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AR Code § 17-37-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-207. License classification

 (a) The license shall specify the classification of work in which the license holder is authorized to engage and shall show the name and address of the person, firm, or corporation to which it is issued and the name of the licensed or qualified operator, if he or she is someone other than the license holder.  (b)  (1) The license holder shall do only the kind of work specified in the classification for which he or she has been licensed, regardless of whether for compensation or not.  (2) Any licensee performing any work in any classification for which he or she has not been licensed shall suffer invalidation of the license in any other classification.    (c)  (1) The State Plant Board may classify or subclassify commercial and noncommercial licenses to be issued under this chapter as may be necessary for the effective administration and enforcement of the chapter.  (2) The classifications may include, but not be limited to:  (A) Industrial, institutional, structural, and health-related;  (B) Ornamental and turf;  (C) Agricultural; and  (D) Noncommercial applicators.    (3) Separate subclassifications may be specified as to methods used by any licensee to apply pesticides or to the use of pesticides to control insects and plant diseases, rodents, or weeds.  (4) Each classification shall be subject to separate testing procedures and requirements.
AR Code § 17-37-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-208. Licensing standards

 (a) In promulgating rules under this chapter, the State Plant Board shall prescribe standards for the licensing of applicators of pesticides.  (b) The standards shall relate to the use and handling of the pesticides or to the use and handling of the pesticide or class of pesticide covered by the individual's license and shall be relative to the hazards involved.  (c)  (1) In determining standards, the board shall consider the characteristics of the pesticide formulation such as:  (A) The acute dermal and inhalation toxicity;  (B) The persistence, mobility, and susceptibility to biological concentration;  (C) The use experience which may reflect an inherent misuse or an unexpected good safety record which does not always follow laboratory toxicological information;  (D) The relative hazards of patterns of use such as granular soil applications, ultra low volume or dust aerial applications, or air blast sprayer applications; and  (E) The extent of the intended use.    (2) Further, the board shall take into consideration standards of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and is authorized to adopt these standards by rule.
AR Code § 17-37-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-209. Eligibility for reexamination

 Any applicant who fails to pass the written examination in any classification must wait at least three (3) months before being eligible to take another examination in the same classification.
AR Code § 17-37-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-211. Issuance fee — License expiration

 The fee for the issuance of a license in each classification shall be paid annually. The license shall expire June 30 following the date issued.
AR Code § 17-37-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-212. Transferability — Change in licensee status

 (a) No license or registration shall be transferable.  (b) When there is a change in the status of a licensee, such as change of address, operator in charge, agents, or solicitors, the licensee shall immediately notify the State Plant Board of the changes.
AR Code § 17-37-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-213. Agents and solicitors generally

 (a) Each licensed operator shall register with the State Plant Board the name and address of each agent or solicitor and shall pay to the board a registration fee annually for each solicitor and agent at the time of registration.  (b) All registrations shall expire when the license expires.  (c) In all cases in which a solicitor or agent violates the provisions of this chapter or the rules made under authority of this chapter, the violations shall be grounds for invalidation of the license held by the operator under which the solicitor or agent had been registered.
AR Code § 17-37-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-214. Nonresident licensee — Resident agent

 Every nonresident licensee shall designate a resident agent upon whom service of notice or process may be made to enforce the provisions of this chapter or any liabilities arising from operation under this chapter.
AR Code § 17-37-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-215. Operator's name

 (a) No licensed operator or qualified operator shall operate under more than one (1) company name in any one (1) category.  (b) No person shall issue a solicitor's or agent's license to any other person for the purpose of operating under any other name except that of the licensed operator who registers the solicitor or agent with the State Plant Board.  (c) All work shall be performed in the name of the licensed operator or his or her firm. All contracts, statements, bids, and letters shall be in his or her name and on his or her forms, and each agent shall drive vehicles lettered with the name of the licensed operator or his or her firm.
AR Code § 17-37-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-216. Refusal to issue license

 The State Plant Board shall have the authority to refuse the issuance of a license even though a passing grade is made on the written examination if the board in its judgment, after reviewing the evidence of reference checks, deems the applicant is not morally and financially responsible.
AR Code § 17-37-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-217. Grounds for license invalidation or nonrenewal

 Acts which shall be grounds for invalidation or nonrenewal of a license shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:   (1) Misrepresentations for the purpose of deceiving or defrauding;  (2) Making of a false statement with knowledge of its falsity for the purpose of inducing others to act thereon to their damage;  (3) Failure of the licensee to supply the State Plant Board or its authorized representative, upon request, with true and accurate information concerning methods and materials used or work performed or other information essential to the administration and enforcement of this chapter;  (4) Performing work, whether for compensation or not, in a classification for which the licensee does not have a license;  (5) If repeated inspections by the board reveal that the licensee is not securing satisfactory control of the pests or diseases which the licensee engages to control or eradicate;  (6) Failure of the licensee to register agents or solicitors, failure to pay registration, inspection, or reporting fees due, or failure to make reports within the time specified;  (7) Conviction in any court of a violation of this chapter or of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act;  (8) Intentional misrepresentation in any application for a license;  (9) Failure to correct substandard work;  (10) Making a pesticide recommendation or application which is inconsistent with any or all of the following:  (A) The labeling;  (B) Federal or state registration; or  (C) Federal or state restrictions on the use of that pesticide; and    (11) Falsification of records or failure to maintain or make available the records required by this chapter.
AR Code § 17-37-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-218. Invalidation or nonrenewal proceedings

 (a) Invalidation or nonrenewal proceedings may be initiated against a license holder in the same manner and for the same reasons as against a licensed operator or qualified operator.  (b) The proceedings may be jointly and severally against any or all licensed operators or qualified operators employed by the license holder.
AR Code § 17-37-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-219. Automatic invalidity of license

 A license shall automatically become invalid should the licensed operator whose name appears on the license cease to personally supervise and be in direct charge of the pest control operation. The license shall remain invalid until some other person, having been examined in accordance with this chapter and the rules under this chapter, shall be certified as the licensed operator in his or her stead.
AR Code § 17-37-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 37 - Pest Control Services|Subchapter 2 - Licensing|§ 17-37-220. Hearing and appeal

 (a) When any person is refused a license or his or her license is not renewed, or when the State Plant Board contemplates invalidation of his or her license, he or she shall have the right of a hearing before the board or an authorized committee of the board by filing a written request for a hearing with the board by registered or certified mail.  (b) Any person whose license is denied, refused, or invalidated by the board may appeal the decision to the Pulaski County Circuit Court within twenty (20) days after official notification of the decision.
AR Code § 17-38-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-101. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   (1) “Apprentice plumber” means any person other than a journeyman or master plumber who is engaged in learning and assisting in the installation of plumbing and drainage and enrolled in a state-approved apprentice program;  (2) “Approved backflow preventor” means any permanent mechanical device or combination of permanent mechanical devices of whatever material that after installation according to the state plumbing regulations acts to prevent a reversal of the normal directional flow of potable water within the piping system in which it is installed;  (3) “Board” means the State Board of Health;  (4) “Department” means the Department of Health;  (5) “Final year of apprenticeship” means when an apprentice plumber has obtained four hundred eighty (480) hours or more of classroom instruction and completed six thousand (6,000) or more hours of on-the-job work in an approved United States Department of Labor apprenticeship program;  (6) “Gas utility serviceperson” means an employee of a gas utility specially trained for gas service work with the utility;  (7) “Journeyman plumber” means any person other than a master plumber who is engaged in the practical installation of plumbing;  (8) “Master plumber” means any person skilled in the planning, superintending, and practical installation of plumbing and familiar with the laws and rules governing it;  (9) “Plumbing” means:  (A) All piping, fixtures, appurtenances, and appliances:  (i) In connection with a supply of water within or adjacent to any building, structure, or conveyance on the premises and to the connection with a utility water meter or other public water utility property or other source of supply;  (ii) For sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities, including venting systems for facilities, within or adjacent to any building, structure, or conveyance and connected with a public disposal or private disposal system or other point of disposal; or  (iii) Used in the installation of natural gas; and    (B) The installation, repair, maintenance, and renovation of all piping, fixtures, appurtenances, and appliances for a supply of water or for the disposal of waste water, liquid waste, or sewage within or adjacent to any building, structure, or conveyance on the premises and to the utility water meter or other public utility property or point-of-disposal waste; and    (10) “Restricted plumber” means a person qualified to install building water or sewer lines or other special phases of plumbing if the person has demonstrated competency for that particular phase of plumbing.
AR Code § 17-38-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-102. Prohibitions and penalties

 (a) Any person, firm, or corporation that engages in or follows the business or occupation of, or advertises or holds himself or herself or itself out as, or acts temporarily or otherwise as a plumber without first having secured the required license or permit, or that otherwise violates any provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both fine and imprisonment. Each day during which a violation continues shall be a separate offense.  (b) Any person who shall do any act prohibited in this chapter or fail to obey a lawful order of the Department of Health or a judgment or decree of a court in connection with this chapter shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three (3) months or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500). Each day during which the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.  (c) Any person, firm, or corporation that shall employ an apprentice of plumbing representing him or her to be a journeyman or that shall charge for an apprentice a journeyman's wage shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days. Each day of violation shall be a separate offense.  (d)  (1) Every firm, person, or corporation that violates any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules or orders issued or promulgated by the State Board of Health or that violates any condition of a license, permit, certificate, or any other type of registration issued by the committee may be assessed a civil penalty by the committee.  (2) The penalty shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation.  (3) Each day of a continuing violation may be deemed a separate violation for purposes of penalty assessments.    (e) All fines collected under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury and credited to the Plumbers Licensing Fund to be used to defray the costs of administering this chapter.  (f) Subject to such rules as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the disbursing officer for the department is authorized to transfer all unexpended funds relative to fines collected under this section, as certified by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, to be carried forward and made available for expenditures for the same purpose for any following fiscal year.  (g) All rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall be reviewed by the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor or appropriate subcommittees thereof.
AR Code § 17-38-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-103. Scope of state plumbing code

 (a) After adoption according to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., the provisions of the state plumbing code or amendments to the code as adopted by the State Board of Health defining plumbing work and prescribing minimum requirements for design, materials, appliances, workmanship, and methods of installation shall have the effect and force of law in the form of minimum standards statewide in application. The provisions shall apply to all types of buildings, private or public, rural or urban, including buildings owned by the state or any political subdivision of the state.  (b) All plumbing installations shall be made to conform to the state plumbing code.
AR Code § 17-38-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-104. Inspections by state in cities having enforcement officers

 (a)  (1) The Department of Health inspectors may go into any city that has a city code enforcement officer and assist the city code enforcement officer for the purpose of ensuring that the minimum standards of the state plumbing code and plumber licensing rules are being met.  (2) A written report of all inspections performed by the department inspector under this section shall be prepared by the department inspector, and a copy of the report shall be furnished within five (5) days to the city code enforcement officer and the owner of the property on which the inspection by the department inspector and city inspector is conducted.    (b) The Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., shall apply to all documents compiled during an inspection conducted by the department.
AR Code § 17-38-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-105. Exceptions

 This chapter shall not apply to:   (1) The installation, maintenance, repair, or renovation of fire protection sprinkler systems and related mechanical appurtenances beginning at a point where the pipe or piping system provides water used exclusively for these automatic sprinklers and their related appurtenances and to standpipes connected to automatic sprinkler systems;  (2) The construction, installation, maintenance, repair, renovation, or removal of pipe or piping systems and related mechanical appurtenances, appliances, or equipment used in connection with boilers or related pressure piping as defined in § 20-23-101, commercial or residential swimming pools, or irrigation sprinkler systems from a point or location in a source of potable water supply at which point or location there exists any approved backflow preventor;  (3) Piping, fixtures, appurtenances, and appliances for and in connection with liquefied petroleum gas systems as defined in § 15-75-102; or  (4)  (A) The minimum number or location of plumbing fixtures or toilet facilities for use by the public within buildings, offices, or facilities maintained by banks, savings and loan associations, or credit unions for the conduct of their business.  (B) This exemption applies to any existing or future plumbing codes or rules promulgated by the State Board of Health, or its successor agency.  (C) No municipality or county shall pass or enforce any code or regulation regarding the minimum number or location of plumbing fixtures or toilet facilities for use by the public within buildings, offices, or facilities maintained by banks, savings and loan associations, or credit unions.
AR Code § 17-38-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-106. Water distribution piping under concrete slabs

 (a) Inaccessible water distribution piping under concrete slabs may be cross-linked polyethylene PEX (SDR9) pipe.  (b) Cross-linked polyethylene PEX (SDR9) pipe shall meet ASTM F-876/F-877 and NSP standards 14 and 61.
AR Code § 17-38-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 17-38-107. Service sinks — Definition

 (a)  (1) As used in this section, “commercial building” means a building for the transaction of business, professional services, other services involving merchandise, office buildings, banks, light industrial and similar uses.  (2) “Commercial building” does not include a food service establishment.    (b) A commercial building shall not be required to include a plumbing service sink, either at construction or as part of a renovation or remodeling, if the building owner or an agent of the building owner communicates to the plumbing code official at the time of construction or renovation that the actual or proposed number of persons that will occupy the building is fifteen (15) or less.  (c) For the purposes of determining the minimum number of plumbing service sink fixtures required in a building, the number shall not be determined by using building occupancy loads as calculated in the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code.
AR Code § 17-38-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions|Chapter 38 - Plumbers|Subchapter 2 - Regulation by State Board of Health|§ 17-38-202. Committee of Plumbing Examiners

 (a)  (1) The State Board of Health shall appoint a Committee of Plumbing Examiners consisting of seven (7) voting members, prescribe their qualifications, and assign their duties.  (2) Qualifications of the members of the committee shall be as follows:  (A) Two (2) of the members shall be master plumbers;  (B) One (1) shall be a journeyman plumber;  (C) One (1) shall be a professional engineer as defined in § 17-30-101 with special expertise in plumbing design;  (D) Two (2) shall be consumers; and  (E) One (1) shall be a representative of the Department of Health.      (b) The member from the department shall serve on the committee until replaced by the Secretary of the Department of Health.  (c) The term of office for the remaining members shall be for a staggered term of four (4) years. The board may remove a member for cause.  (d) When so directed, the committee and other employees of the department shall serve the board in an advisory capacity in the formulating of rules to be adopted by the board.  (e) Those members of the committee who are not employees of the State of Arkansas may receive expense reimbursement and stipends in accordance with § 25-16-901 et seq.  (f) The Director of the Plumbing and Natural Gas Section of the Department of Health shall serve as executive secretary for the committee.