CHAPTER 520

S.P. 723 - L.D. 1923

An Act To Maintain Standards for the Plumbing Profession

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §3501, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 2003, c. 688, Pt. A, §37, is further amended to read:

B. A minimum of 2,000 hours of work in the field of plumbing installations as a journeyman-in-training under the supervision of a licensed master plumber, as long as the work experience is obtained within 4 years of the date upon which the applicant was issued a journeyman-in-training license. A journeyman-in-training license must be issued upon sworn application to any person who has satisfactorily completed one academic year of instruction in plumbing at a board-approved technical college or community college or a registered Department of Labor joint apprenticeship program and who has obtained a passing grade, as determined by the board on the journeyman's examination.