[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lackawanna 4-19-1993 by L.L. No. 2-1993 (Ch. 121 of the 1987 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Plumbers — See Ch. 172.
A Plumbing Board for the examination of plumbers in the City of Lackawanna is hereby established.
A. 
The Plumbing Board shall consist of five persons to be appointed by the Mayor, of whom two shall be employing or master plumbers of not less than 10 years' experience in the business of plumbing; one shall be a journeyman plumber of like experience and the other two members shall be the chief inspector of plumbing and drainage of the City and the City Engineer.
B. 
In the event there be no such officers in the City, then any two other officers having charge or supervision of the plumbing, drainage or sewage whom the Mayor shall designate or appoint.
The term of office of each member of the Plumbing Board shall be three years. Vacancies occurring by expiration of a term shall be filled by the Mayor for a full term. Vacancies by death, removal, inability to act, resignation or removal from the City of any member shall be filled by the Mayor for the unexpired term. The chief inspector of plumbing and the City Engineer designated or appointed by the Mayor as herein provided shall be ex officio members of such examining board, and when they shall leave to hold their offices by reason or on account of which they were so designated or appointed, their successors shall act on the examining board in their stead.
There shall be no compensation paid to the members of the Plumbing Board unless otherwise determined by the City Council of the City of Lackawanna.
All members of such Board shall be citizens of the United States of America and residents of the County of Erie and State of New York.
The Plumbing Board of the City of Lackawanna shall have the powers and duties as set out in § 44 of the General City Law of the State of New York.
A person desiring to or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in the City of Lackawanna as an employing or master plumber is required to submit to an examination before the Plumbing Board as to his experience and qualifications for such trade, business or calling, and it shall not be lawful in the City of Lackawanna for a person to conduct such trade, business or calling unless he shall have first obtained a certificate of competency from the Plumbing Board of the City of Lackawanna.
A domestic corporation desiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in the City of Lackawanna as employing or master plumber may do so, provided that one or more officers of such corporation separately or aggregately hold and own at least 51% of the issued stock and outstanding capital stock of said corporation, and provided that each of such officers holding such percentage of stock is the holder of a certificate of competency from the Lackawanna City Plumbing Board.