbing
21 system must be approved by the sponsor or his or her agent who
22 is also an Illinois licensed plumber.
23     "Sponsor" is an Illinois licensed plumber or an approved
24 apprenticeship program that has accepted an individual as an
25 Illinois licensed apprentice plumber for education and
26 training in the field of plumbing and whose name and license

 

 

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1 number or apprenticeship program number shall appear on the
2 individual's application for an apprentice plumber's license.
3     "Sponsored" means that each Illinois licensed apprentice
4 plumber has been accepted by an Illinois licensed plumber or an
5 approved apprenticeship program for apprenticeship training.
6     "Telecommunications carrier" means a telecommunications
7 carrier as defined in the Public Utilities Act.
8 (Source: P.A. 94-101, eff. 1-1-08.)
 
9     (225 ILCS 320/35)  (from Ch. 111, par. 1133)
10     Sec. 35. The Department shall promulgate and publish and
11 may from time to time amend a minimum code of standards for
12 plumbing and the fixtures, materials, design and installation
13 methods of plumbing systems based upon the findings of the
14 sciences of pneumatics and hydraulics, after consideration of
15 the recommendations of the Plumbing Code Advisory Council. The
16 Department may promulgate and publish rules in the State's
17 minimum code of standards for the minimum number of plumbing
18 fixtures required for the comfort and convenience of workers
19 and the public not inconsistent with, but not limited to, the
20 requirements of the federal Americans With Disabilities Act,
21 the Equitable Restrooms Act, and the U.S. Department of Labor,
22 Office of Safety and Health Administration. The Department
23 shall promulgate and publish a minimum code of standards for
24 rainwater harvesting collection systems and rainwater
25 harvesting distribution systems by January 1, 2010. The minimum

 

 

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1 code of standards for plumbing and any amendments thereto shall
2 be filed with the Secretary of State as a public record. In
3 preparing plumbing code standards and amendments thereto the
4 Department may give consideration to the recommendations
5 contained in nationally recognized plumbing codes and
6 recommendations of nationally recognized material and
7 equipment testing laboratories. The plumbing code promulgated
8 by the Department under authority of this Act shall remain in
9 effect as the minimum code authorized by this Act until the
10 Department promulgates a new code under authority of this Act.
11 At least 20 days' notice of a public hearing shall be given by
12 the Department in a manner which the Department considers
13 adequate to bring the hearing to the attention of persons
14 interested in plumbing code standards. Notice of any public
15 hearing shall be given by the Department to those who file a
16 request for a notice of hearings.
17 (Source: P.A. 87-885.)
 
18     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19 becoming law.".