Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LXXXIX - Water Well Contractors (Drillers) › Chapter 5 - Procedures for Obtaining and Maintaining a License › Section LXXXIX-501 - License Application

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Every
				person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in the business of drilling or
				reworking water wells, drilling monitoring wells, heat pump wells or holes,
				geotechnical boreholes and/or plugging and abandoning wells or holes, excluding
				oil and gas wells, in the state of Louisiana, shall file an application (see
				§1111) with the department for a contractor's (driller's) license, using
				form provided by the department, setting out qualifications therefore and such
				other information as may be required by the department.
B. The application must be completed in its
				entirety, notarized and submitted to the department with the required license
				fee (see §503). Applications which are not properly completed, notarized,
				or accompanied with the required license fee or are illegible, will not be
				accepted by the department.
C.
				Applications received by the department will be reviewed by the advisory
				committee during their regular quarterly meetings (see §303). The
				committee will then recommend to the department, which applications should be
				accepted or rejected by the department.
D. If an application is approved, the
				department will notify the applicant of the date, time and place where he may
				appear for the licensing examination, as required by
				§505 If the
				application is rejected, the department will notify the applicant in writing
				and will return the license fee if requested by the applicant.
E. License Renewal. All licenses issued by
				the department shall expire on June 30 of each year and shall be renewable
				annually, without qualifying examination, upon submission of a completed
				license renewal application (see §1111), using form provided by the
				department, upon payment of the required license renewal fee (see §503),
				and upon certification by the department of qualified continuing education
				hours (see §509). Renewal applications, together with the required license
				renewal fees, must be received by the department no later than June 30 of each
				year. Such application shall have the effect of extending the validity of the
				current license until the renewal certificate or the new license is received,
				or the applicant is notified in writing by the department that the renewal of
				license has been refused.
F.
				Contractors (drillers) who fail or refuse to submit their license renewal
				applications, documentation of required continuing education hours, and the
				applicable annual renewal fees to the department by June 30 of each year or
				submit their applications with N.S.F. or account closed checks, will be
				considered delinquent and they will be dropped from the roster of licensed
				drillers. Thereafter, the license may be renewed only upon receipt of the
				completed renewal application, documentation of required continuing education
				hours, and payment of the applicable renewal fee, plus a penalty of $5 for each
				month that the contractor (driller) was delinquent.
G. Delinquency in excess of one year may, at
				the discretion of the advisory committee, be deemed as a waiver of the
				contractor's right for renewal, and if he should apply thereafter, the
				department may require that he be considered as a new applicant, including the
				requirement for examination. Any person whose license has been revoked may,
				upon application for a new license, be required, at the discretion of the
				advisory committee, to take the examination and in all other ways be considered
				as a new applicant.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  38:3098.