Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 248 CMR - BOARD OF STATE EXAMINERS OF PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS › Title 248 CMR 11.00 - Education and Experience Standards and Requirements for Licensure › Section 11.02 - Education and Experience Requirements for Apprentices, Journeyman and Master Licensees; Education and Experience Requirements for Undiluted Liquefied Petroleum Gas Installers and Limited Undiluted Liquefied Petroleum Gas Installers

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Qualifications for Admission to the Journeyman Plumber
			 Examination
.
(a)
Apprentice Plumber Licensed before September 1, 2008
.
			 An applicant who is a licensed apprentice plumber and the apprentice license
			 was received prior to September 1, 2008 in accordance with M.G.L. c. 142,
			 § 3A shall be required to fill out a Board approved application and meet
			 the following requirements to be eligible for admission to the journeyman
			 plumber examination:
1.
Experience
. The applicant shall furnish documentary
			 proof satisfactory to the Board of having completed practical work experience
			 performing plumbing and gas fitting that totals no less than 8,000 clock hours
			 as a licensed apprentice working as an employee under the direct supervision of
			 a Commonwealth of Massachusetts licensed master plumber or under the direct
			 supervision of a Commonwealth of Massachusetts licensed journeyman plumber who
			 is in the employ of a master plumber. Experience installing HVAC components for
			 the installation of heating systems, steam piping and hydronic heat piping or
			 other work not requiring a plumbing or gas fitting license shall not be
			 considered qualifying experience.
2.
Education
.
a. The applicant shall furnish documentary
			 proof of having received a high school diploma or the equivalent; and
b. The applicant shall furnish documentary
			 proof of having successfully completed 300 clock hours of plumbing and gas
			 fitting theory culminating in a school or instructor designed examination to
			 ensure competency. This education must take place over a period of no less than
			 four years and must meet the requirements of
			 248 CMR 11.00. For each
			 calendar year, no more than 165 hours of education may be credited for
			 licensure purposes.
3.
			 Applicants enrolled in Public Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational
			 Technical School Programs prior to September 1, 2008.
a.
Eligibility
. To
			 be considered equivalent to an individual obtaining an apprentice license prior
			 to September 1, 2008, an applicant must meet the following criteria:
i. The applicant must have been a secondary
			 school student enrolled in a Public Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational
			 Technical School plumbing program (not including exploratory hours) prior to
			 September 1, 2008; and
ii. The
			 applicant must have obtained an apprentice license within five years of
			 beginning the high school plumbing program.
b.
Credit Granted
.
			 Eligible applicants under 248 CMR 11.02(1) shall be granted up to 300 hours of
			 education and 1,700 clock hours of experience credit from the Public
			 Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational Technical School program.
4. The provisions of 248 CMR
			 11.02(1)(a) shall expire on May 1, 2021. All applicants for a journeyman
			 plumbing license who submit an application on or after May 1, 2020 shall,
			 without loss of any lawfully earned education or work experience, be subject to
			 the same upgrading requirements as those imposed on apprentice licenses issued
			 pursuant to 248 CMR 11.02(1)(b).
Exception
: the Board
			 may, in its discretion, waive this deadline for individuals who suffered from a
			 relevant, documented hardship. However, no such waivers shall be granted on or
			 after May 1, 2021.