Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 158 - Construction Industries Board
Chapter 30 - Plumbing Industry Regulations
Subchapter 5 - License Types, Bond Requirements, and Display of License Number and Firm Name
Section 158:30-5-1 - License and registration types

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 158:30-5-1

Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024

(a) Apprentice plumber registration.

(1) Apprentice plumbers when engaged in plumbing must be under the direct supervision of a licensed plumber who are both employed by the same plumbing contractor.

(2) A maximum of three (3) apprentice plumbers can work under the supervision of a licensed plumber.

(3) Apprenticeship registration is effective upon the posting of the application and evidence of such posting shall be a copy of the executed application form with proof of tender of the proper fee which may serve as evidence of registration for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.

(4) The apprentice will be registered for a one (1) year period if a completed application form with the apprentice application and registration fee listed in OAC 158:30-9-2(b) is submitted to the Plumbing License Unit along with verification of enrollment in an approved school or training course or a statement of employment by the licensed plumbing contractor who arranged for employment of the apprentice.

(5) When re-registering, the application fee is only required with the registration fee when the registration application is not filed within thirty (30) days of the expiration of previous registration.

(b) Journeyman plumber license.

(1) To engage in the act of plumbing, an unlimited journeyman plumber must be employed and supervised by a licensed plumbing contractor.

(2) A journeyman shall not contract or furnish labor and/or labor and materials.

(3) An unlimited journeyman plumber is restricted to performing residential plumbing work when employed and supervised by a residential plumbing contractor.

(c) Plumbing contractor license. Unlimited plumbing contractors meet the same requirements as applicants for the unlimited journeyman examination with an additional one (1) year of experience. Plumbing contractors must notify their surety of any municipalities wherein plumbing work will be performed and may operate as an individual, a firm, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, or other legal entity to engage in the business of plumbing, or the business of contracting to do plumbing within the unlimited category.

(d) Residential journeyman plumber license. A residential journeyman license entitles the licensee to install Plumbing as defined in 158:30-1-2 for detached one or two-family dwellings and multiple single-family dwellings (townhouses) not more than three stories in height with a separate means of egress.

(1) To engage in the act of residential plumbing, a residential journeyman plumber must be employed and supervised by a licensed plumbing contractor.

(2) A residential journeyman shall not contract or furnish labor and/or labor and materials.

(3) A residential journeyman performs plumbing work as an apprentice in commercial or industrial plumbing.

(e) Residential plumbing contractor license. Residential plumbing contractors meet the same requirements as applicants for the residential journeyman examination with an additional one (1) year of experience. Residential plumbing contractors must notify their surety of any municipalities wherein plumbing work will be performed and may operate as an individual, a firm, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, or other legal entity to engage in the business of plumbing, or the business of contracting to do plumbing within the residential category.

Added at 19 Ok Reg 721, eff 1-22-02 (emergency); Added at 19 Ok Reg 1264, eff 5-28-02; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2652, eff 7-26-03; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1147, eff 3-29-06 through 7-14-07 (emergency)1; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 2871, eff 8-25-07

1This emergency action expired before being superseded by a permanent action. Upon expiration of an emergency amendatory action, the last effective permanent text is reinstated. Therefore, on 7-15-07 (after the 7-14-07 expiration of the emergency action), the text of 158:30-5-1 reverted back to the permanent text that became effective 7-26-03, as was last published in the 2006 Edition of the OAC, and remained as such until amended again by permanent action on 8-25-07.

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