By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 3236
77R9329 MXM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exceptions to the regulation of plumbing.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3(a), The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-5 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (a) The following acts, work and conduct shall be expressly
1-8 permitted without license:
1-9 (1) Plumbing work done by a property owner in a
1-10 building owned or occupied by him as his homestead;
1-11 (2) [Plumbing work done outside the municipal limits
1-12 of any organized city, town or village in this state, or within any
1-13 such city, town or village of less than five thousand (5,000)
1-14 inhabitants, unless required by ordinance in such city, town or
1-15 village of less than five thousand (5,000) inhabitants;]
1-16 [(3)] Plumbing work done by anyone who is regularly
1-17 employed as or acting as a maintenance man or maintenance engineer,
1-18 incidental to and in connection with the business in which he is
1-19 employed or engaged, and who does not engage in the occupation of a
1-20 plumber for the general public; construction, installation and
1-21 maintenance work done upon the premises or equipment of a railroad
1-22 by an employee thereof who does not engage in the occupation of a
1-23 plumber for the general public; and plumbing work done by persons
1-24 engaged by any public service company in the laying, maintenance
2-1 and operation of its service mains or lines to the point of
2-2 measurement and the installation, alteration, adjustment, repair,
2-3 removal and renovation of all types of appurtenances, equipment and
2-4 appliances, including doing all that is necessary to render the
2-5 appliances useable or serviceable; appliance installation and
2-6 service work done by anyone who is an appliance dealer or is
2-7 employed by an appliance dealer, and acting as an appliance
2-8 installation man or appliance service man in connecting appliances
2-9 to existing piping installations; water treatment installations,
2-10 exchanges, services, or repairs. Provided, however, that all work
2-11 and service herein named or referred to shall be subject to
2-12 inspection and approval in accordance with the terms of all local
2-13 valid city or municipal ordinances;
2-14 (3) [(4)] Plumbing work done by an irrigator licensed
2-15 under Chapter 34, Water Code, or an installer licensed under
2-16 Chapter 33, Water Code. A person holding a valid license from the
2-17 Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall not be required to be
2-18 licensed by any other board or agency when installing or working on
2-19 a lawn irrigation system;
2-20 (4) [(5)] Plumbing work done by an LP Gas installer
2-21 when working and licensed under Chapter 113, Natural Resources
2-22 Code, as amended;
2-23 (5) [(6)] Plumbing work, limited to the provision of a
2-24 residential potable water supply or residential sanitary sewer
2-25 connections, for a project in a geographic area that is located in
2-26 a county any part of which is within 50 miles of an international
2-27 border that is done by an organization that:
3-1 (A) is certified by the Texas Natural Resource
3-2 Conservation Commission to provide "self-help" project assistance;
3-3 and
3-4 (B) provides the board with the following
3-5 information before the 30th day before the date the project begins:
3-6 (i) a specific project location;
3-7 (ii) the intended duration of the project;
3-8 and
3-9 (iii) other information the board may
3-10 require, including a post-construction report signed by a plumbing
3-11 inspector that the plumbing facilities are safe.
3-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2002, and
3-13 applies to the design, installation, or maintenance of a plumbing
3-14 system performed on or after that date. The design, installation,
3-15 or maintenance of a plumbing system performed before that date is
3-16 governed by the law in effect on the date that the design,
3-17 installation, or maintenance occurred, and the former law is
3-18 continued in effect for that purpose.