Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-29
AN ORDINANCE

Creating a Board OF Examiners OF Plumbers
and Fixing the Fees 70. Certificates
and Prescribing o Penalty for
Doing Plumbing Work
Without Certiii-
cate.
Be it ordained by the City Council OF the
city Of Rock Island; ~
Sec. 1. There is hereby created a Board of
Examiners OF Plumbers for the city of Rock
Island consisting of three members, one Of
whom shall be the chairman of the Board of
Health who shall be ex-ofilcio chairman of the
Board of Examiners and a second member
who shall be master plumber. and third
who shall be journeyman plumber Said
second and third members shall be appointed
by the Mayor and approved by the City Coun
ell and shall hold their Office for a term OF
one year from the first day of May. in the
year Of appointment and thereafter they shall
be appointed annually at the first regular
meeting of the City Council in May Of each
and every year.
Sec. .. Two members Of the said Board of
Examiners shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction Of all business.
Sec. 3. The said Board Of Examiners shall
elect one of their members clerk of the said
Board whose duty ii shall be to keep n
ord OF the meetings Of the said Board and to
register the names and residences OF all per-
sons examined by the said Board and the
kind of certificates issued TO each, IL any, and
the date thereof.
Sec. 4. Any person desiring to be ex-
a
or employing plumber q journeyman
plumber by the Board hereby created. shall
make application therefore to the said Board
of Examiners on blanks furnished by the
said Board and such applications shall be
accompanied by a receipt from the City Clerk
OF the fee herein provided for, which sum
shall be in full payment Of all charges con-
nected herewith.
Sec. 5. The Board OF Examiners shall at
| stated times and on due notice. meet to con-
slider applications of persons or firms to be
examined for certificates master PLUMBERS
or employing plumbers or journeymen plumb
ers and shall eXmaine all applicants as to
their qualifications to carry the business
| Of plumbing. gas-fitting and constructing VEN
iation. drainage, sewer. soil and waste pipes
or connections Herewith and shall issue a
certificate In form approved by the Board
| OF Examiners to each applicant found quail
Ned to the satisfaction OF the said Board: the
fee for a certificate for a master plumber or
| employing plumber shall be five ls5.eo, dol
lars and for journsymen plumber one
Nl.OoD dollar and said certificates shall state
whether it authorizes the holder thereof to
engage in the work Of plumbing as a master
plumber or an employing plumber OF a
journeyman plumber.
| Sec. 6. The health officer shall receive NO
compensation for his services chairman of
the Board of Examiners other than his regu-
lar salary as Commissioner of Health The
master plumber and the jorrneyman plumber
shall each receive 100 for each and every
Injecting of the Board. Provided: that in case
the plumbing inspector Is a member OF the
Board he shall receive no extra compensate
for his services thereon.
| Sec. Z. Any person who shall engage in the
work or business Of plumbing in the city Of
ROCK Island either as a master plumber or
leiHpIoyins plumber or n journeyman plumber
without first having obtained a certificate
from duly qualified Board Of Examiners
within the state OF Illinois shall be deemed
guilty OF a misdemeanor and he subject to a
fine of not less than FIVE $500 dollars nor
lmore than fifty tsj0.oo) dollars, for each and
levery offense.
| Passed: October 18th 1887
Approved: T. J. MEDTLL. JR.. Mayor.
Attest: A. d. HUESING, City Clerk.