title
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE BUSINESS OF PLUMBING IN THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, DEFINING THE BUSINESS OF PLUMBING, A MASTER PLUMBER, A JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER, PROVIDING FOR AND REGULATING THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PLUMBERS AND CHIEF PLUMBING INSPECTOR, AND PRESCRIBING DUTIES OF BOARD OF HEALTH WITH REFERENCE TO PLUMBING IN THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Any person now or hereafter engaged in or working at the business of plumbing in the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, either as master plumber or journeyman plumber or any person installing or placing any plumbing fixture or materials, shall first receive a Certificate of Competency in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 2. The term “Master Plumber” as used in this ordinance shall be construed to include any person who, under a contract or agreement between himself and another, engages in, or works at, the business of plumbing or installs or places any plumbing or plumbing material or who directs or supervises the installing or placing of same within any building.
The term “Journeyman Plumber”, as used in this ordinance shall be construed to include any person who, under the director of and n the employ of a master plumber, works at the business of plumbing or who installs or places any plumbing, plumbing fixtures or plumbing material within any building.
The Certificate of Competency issued by said Board of Examiners to applicants who pass examination as herein provided, or otherwise qualify, is the license permitting the practice of plumbing as provided by the ordinance.
Plumbing is defined as to include all work of every character connected with the installation or repairing of any plumbing fixtures and materials connected with the drainage of buildings and property; likewise, all work requiring connection with street sewerage and water mains and plumbing ventilation.
SECTION 3. There shall be, in the City of Jonesboro, a Board of Examiners of Plumbers, hereinafter referred to as Plumbing Board, consisting of four members, two of whom shall be master plumbers, one a journeyman plumber and one, the City Engineer or the Chairman of the Board of Health of the City of Jonesboro. Said master plumbers and said journeyman plumber shall have had ten years of actual experience as a plumber next before qualifying as members of said Board and said master plumbers and journeyman plumber shall qualify as such members of said Board by filing the affidavit as provided by this ordinance, with the Clerk of said city, together with the fee of five dollars ($5.00) and a Certificate of Competency from said clerk showing the filing of said affidavit and the payment of said fee, qualified said plumbers to act as members of said Board and is the license permitting the practice of plumbing as provided by this ordinance. All members of said Plumbing Board shall be citizens and actual residents of the City of Jonesboro.
If any plumber be appointed on said Boar and at the time of his appointment holds a Certificate of Competency as provided by this ordinance and has been a plumber for more than ten years, he is qualified to act as a member of said Board without filing the affidavit and fee as herein provided.
The Board of Examiners of Plumbers heretofore appointed in the year 1949 and duly qualified as provided by law, shall continue to serve as members of said Board until the first of May in the year 1951, unless someone removed for cause as hereinafter provided. Beginning with the first of May, in the year 1951, and every two years thereafter said Board of Examiners of Plumbers shall be appointed.
SECTION 4. Persons who have been engaged in the active practice and business of plumbing as a master plumber or journeyman plumber continuously for a period of ten years next before making application for plumbers’ license to practice or follow the business of plumbing in Jonesboro, Arkansas, shall not be required to stand an examination of his qualifications, provided that he make affidavit of his actual continuous practice as master plumber or journeyman plumber as the case may be for the time provided by this ordinance and that said affidavit shall be attested by two supporting witnesses of the truth of same, the said Board of Examiners shall issue a Certificate of Competency to said applicant granting him the right and privilege to practice and follow the business of plumbing in said city, provided all persons either master plumbers or journeymen plumbers, not having had said ten years continuous practice and experience as a plumber, as herein provided by this ordinance, shall be required to stand an examination given by the said Board testing applicant as to his practical knowledge of plumbing and house drainage. Such examination must not be conducted in an arbitrary manner, but given in such a manner only as to test the applicant’s practice ability to perform the duties of a plumber. The examination shall be of such character as to thoroughly be based upon the practical work to be done by a plumber and shall not be based on theoretical plumbing.
All examinations given by the Board of Examiners of Plumbers shall be open to the public. In all examinations, the applicant shall be given at least ten questions or tests to answer or perform. In grading an applicant, a grade of one hundred (100) points shall be considered as a perfect grade. In taking an examination, no applicant shall be allowed or given over ten points on any one test or question. The failure of an applicant to wipe a dead joint to the satisfaction of the Board of Examiners of Plumbers shall not, of itself, be considered sufficient to authorize the Board to refuse to give the applicant in passing grade or to refuse to issue to the applicant a Certificate of Competency as a plumber. A grade of seventy (70) on the examination shall be considered as a passing grade and entitle the applicant to a Certificate of Competency. After the examination is given, the Board shall immediately grade the applicant and announce whether or not he is entitled to a Certificate of Competency.
SECTION 5. There shall be appointed by the Mayor one Chief Plumbing Inspector and such number of deputy plumbing inspectors as the City Council may designate. Said City Plumbing Inspectors and deputy plumbing inspectors shall be appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council, at the same time as the Board of Examiners of Plumbers are appointed as hereinbefore provided. The present City Plumbing Inspector shall continue to serve as such until the first day of May, 1951, unless sooner removed.
Said City Plumbing Inspector and deputies shall be paid such compensation as the Council may designate. It shall be the duties of deputies to inspect all plumbing and drainage done in their respective cities and to enforce the provisions of this ordinance and all plumbing ordinance of the City of Jonesboro and to ensure the proper performance of all plumbing work.
Said Chief Plumbing Inspector shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Health of the City of Jonesboro and shall take part in the proceedings whenever said Board may have under consideration the formation and submission of rules and regulations governing the work of plumbing and drainage to be submitted to the City Council.
Said Chief Plumbing Inspector shall attend all meetings of the Board of Examiners of Plumbers, including the meeting for the examination of applicants for Certificates of Competency as plumbers and shall have the decided voice and vote in all matters pertaining to the examination of applicants and the granting of Certificates of Competency whenever the remaining members of said Board of Examiners fail to agree.
No person shall be eligible to the office of Plumbing Inspector unless he shall have had at least ten years practical experience in the business of plumbing and he shall not be connected in any way with any firm or corporation directly or indirectly in the business of plumbing. He shall be a citizen and an actually resident of the City of Jonesboro.
SECTION 6. The Plumbing Department, including the Board of Examiners and the Chief Plumbing Inspector and his deputies shall be under the supervision of the entire Board of Health for the City of Jonesboro, and at least one Board of Health member shall attend all examinations of applicants for Certificates of Competency as plumbers.
SECTION 7. All applicants for Certificates of Competency as plumbers shall file their application with the City Clerk, accompanied by a fee of five and no/100 ($5.00) dollars. Upon receipt of such application, the City Clerk shall immediately notify the Chairman of the Board of Examiners of Plumbing or some member of said Board it shall be the duty of said Board to meet within ten days and give the applicant an examination as provided herein. The Chairman, Secretary or some member of said Board of Examiners shall notify the City Clerk of the time and place of the examination at least five days in advance of the date of the examination. The City Clerk shall, thereupon, notify the applicant for the time and place of the examination at least five days prior to the date of same
If the Board of Examiners fail to give any applicant for a Certificate of Competency as a plumber, the examination at the time and in the manner herein provided or act in an arbitrary manner in giving any such examination, the members of said Board shall be subject to removal from office by the City Council upon charges being preferred against them by any plumber or citizen of Jonesboro.
SECTION 8. Section 414 of Carroll’s Digest of the Ordinance of Jonesboro is hereby amended to read as follows: A lead drum trap or cast iron P-trap two inches in diameter shall be installed as close as possible under each bath tub. A homemade lead ferrule or manufactured lead ferrule shall be installed under a toiler commode, except that cast iron must be used in concrete floors.
SECTION 9. The same examination shall be given to a master plumber and to a journeyman plumber. No rule or regulation shall be promulgated by the Board of Examiners or Plumbing Board requiring that an applicant for a Certificate of Competency shall have worked any period of time as a plumber in order to be eligible for a Certificate of Competency, either as a master plumber or a journeyman plumber. Provided that Certificates may be granted upon affidavits of ten years of actual experience as set out in Section 3 above.
SECTION 10. All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 11. It being well known to the members of this Council that there is a great deal of plumbing work to be done in the homes and residences and buildings being constructed in the city and to be constructed that free competition is the life of trade; that there is an immediate need for the installation of plumbing in the many homes and houses now being built and to be built in Jonesboro, it is found that the immediate passage of this ordinance is necessary for the preservation and protection of the public peace, health and safety; an emergency, therefore, is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, adoption and publication as required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on this the 5th day of October, 1949.