[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982]
(a)
Plumbing or sewage installations, alterations, repairs or connections
shall be made only by a registered master plumber or a registered
journeyman plumber in his/their employment working under his/their
supervision, all of whom must be registered to perform such work by
the Plymouth Township Board of Health.
(b)
Apprentice plumbers shall work only in the presence of a registered
master plumber or a registered journeyman plumber under his/their
direct supervision.
(c)
Persons registering hereunder shall provide the full name of the
owner, partners or officers of the business entity for which registration
is made.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982; Ord. No. 1026, § 1, 2-19-1990; Ord.
No. 1168, §§ 1, 2, 1-16-1995]
(a)
A master plumber holding a license granted by the examining board
of any municipality in the metropolitan Philadelphia area (defined
hereby as Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties)
who engages in or works at the business of plumbing, drainage and
sewage or who desires to engage in or work at the business of plumbing,
drainage and sewage in the township shall, without further examination,
be registered in the office of the board of health of Plymouth Township
as a registered master plumber upon payment, each calendar year, of
a registration fee established from time to time by resolution of
township council, and the board of health, by its properly constituted
agent or officer, shall issue a certificate of such registration.
(b)
A journeyman plumber holding a license granted by the examining board
of any municipality in the metropolitan Philadelphia area (defined
hereby as Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties)
who engages in or works at the business of plumbing, drainage and
sewage or who desires to engage in or work at the business of plumbing,
drainage and sewage in the township shall, without further examination,
be registered in the office of the board of health of Plymouth Township
as a registered journeyman plumber upon payment, each calendar year,
of a registration fee established from time to time by resolution
of township council, and the board of health, by its properly constituted
agent or officer, shall issue a journeyman's certificate of such
registration.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982]
A certificate of registration granted under this chapter may
be suspended or revoked by the township in the event that the plumber,
or a representative thereof, shall violate any of the rules or regulations
of this chapter, shall refuse or neglect to make necessary corrections
to work not approved by the township within a reasonable time after
notification so to do, or who shall permit the use of his name by
a person for the purpose of obtaining a permit to do plumbing work.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982]
At the expiration of each calendar year, plumbers' certificates
shall be null and void. A licensed master plumber desiring to continue
in or to work at the business of plumbing, building drainage or sewer
drainage for the ensuing year shall, between the first and thirty-first
days of December of each and every year, surrender the certificate
to the plumbing inspector and reregister his/their name and address
upon such form as may be furnished by the board of health.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982]
No person carrying on the business of plumbing, building drainage
or sewer drainage shall allow his/their name to be used by any other
person, either directly or indirectly, to obtain a permit or permits
to do any work under the registered plumber's license.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982]
Every registered plumber shall give immediate notice of a change
in his/their place of business and upon retirement from business shall
surrender his/their certificate of registry to the plumbing inspector.
[Ord. No. 873,
§ 1, 4-12-1982; Ord. No. 1026, § 2, 2-19-1990; Ord.
No. 1168, § 3, 1-16-1995]
Sanitary excavators desiring to do work in Plymouth Township
shall register their names and places of business with the township
plumbing inspector, pay a fee established from time to time by resolution
of township council and furnish such other information as may be required
by the board of health.
