Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

The state board of plumbing examiners shall aid and cooperate with the director of the department of labor and training and the division of professional regulation: (1) In preparing forms for application for examinations for license; (2) In preparing subject matter, questions, an…

The director of the department of labor and training shall: (1) Prepare license certificates and issue them in conformity with this chapter; (2) Maintain an up-to-date record specifying the names and addresses of licensed master plumbers and journeyperson plumbers or master irrig…

(a) After July 13, 2001, and at any time prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months following July 13, 2001, the authority shall, without examination, upon payment of the fees required in this chapter, issue through the department of labor and training, division of professiona…

Any applicant for a license as a master plumber, master irrigator, journeyperson plumber, journeyperson irrigator, master water-filtration/treatment-system installer, journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installer or an apprentice plumber, apprentice irrigator, or appr…

(a) No application for a license of a master plumber, master irrigator, or master water-filtration/treatment-system installer shall be filed by the department of labor and training, nor is any applicant permitted to take the examination for a license as a master plumber, master i…

No application for a journeyperson’s license shall be filed at the department of labor and training nor shall any applicant be permitted to take the examination for a license as a journeyperson plumber, unless: (1) The application is accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee…

No application for a journeyperson’s license shall be filed at the department of labor and training nor shall any applicant be permitted to take the examination for a license as a journeyperson irrigator unless: (1) The application is accompanied with the nonrefundable applicatio…

No application for a journeyperson’s license shall be filed at the department of labor and training nor shall any applicant be permitted to take the examination for a license as a journeyperson water filtration/treatment system installer unless: (1) The application is accompanied…

Any references to water-filtration/treatment-system work pursuant to § 5-20-1 et seq., shall be solely in reference to commercial water-filtration/treatment-system work as defined in § 5-20-5.2. Nothing herein shall be applicable to residential water-filtration/treatment systems …

Any person who holds a certificate of license as a master plumber, master irrigator, master water-filtration/treatment-system installer, journeyperson plumber, journeyperson irrigator, journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installer or an apprentice plumber, apprentice …

As used in this chapter: (1) “Plumbing” means: (i) All fittings, fixtures, appliances, and connections that are located within a building or a structure, or within five feet (5′) of the outer walls of a building or structure and that connect said building or structure, where a pe…

The department of labor and training shall provide and conduct examinations at least three (3) times each year of applicants who have had their applications for a master plumber’s license, master irrigator’s license, or a journeyperson plumber’s or journeyperson irrigator’s licen…

(a) The director of the department of labor and training shall allow or deny applications for a master plumber’s license, master irrigator’s license, master water-filtration/treatment-system installer’s license or a journeyperson plumber’s license, journeyperson irrigator’s licen…

(a) Any applicant who fails in an examination for a license is permitted to take further examination upon payment for each examination of the prescribed fee in §§ 5-20-15 — 5-20-17. (b) Any applicant who fails to qualify may, within thirty (30) days after notification of his or h…

(a) All licenses issued by the division of professional regulation for master plumbers, master irrigators, and master water-filtration/treatment-system installers, and journeyperson plumbers, journeyperson irrigators, or journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installers …

(a) In every place in this state within and from which a plumbing, irrigation, or commercial water-filtration/treatment business is conducted as specified for a master plumber, master irrigator, or master water-filtration/treatment-system installer, there shall be on display at a…

(a) Any person who has agreed to work a minimum of eight thousand (8,000) hours over a period of time of not less than five (5) years under the direct supervision and instruction of a master plumber or journeyperson plumber as an apprentice to learn the plumbing business, and tha…

To be eligible applicants for plumbing licensing exams, apprentices shall complete an applicable registered apprenticeship program in Rhode Island. Apprentices shall provide transcripts of completed related instruction and work record books from employer(s), or other reasonably s…

(a) For licensing purposes, decisions by an apprenticeship sponsor to grant credit for prior learning or experience pursuant § 28-45-9(2)(xii) or § 28-45-9.2 shall also require the written approval of the state board of plumbing examiners of the Rhode Island department of labor a…

Nothing contained in this chapter prohibits any city or town from providing for a plumbing inspector or from requiring permits for the installation and repair of plumbing or irrigation systems and collecting fees for the installation and repair of plumbing.

The director of labor and training shall revoke the license of any master plumber, master irrigator, master water-filtration/treatment-system installer, or journeyperson plumber, journeyperson irrigator, or journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installer after a hearing…

(a) No proceedings to revoke a license, as provided in this section, shall be instituted unless filed with the department of labor and training within one year immediately following the date, or dates, of violation. (b) No license of a master plumber, master irrigator, master wat…

The department of labor and training has power to subpoena and bring before it, the division of professional regulation, or the state board of plumbing examiners, any witness to take testimony, either orally or by deposition, or both, in any proceeding authorized by law.

(a) “Master plumber,” as used in this chapter, means any person who, as an independent contractor, engages in this state in the business of installation, maintenance, or repair of plumbing in the building or upon the premises where that plumbing, as defined in § 5-20-2, is or is …

“Master irrigator,” as used in this chapter, means a person who has performed in the capacity of a journeyperson irrigator as defined in § 5-20-5.1 for not less than two (2) years.

“Master water-filtration/treatment-system installer,” as used in this chapter, means a person who has performed in the capacity of a journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installer as defined in § 5-20-3.3 for not less than one year.

“Journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system installer,” as used in this chapter, means a person who has performed all phases of a project under the supervision of a master water-filtration/treatment-system installer licensee for a period of not less than one year. Journeyper…

The director of the department of labor and training, the administrator of the division of professional regulation, and any members of the state board of plumbing examiners have power to administer oaths to witnesses at a hearing that the department is authorized by law to conduc…

Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of the division of professional regulation may appeal that decision to the administrator of the division or his or her designee. A further appeal may then be made to the state board of plumbing examiners. The state board of plumbing …

Any further appeal from the actions of the director of the department of labor and training shall be in accordance with the provisions of the administrative procedures act, chapter 35 of title 42.

Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be subject to the penalties as follows: any person, firm, or corporation, licensed or unlicensed by the department of labor and training, division of professional regulation, shall be subject to a fine of one thousand five …

(a) It is the duty of the director of the department of labor and training and the chief plumbing investigator to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Local building and plumbing inspectors, involved in the day-to-day inspection of plumbing, irrigation, or water-filtration/tre…

It is the duty of the director of the department of labor and training, under the recommendation of the board of examiners for plumbers, to fine any person, corporation, firm, association, or partnership violating any of the provisions of this chapter upon complaint being made wh…

(a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the installation of automatic sprinkler systems or other fire protection appliances in this state and do not apply to employees of public utilities (publicly or privately owned); provided, that any resident of Rhode Island not li…

Violations of this chapter may be enjoined upon a bill of complaint being filed in the superior court for the county in which those violations have been committed, by the division of professional regulation or by any association of master plumbers, master irrigators, master water…

The proceeds of any fees collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited as general revenues.

Any person who is a licensed individual sewage disposal system installer under the provisions of chapter 56 of this title is authorized to make residential water supply connections to residential dwellings consisting of three (3) units or less, both public or private, at the sour…

The authority and power to regulate plumbers pursuant to the provisions of this chapter formerly within the department of health are transferred to the department of labor and training. Any reference in this chapter to the authority and power to regulate plumbers within the depar…

(a) “Journeyperson plumber,” as used in this chapter, means any employee, except an apprentice plumber as subsequently defined, whose principal occupation is the installation, maintenance, or repair of plumbing, as defined in § 5-20-2. (b) A person holding a valid journeyperson l…

“Apprentice irrigator,” as used in this chapter, means a person hired to perform all phases of an irrigation project and registered as an apprentice pursuant to § 28-45-13 working under the supervision of a master irrigation licensee or a licensed journeyperson irrigator for a pe…

“Apprentice water-filtration/treatment-system installer,” as used in this chapter, means a person hired to perform all phases of a water-filtration/treatment-system project under the supervision of a master water-filtration/treatment-system installer licensee or a licensed journe…

The chief of the section shall act as an investigator with respect to the enforcement of all provisions of law relative to the licensing of plumbers, and to this effect whenever a complaint is made by the chief of this section to the director of the department of labor and traini…

“Apprentice plumber,” as used in this chapter, means any employee registered as an apprentice pursuant to § 28-45-13, whose principal occupation is service with a master plumber with a view to learning the art or trade of maintenance, installation, or repair of plumbing, as defin…

“Journeyperson irrigator,” as used in this chapter, means a person who has performed all phases of a project under the supervision of a master irrigation licensee for a period of not less than one year. Journeypersons shall not be permitted to apply for an irrigation permit.

“Commercial water-filtration/treatment-system work,” as used in this chapter, means any alteration, installation or repair of water-filtration/treatment systems in which the piping exceeds one and one-half inches (1.5") or the flow rate exceeds eighty (80) gallons per minute.

(a) A state board of plumbing examiners is created in the department of labor and training whose duty it is to supervise the operation of the division of professional regulation in an advisory capacity in promulgating any policy that is necessary to improve the operation of the d…