Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

No. sfs A a. [ zeg ed Aug Aus 2 1918
95s-54, 95s-55, 95s-56, 959-59, ana
959-59m of the statutes, and to
amend sections 959-57 and 959-5S
of the statutes, and to create sub
section of section 1927 and sec
tons 959-53, 959-54, 959-55, 959-55a,
959-55b and 959-56 of the statutes, re-
lating to the licensing of plumbers
and the supervision and inspection
of plumbing, and providing a pen
atty, and making an appropriation.
| The people of the State of Wisconsin,
| represented in Senate and Assembly. do
Section 1. Sections $685. $685.,
959--55, $3.50, $3.50 and 959--59m
of the statutes are repealed.
Section 2. There are added to the
statutes six new sections and a new
subsection to read Section 959-53. l.
| (a) A journeyman plumber is hereby
defined to be any person other than
| master plumber, who, as his princip pal
| occupation is engaged in the practical
| installation Of plumbing.
(b( A master plumber is hereby de-
| fined to be any person skilled in the
/ planning, experimenting and the prac-
| tical installation of plumbing and fam
! liar with the laws, rules and regula-
! tionS governing the same.
(c) A plumbing contractor is hereby
defined to be any person, firm or cor
poration engaged in the business of
| installing plumbing in connection with
| the dealing in and selling of plumbing
| materials and supplies.
| 2. In any city of this state except
! cities of the fourth class having q pop
ulation of five thousand or less, no
person shall engage in or work at the
| business of master plumber or jour
neylnan plumber, and no person, firm
or corporation shall engage in or VIC k
at the business Of plumbing con-
tractor, unless licensed SO to do by
the state board of health in the man
ner herein provided.
8. The state board of health is here
by authorized and empowered to grant
and issue licenses and permits to mas
ter plumbers, journeyman plumbers
and plumbing contractors as herein
after provided for
Section 959-54. Any person desir-
ing to engage in or work at the business
of a journeyman plumber or master
plumber in this state shall apply to
the state board Of health for license
and be by said board examined as TO
his fitness for such work either as a
journeyman plumber or as a master
plumber as the case may be.
Any person, firm or corporation de-
string to engage in or work at the
business of a plumbing contractor in
this state shall apply to the state
board of health and be by said board
first duly licensed to engage in such
work. Every plumbing contractor shall
be required at all times to have Ii
stalling plumbing as a condition for
the continuance of his or its license
as such.
Section 959-55. 1. The state board
of health shall, within sixty days after
the passage and publication Of this
act, appoint, and shall have power to
remove, three plumbing examiners, OF
whom one shall be a master plumbere
and one shall be a journeyman plumb
er and one shall be member or an
employe of the state board of health,
to be known as the committee of ex-
amners for the examining of journey
man and master plumbers as to their
qualifications and fitness to be entitled
to licenses to engage in the work of
master plumbers and journeyman
plumbers herein provided for. Such
examiners shall be exempt from the
provisions of sections 990-l to $50
80 of the statutes. The state board of
health shall have power and authority
and 1T shall be it's duty to prescribe,
amend and enforce rules and regula-
lions for the examination and licens-
ing of journeyman and master plumb
ers and the licensing of plumbing con-
tractors consistent with this act
2. Each member of said committee
of examiners, except regular en-
ployee or the secretary Of the state
board of health, shall receive a COM
pei sation of ten dollars per day and
expenses for each day In which such
member is actually engaged in attend
ance upon the meetings of the commit
tee, TO De duQltGQ anu pdlu out Oh IlS
general fund Of the state treasury and
charged against the appropriation ac-
count of the state board of health to
carry into effect the provisions of sec
lions 959-53 to 959-58, inclusive, Of
the statutes.
8. The licenses Of journeyman and
master plumbers provided for in sec
ton 959-53 of the statutes shall be
issued by the state board of health
upon evidences as shown by the
animation, of the fitness of the appli-
cant for the business or practice of
master plumber or Journeyman
plumber as the case may be. Plumbing
contractors shall be licensed without
examination as to qualifications and
fitness to engage in the practical in
stallation Of plumbing.
A. The state board of health shall
have power to revoke any journeyman
or master plumbers license if same
was obtained through error or fraud,
or if the recipient thereof is shown to
ond wilful violation of any rules and
regulations prescribed by the state
board of health; the state board of
health shall also have power to revoke
any plumbing contractors license, II
the owner thereof shall be guilty of
second wilfuI violation of any rule or
regulation prescribed by the state
board of health; provided, that before
any license shall be revoked, the hold
er thereof shall have notice, in writ
ing, enumerating the charges, and at
specified date named therein, not less
than five days after the service of such
board and have an opportunity to pro.