Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 172 - Department of Career Education › Rule 172.00.17-003 - Revised Rules and Regulations for Plumbing Apprenticeship Programs

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION I.
AUTHORITY
The following regulations are duly adopted and promulgated by the
	 Career Education and Workforce Development Board pursuant to the authority
	 expressly conferred by the laws of the State of Arkansas in Act 200 of 1951 as
	 amended, Act 96 of 1913 as amended, and Act 412 of 1991 as amended. The
	 Arkansas Department of Career Education may exercise such powers as are
	 reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of Act 200 of 1951 as amended,
	 Act 96 of 1913 as amended, Act 768 of 1987, Act 412 of 1991, ACT 140 of 2015,
	 and ACT 971 of 2017 as amended.
SECTION
  II.
PURPOSE
The purpose of these rules and regulations is to transfer the authority
	 of the apprentice plumber program from the Arkansas Department of Health to the
	 Arkansas Department of Career Education. The content of these rules and
	 regulations are basically the same as those rules and regulations pursuant to
	 Act 768 of 1987.
SECTION
  III.
DEFINITIONS
(a) The Board means the Career Education and
  Workforce Development Board.
(b)
  The Department means the Arkansas Department of Career Education.
(c) Arkansas State Committee of Plumbing
  Examiners means people designated by the Board of Health to determine the
  eligibility of applications for various types of plumbing and gas licenses in
  accordance with Act 200 of 1951 as amended.
(d) Employer means any master plumber
  representing himself or a company that performs plumbing work in the state of
  Arkansas.
(e) Apprentice plumber
  means a person other than a master or journeyman plumber as provided in these
  regulations of apprenticeship at least sixteen (16) years of age and covered by
  the required apprenticeship agreements.
(f) Apprenticeship agreement means a written
  agreement as provided by USDOL/OA and the Department of Health/Plumbing and
  Natural Gas section signed by the apprentice and (if the apprentice is a minor)
  the parent or guardian, the local apprenticeship committee and the
  participating company.
(g) USDOL/OA
  means the United States Department of Labor, Office of
  Apprenticeship.
(h) State Plumbing
  Apprenticeship Committee means people designated by the Board to assist in
  carrying out the provisions of Act 412 of 1991 as amended.
(i) Local apprenticeship committee means a
  group composed of master and/or journeyman plumbers who are licensed as
  prescribed by law to carry out the provision of Act 412 of 1991 as
  amended.
(j) Master plumber means
  any person licensed as prescribed by law skilled in the planning,
  superintending, and the practical installation of plumbing, and who is familiar
  with Act 412 of 1991 and Act 200 of 1951 as amended.
(k) Journeyman plumber means any person
  licensed as prescribed by law, other than a master or apprentice plumber, who
  is engaged in the practical installation of plumbing.
(l) Local plumbing inspector means the
  individual authorized by the Department of Health to enforce the provisions of
  Act 200 of 1951 as amended and Act 412 of 1991 as amended.
(m) Laborer means any person engaged in
  trenching, transporting supplies, demolition, etc., whose primary function is
  physical in nature.
(n) Credit time
  means previous out of state work experience under the supervision of a master
  plumber in the plumbing trade equivalent to the educational requirements set
  forth by these regulations or instate work after 1984 while registered with the
  Department of Health and USDOL/OA as required by Act 412 of 1991 as
  amended.
(o) 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.