PLEASE NOTE: Legislative Information cannot perform research, provide legal advice, or interpret Maine law. For legal assistance, please contact a qualified attorney.
An Act Regarding Local Plumbing Inspectors
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §4222,  as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
§ 4222.  Approving own work forbidden
A primary or alternate local plumbing inspector may not issue a permit or perform any construction inspection for an internal plumbing job or subsurface wastewater disposal system for which the local plumbing inspector or any employee, employer, agent or representative of the local plumbing inspector has performed or intends to perform a site evaluation or labor or has provided or intends to provide any products or services.
 
SUMMARY
This bill repeals and replaces current law and clarifies that local plumbing inspectors are prohibited from issuing permits and inspecting any internal plumbing job or subsurface wastewater disposal system work if the local plumbing inspector or the inspector's employee, employer, agent or representative has worked or plans to work on the same job, including performing a site evaluation, providing labor or providing any products or services to that site.