By Hilbert H.B. No. 2414
74R2140 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain exemptions from the regulation of plumbing
1-3 work.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-6 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 Sec. 3. ACTS PERMITTED WITHOUT A LICENSE. The following
1-9 acts, work and conduct shall be expressly permitted without
1-10 license:
1-11 (a) Plumbing work done by a property owner in a
1-12 building owned or occupied by him as his homestead;
1-13 (b) <Plumbing work done outside the municipal limits
1-14 of any organized city, town or village in this state, or within any
1-15 such city, town or village of less than five thousand (5,000)
1-16 inhabitants, unless required by ordinance in such city, town or
1-17 village of less than five thousand (5,000) inhabitants;>
1-18 <(c)> Plumbing work done by anyone who is regularly
1-19 employed as or acting as a maintenance man or maintenance engineer,
1-20 incidental to and in connection with the business in which he is
1-21 employed or engaged, and who does not engage in the occupation of a
1-22 plumber for the general public; construction, installation and
1-23 maintenance work done upon the premises or equipment of a railroad
1-24 by an employee thereof who does not engage in the occupation of a
2-1 plumber for the general public; and plumbing work done by persons
2-2 engaged by any public service company in the laying, maintenance
2-3 and operation of its service mains or lines to the point of
2-4 measurement and the installation, alteration, adjustment, repair,
2-5 removal and renovation of all types of appurtenances, equipment and
2-6 appliances, including doing all that is necessary to render the
2-7 appliances useable or serviceable; appliance installation and
2-8 service work done by anyone who is an appliance dealer or is
2-9 employed by an appliance dealer, and acting as an appliance
2-10 installation man or appliance service man in connecting appliances
2-11 to existing piping installations; water treatment installations,
2-12 exchanges, services, or repairs. Provided, however, that all work
2-13 and service herein named or referred to shall be subject to
2-14 inspection and approval in accordance with the terms of all local
2-15 valid city or municipal ordinances;
2-16 (c) <(d)> Plumbing work done by a licensed irrigator
2-17 or licensed installer when working and licensed under Chapter 197,
2-18 Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 8751,
2-19 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). A person holding a valid license
2-20 from the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall not be
2-21 required to be licensed by any other board or agency when
2-22 installing or working on a lawn irrigation system; and
2-23 (d) <(e)> Plumbing work done by an LP Gas installer
2-24 when working and licensed under Chapter 113, Natural Resources
2-25 Code, as amended.
2-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-27 applies to plumbing work performed on or after January 1, 1996.
3-1 Plumbing work performed before January 1, 1996, is governed by the
3-2 law in effect on the date the plumbing work was begun, and the
3-3 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
3-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.