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90_HB3409
225 ILCS 320/2 from Ch. 111, par. 1102
Amends the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Provides that
the definition of "plumbing" includes back flow prevention
devices between a lawn sprinkler system and the source of a
private water supply (instead of the definition including
lawn sprinkler systems from the source of a private water
supply). Provides that the definition of plumbing does not
mean or include the trade of installing lawn sprinkler
systems connected to properly installed back flow prevention
devices. Provides that the definitions of plumbing fixtures
and plumbing system do not include lawn sprinkler systems
that have been properly connected to a back flow prevention
device. 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 back flow prevention devices between a
30 lawn sprinkler system and systems, from the source of a
31 private water supply on the premises or from the main in the
32 street, alley or at the curb to, within and about any
33 building or buildings where a person or persons live, work or
34 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 installing
12 lawn sprinkler systems connected to properly installed back
13 flow prevention devices, the trade of drain-laying, the trade
14 of drilling water wells which constitute the sources of
15 private water supplies, and of making connections between
16 such wells and pumping units in the water supply systems of
17 buildings served by such private water supplies, or the
18 business of installing water softening equipment and of
19 maintaining and servicing the same, or the business of
20 manufacturing or selling plumbing fixtures, appliances,
21 equipment or hardware, or to the installation and servicing
22 of electrical equipment sold by a not-for-profit corporation
23 providing electrification on a cooperative basis, that either
24 on or before January 1, 1971, is or has been financed in
25 whole or in part under the federal "Rural Electrification Act
26 of 1936" and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary
27 thereto, to its members for use on farms owned by individuals
28 or operated by individuals, nor does it mean or include minor
29 repairs which do not require changes in the piping to or from
30 plumbing fixtures or involve the removal, replacement,
31 installation or re-installation of any pipe or plumbing
32 fixtures. Plumbing does not include the installation, repair,
33 maintenance, alteration or extension of building sewers.
34 "Plumbing fixtures" means installed receptacles, devices
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1 or appliances that are supplied with water or that receive or
2 discharge liquids or liquid borne wastes, with or without
3 discharge into the drainage system with which they may be
4 directly or indirectly connected. Plumbing fixtures does not
5 include lawn sprinkler systems that have been properly
6 connected to a back flow prevention device.
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 or lawn sprinkler systems that have been properly
13 connected to a back flow prevention device.
14 "Retired plumber" means any licensed plumber in good
15 standing who meets the requirements of this Act and the
16 requirements prescribed by Department rule to be licensed as
17 a retired plumber and voluntarily surrenders his plumber's
18 license to the Department, in exchange for a retired
19 plumber's license. Retired plumbers cannot perform plumbing
20 as defined in this Act, cannot sponsor or supervise
21 apprentice plumbers, and cannot inspect plumbing under this
22 Act. A retired plumber cannot fulfill the requirements of
23 subsection (3) of Section 3 of this Act.
24 "Supervision" with respect to first and second year
25 licensed apprentice plumbers means that such apprentices must
26 perform all designing and planning of plumbing systems and
27 all plumbing as defined in this Act under the direct personal
28 supervision of the sponsor or his or her agent who must also
29 be an Illinois licensed plumber, except for maintenance and
30 repair work on existing plumbing systems done by second year
31 apprentice plumbers; provided that before performing any
32 maintenance and repair work without such supervision, such
33 apprentice has received the minimum number of hours of annual
34 classroom instruction recommended by the United States
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1 Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
2 for apprentice plumbers in a Bureau of Apprenticeship and
3 Training approved plumber apprenticeship program or its
4 equivalent. "Supervision" with respect to all other
5 apprentice plumbers means that, except for maintenance and
6 repair work on existing plumbing systems, any plumbing done
7 by such apprentices must be inspected daily, after initial
8 rough-in and after completion by the sponsor or his or her
9 agent who is also an Illinois licensed plumber. In addition,
10 all repair and maintenance work done by a licensed apprentice
11 plumber on an existing plumbing system must be approved by
12 the sponsor or his or her agent who is also an Illinois
13 licensed plumber.
14 "Sponsor" is an Illinois licensed plumber or an approved
15 apprenticeship program that has accepted an individual as an
16 Illinois licensed apprentice plumber for education and
17 training in the field of plumbing and whose name and license
18 number or apprenticeship program number shall appear on the
19 individual's application for an apprentice plumber's license.
20 "Sponsored" means that each Illinois licensed apprentice
21 plumber has been accepted by an Illinois licensed plumber or
22 an approved apprenticeship program for apprenticeship
23 training.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-665, eff. 8-14-96.)
25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.