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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 932
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 932 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Illinois Plumbing License Law is amended
5 by changing Sections 13.1, 18, 37, and 42 as follows:
6 (225 ILCS 320/13.1)
7 Sec. 13.1. Plumbing contractors; registration;
8 applications.
9 (1) On and after May 1, 2002, all persons or
10 corporations desiring to engage in the business of plumbing
11 contractor, other than any entity that maintains an audited
12 net worth of shareholders' equity equal to or exceeding
13 $100,000,000, shall register in accordance with the
14 provisions of this Act.
15 (2) Application for registration shall be filed with the
16 Department each year, on or before the last day of September
17 April, in writing and on forms prepared and furnished by the
18 Department. All plumbing contractor registrations expire on
19 the last day of September April of each year.
20 (3) Applications shall contain the name, address, and
21 telephone number of the person and the plumbing license of
22 (i) the individual, if a sole proprietorship; (ii) the
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1 partner, if a partnership; or (iii) an officer, if a
2 corporation. The application shall contain the business
3 name, address, and telephone number, a current copy of the
4 plumbing license, and any other information the Department
5 may require by rule.
6 (4) Applicants shall submit an original certificate of
7 insurance documenting that the contractor carries general
8 liability insurance with a minimum of $100,000 per
9 occurrence, bodily injury insurance with a minimum of
10 $300,000 aggregate for bodily injury per occurrence, property
11 damage insurance with a minimum of $50,000 or a minimum of
12 $300,000 combined single limit, and workers compensation
13 insurance with a minimum $500,000 employer's liability. No
14 registration may be issued in the absence of this
15 certificate. Certificates must be in force at all times for
16 registration to remain valid.
17 (5) Applicants shall submit, on a form provided by the
18 Department, an indemnification bond in the amount of $20,000
19 or a letter of credit in the same amount for work performed
20 in accordance with this Act and the rules promulgated under
21 this Act.
22 (6) All employees of a registered plumbing contractor
23 who engage in plumbing work shall be licensed plumbers or
24 apprentice plumbers in accordance with this Act.
25 (7) Plumbing contractors shall submit an annual
26 registration fee in an amount to be established by rule.
27 (8) The Department shall be notified in advance of any
28 changes in the business structure, name, or location or of
29 the addition or deletion of the owner or officer who is the
30 licensed plumber listed on the application. Failure to
31 notify the Department of this information is grounds for
32 suspension or revocation of the plumbing contractor's
33 registration.
34 (9) In the event that the plumber's license on the
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1 application for registration of a plumbing contractor is a
2 license issued by the City of Chicago, it shall be the
3 responsibility of the applicant to forward a copy of the
4 plumber's license to the Department, noting the name of the
5 registered plumbing contractor, when it is renewed.
6 (Source: P.A. 92-338, eff. 8-10-01.)
7 (225 ILCS 320/18) (from Ch. 111, par. 1117)
8 Sec. 18. Local regulation; Department standards.
9 (1) It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State
10 that each city, town, village, township or county with a
11 water supply system or sewage disposal system or both should
12 so soon after the enactment of this Act as practicable, with
13 the advice of the State Department of Public Health, provide
14 by ordinance, bylaws or rules and regulations for the
15 materials, construction, alteration, and inspection of all
16 plumbing placed in or in connection with any building in any
17 such city, town, village, township, or county and to provide
18 for and appoint a competent Plumbing Inspector or more as
19 required. The Department may by rule establish voluntary
20 standards for the content and conduct of local plumbing
21 regulation and inspection programs and may evaluate and
22 certify local programs that are in compliance with the
23 voluntary standards. The Department may by rule establish
24 voluntary education, training, and experience standards for
25 Plumbing Inspectors and may certify Plumbing Inspectors who
26 are in compliance with the voluntary standards. Nothing
27 contained in this Act shall prohibit any city, town, village,
28 township or county from providing for a Plumbing Inspector or
29 from requiring permits for the installation and repair of
30 plumbing and collecting a fee therefor, but a city, town,
31 village, township, or county that requires a permit for
32 installation and repair of plumbing may not issue that permit
33 without verification that the applicant has a valid plumbing
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1 license or that the applicant is the owner occupant of a
2 single family residence that is the subject of the permit.
3 For the purpose of this Section, the term "occupant" has the
4 same meaning as in subsection (2) of Section 3 of this Act.
5 No person shall be appointed as a Plumbing Inspector who is
6 not a licensed plumber under this Act, including persons
7 employed as Plumbing Inspectors in home rule units.
8 (2) The Department of Public Health shall conduct
9 inquiry in any city, town, village, township, or county or at
10 any other place in the State when reasonably necessary in the
11 judgment of the Director of the Department of Public Health
12 to safeguard the health of any person or persons in this
13 State, on account of piping or appurtenant appliances within
14 any building, or outside, when such piping and appliances are
15 for the use of plumbing as defined in this Act and for the
16 use of carrying sewage or waste within or from any building.
17 The Department of Public Health may conduct such
18 inquiries in any city, town, village, township or county in
19 this State by directing the Plumbing Inspector thereof to aid
20 in or conduct such inquiry or investigation in behalf of the
21 Department of Public Health or the Department of Public
22 Health may designate some other person or persons to conduct
23 such investigation.
24 (Source: P.A. 90-714, eff. 8-7-98.)
25 (225 ILCS 320/37) (from Ch. 111, par. 1135)
26 Sec. 37. Each governmental unit which is authorized to
27 adopt and has adopted any ordinance or resolution regulating
28 plumbing may provide for its administration and enforcement
29 by requiring permits for any plumbing system installation,
30 the inspection of plumbing system installations by inspectors
31 who are licensed as plumbers in accordance with the Illinois
32 Plumbing License Law, and the issue of certificates of
33 approval or compliance which shall be evidence that a
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1 plumbing system has been installed in compliance with the
2 Code of standards so adopted.
3 In any municipality in a county with a population over
4 500,000, a letter of intent shall be included with all
5 plumbing permit applications. The letter shall be written on
6 the licensed plumber of record's personal stationary and
7 shall include the license holder's signature and corporate
8 seal. A home rule unit in a county with a population over
9 500,000 may not regulate the information required to be
10 included with an application for a plumbing permit in a
11 manner less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a
12 limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII
13 of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by
14 home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the
15 State.
16 A governmental unit authorized to adopt regulations may,
17 by ordinance or resolution, prescribe reasonable fees for the
18 issue of permits for installation work, the issue of
19 certificates of compliance or approval, and for the
20 inspection of plumbing installations.
21 (Source: P.A. 79-1000.)
22 (225 ILCS 320/42)
23 Sec. 42. Home rule. Pursuant to paragraph (h) of Section
24 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 the
25 power to regulate the licensing of plumbers, to promulgate
26 the promulgation of a minimum plumbing code of standards, and
27 the power to regulate the registration of irrigation
28 contractors and plumbing contractors shall, except as may
29 otherwise be provided within and pursuant to the provisions
30 of Section 16 and Section 16.1 of this Act, be exercised by
31 the State and may not be exercised by any unit of local
32 government, including home rule units.
33 (Source: P.A. 91-678, eff. 1-26-00.)
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.".