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91_SB0457
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Plumbing License Law by
2 changing Section 2 and adding Section 2.5.
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 and adding Section 2.5 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 "Irrigation contractor" means a registered person
7 authorized to install lawn irrigation systems.
8 "Lawn irrigation sprinkler system" means any underground
9 irrigation system of lawn, shrubbery and other vegetation
10 from any potable water sources; and from any water sources,
11 whether or not potable, in: (i) any county with a population
12 of 3,000,000 or more; (ii) any county with a population of
13 275,000 or more which is contiguous in whole or in part to a
14 county with a population of 3,000,000 or more; and (iii) any
15 county with a population of 37,000 or more but less than
16 150,000 which is contiguous to 2 or more counties with
17 respective populations in excess of 275,000. Such system
18 includes without limitation the water supply piping, valves
19 and sprinkler heads or other irrigation outlets. "Lawn
20 irrigation sprinkler system" does not include an irrigation
21 system used primarily for agricultural purposes, including
22 irrigation systems used at nurseries, garden centers, and
23 landscape holding yards for production and maintenance of
24 plant materials.
25 "Person" means any natural person, firm, corporation,
26 partnership, or association.
27 "Plumber" means any licensed person authorized to perform
28 plumbing as defined in this Act, but does not include retired
29 plumbers as defined in this Act.
30 "Plumbing" means the actual installation, repair,
31 maintenance, alteration or extension of a plumbing system by
32 any person.
33 "Plumbing" includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances
34 and appliances for a supply of water for all purposes,
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1 including without limitation backflow prevention devices
2 between a lawn irrigation system and sprinkler systems, from
3 the source of a private water supply on the premises or from
4 the main in the street, alley or at the curb to, within and
5 about any building or buildings where a person or persons
6 live, work or assemble.
7 "Plumbing" includes all piping, from discharge of pumping
8 units to and including pressure tanks in water supply
9 systems.
10 "Plumbing" includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances,
11 and appliances for a building drain and a sanitary drainage
12 and related ventilation system of any building or buildings
13 where a person or persons live, work or assemble from the
14 point of connection of such building drain to the building
15 sewer or private sewage disposal system 5 feet beyond the
16 foundation walls.
17 "Plumbing" does not mean or include the trade of
18 installing or maintaining lawn irrigation systems connected
19 to properly installed backflow prevention devices, the trade
20 of drain-laying, the trade of drilling water wells which
21 constitute the sources of private water supplies, and of
22 making connections between such wells and pumping units in
23 the water supply systems of buildings served by such private
24 water supplies, or the business of installing water softening
25 equipment and of maintaining and servicing the same, or the
26 business of manufacturing or selling plumbing fixtures,
27 appliances, equipment or hardware, or to the installation and
28 servicing of electrical equipment sold by a not-for-profit
29 corporation providing electrification on a cooperative basis,
30 that either on or before January 1, 1971, is or has been
31 financed in whole or in part under the federal "Rural
32 Electrification Act of 1936" and the Acts amendatory thereof
33 and supplementary thereto, to its members for use on farms
34 owned by individuals or operated by individuals, nor does it
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1 mean or include minor repairs which do not require changes in
2 the piping to or from plumbing fixtures or involve the
3 removal, replacement, installation or re-installation of any
4 pipe or plumbing fixtures. Plumbing does not include the
5 installation, repair, maintenance, alteration or extension of
6 building sewers.
7 "Plumbing fixtures" means installed receptacles, devices
8 or appliances that are supplied with water or that receive or
9 discharge liquids or liquid borne wastes, with or without
10 discharge into the drainage system with which they may be
11 directly or indirectly connected. "Plumbing fixtures" does
12 not include lawn irrigation systems that have been properly
13 connected to backflow prevention devices.
14 "Plumbing system" means the water service, water supply
15 and distribution pipes; plumbing fixtures and traps; soil,
16 waste and vent pipes; building drains; including their
17 respective connections, devices and appurtenances. "Plumbing
18 system" does not include building sewers as defined in this
19 Act or lawn irrigation systems that have been properly
20 connected to backflow prevention devices.
21 "Retired plumber" means any licensed plumber in good
22 standing who meets the requirements of this Act and the
23 requirements prescribed by Department rule to be licensed as
24 a retired plumber and voluntarily surrenders his plumber's
25 license to the Department, in exchange for a retired
26 plumber's license. Retired plumbers cannot perform plumbing
27 as defined in this Act, cannot sponsor or supervise
28 apprentice plumbers, and cannot inspect plumbing under this
29 Act. A retired plumber cannot fulfill the requirements of
30 subsection (3) of Section 3 of this Act.
31 "Supervision" with respect to first and second year
32 licensed apprentice plumbers means that such apprentices must
33 perform all designing and planning of plumbing systems and
34 all plumbing as defined in this Act under the direct personal
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1 supervision of the sponsor or his or her agent who must also
2 be an Illinois licensed plumber, except for maintenance and
3 repair work on existing plumbing systems done by second year
4 apprentice plumbers; provided that before performing any
5 maintenance and repair work without such supervision, such
6 apprentice has received the minimum number of hours of annual
7 classroom instruction recommended by the United States
8 Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
9 for apprentice plumbers in a Bureau of Apprenticeship and
10 Training approved plumber apprenticeship program or its
11 equivalent. "Supervision" with respect to all other
12 apprentice plumbers means that, except for maintenance and
13 repair work on existing plumbing systems, any plumbing done
14 by such apprentices must be inspected daily, after initial
15 rough-in and after completion by the sponsor or his or her
16 agent who is also an Illinois licensed plumber. In addition,
17 all repair and maintenance work done by a licensed apprentice
18 plumber on an existing plumbing system must be approved by
19 the sponsor or his or her agent who is also an Illinois
20 licensed plumber.
21 "Sponsor" is an Illinois licensed plumber or an approved
22 apprenticeship program that has accepted an individual as an
23 Illinois licensed apprentice plumber for education and
24 training in the field of plumbing and whose name and license
25 number or apprenticeship program number shall appear on the
26 individual's application for an apprentice plumber's license.
27 "Sponsored" means that each Illinois licensed apprentice
28 plumber has been accepted by an Illinois licensed plumber or
29 an approved apprenticeship program for apprenticeship
30 training.
31 (Source: P.A. 89-665, eff. 8-14-96.)
32 (220 ILCS 320/2.5 new)
33 Sec. 2.5. Irrigation contractor registration; fees.
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1 Every irrigation contractor shall annually register with the
2 Department. The annual registration fee shall be $25. Every
3 irrigation contractor shall provide to the Department his or
4 her business name and address, telephone number, name of
5 principal, and FEIN number.
6 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.