Chapter 145, PLUMBING AND FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS AND SWIMMING POOL PLAN REVIEW

145.01 Definitions. In this chapter: (1) AUTOMATIC FIRE SPRINKLER CONTRACTOR. “Automatic fire sprinkler contractor” means any individual, firm or corporation who has paid the annual license fee and obtained a license to conduct a business in the design, installation, maintenance …

145.02 Powers of department. (1) The construction, installation and maintenance of plumbing in connection with all buildings in this state, including buildings owned by the state or any political subdivision thereof, shall be safe, sanitary and such as to safeguard the public hea…

145.04 Water and sewerage systems. (1) ORDINANCE RULES. A 1st, 2nd or 3rd class city with a water system or sewerage system shall, and a village, 4th class city, town, county or metropolitan sewerage commission may, by ordinance, prescribe rules relating to local permits for the …

145.045 Certification of soil testers. (1) POWERS AND DUTIES. The department shall by rule establish an examining program for the certification of soil testers, setting such standards as the department finds necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. Such standards sha…

145.05 Plumbing supervisors, supervision. (1) The common council of a 1st, 2nd or 3rd class city with a water system or sewerage system, or the officer or board in charge, shall appoint one or more plumbing supervisors, who shall be licensed plumbers, and unless under civil servi…

145.06 License or registration required; exemptions. (1) (a) No person may engage in or work at plumbing in the state unless licensed to do so by the department. A master plumber may work as a journeyman. No person may act as a plumbing apprentice or pipe layer unless registered …

145.07 Licenses and registration; examinations. (2) Application for a master or journeyman plumber’s examination, temporary permit or license shall be made to the department with fees. Unless the applicant is entitled to a renewal of license, a license shall be issued only after …

145.08 Fees; expiration of license; registration. (1) The department shall establish fees by rule for the examinations, licenses, and registrations specified in this section. The fees established by the department shall as closely as possible equal the cost of providing the follo…

145.09 State comity. (1m) Any person may be accepted for examination for the appropriate classification of license without submitting evidence required under s. 145.07, if: (a) The person holds a current license under the laws of any other state, or under the ordinances of any ci…

145.10 Investigations, hearings; suspension, revocation. (1) The department may make investigations and conduct hearings and may, on its own or upon complaint in writing duly signed and verified by the complainant, and after providing not less than 10 days’ notice to the licensee…

145.11 Advertising restrictions. (1) No person offering plumbing services may do any of the following, unless the person is a licensed master plumber or employs a licensed master plumber: (a) Advertise as a plumbing contractor, master plumber or plumber. (b) Append his or her nam…

145.12 Prohibitions and penalties. (1) Any person who engages in or follows the business or occupation of, or advertises or holds himself or herself out as or acts temporarily or otherwise as a master plumber, as an automatic fire sprinkler contractor or as a business establishme…

145.14 Plumbers license (restricted). (1) LIMITATIONS. (a) Persons licensed as master plumbers (restricted), journeyman plumbers (restricted) or registered learners shall be classified by the department under sub. (2) and shall be restricted to the type of work for which they hav…

145.15 Licenses. (1) No city, village, town or county may require the licensing of any person licensed or registered under ss. 145.15 to 145.18 for any activity regulated under ss. 145.15 to 145.18 or rules adopted thereunder. (2) All licenses issued under ss. 145.15 to 145.18 sh…

145.16 Fire sprinkler system apprentices, registration. Automatic fire sprinkler system apprentices may not be required to apply for any license but shall register with the department as an apprentice. The apprentices shall be enrolled in a qualified apprenticeship sprinkler fitt…

145.165 Automatic fire sprinkler fitter-maintenance only registration. (1) An automatic fire sprinkler fitter-maintenance only registration certificate is required for any person who is employed to maintain automatic fire sprinkler systems by a business establishment registered u…

145.17 Inspectors and rule making. (1) The department may employ competent supervisors, who shall be licensed automatic fire sprinkler contractors or journeymen automatic fire sprinkler system fitters, and may employ other persons. (2) The department shall prescribe rules as to t…

145.175 Automatic fire sprinkler-maintenance only registration. An automatic fire sprinkler-maintenance only registration certificate is required before any business establishment may maintain or repair existing automatic fire sprinkler systems in its physical facilities. The dep…

145.18 Temporary permits. The department may issue temporary permits to journeymen automatic fire sprinkler system fitters or to automatic fire sprinkler contractors pending examination of applicants for licenses. The department may also issue temporary permits to applicants for …

145.19 Sanitary permits. (1b) DEFINITION. In this section, “sanitary permit” means a permit authorizing the installation of a private on-site wastewater treatment system that is issued by the department or any governmental unit responsible for the regulation of private on-site wa…

145.195 Building on unsewered property. (1) No county, city, town or village may issue a building permit for construction of any structure requiring connection to a private on-site wastewater treatment system unless a private on-site wastewater treatment system satisfying all app…

145.20 Private on-site wastewater treatment systems. (1) ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL. (a) The governing body of the governmental unit responsible for the regulation of private onsite wastewater treatment systems may assign the duties of administering the private on-site wastewater…

145.23 Rules. The department may make and enforce rules relating to lot size and lot elevation necessary for proper sanitary conditions in the development and maintenance of subdivisions 145.26 not served by a public sewer, where provision for such service has not been made. Hist…

145.24 Variances. (1) If an existing private on-site wastewater treatment system either is not located in soil meeting the siting standards or is not constructed in accordance with design standards promulgated under s. 145.02, the owner of the private on-site wastewater treatment…

145.26 Public swimming pool plan review. (1) In this section, “public swimming pool” means a fixed or mobile structure, basin, chamber, or tank and appurtenant buildings and equipment that serve or are installed for use by the state, a political subdivision of the state, a motel,…