Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 260 - Department of Labor and Training › Chapter 30 - Workforce Regulation and Safety › Subchapter 15 - Professional Regulation › Part 9 - Licensing of Plumbers, Irrigators and Water System Installers (260-RICR-30-15-9) › Section 260-RICR-30-15-9.3 - Licensure Requirements R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-20

Current through June 14, 2024
A.
				 General Requirements
1. Pursuant to R.I. Gen.
				 Laws §
											5-20-8 as amended, no person shall engage in this state in the business of plumbing or
				 irrigation, or commercial water-filtration/treatment work as a master
				 water-filtration/treatment-system installer; employ a journeyperson plumber or
				 journeyperson irrigator, or journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system
				 installer; or plumbing or irrigation, or water-filtration/treatment-system
				 installer, apprentice, enter into contracts or agreements for the installation,
				 maintenance or repair of plumbing or irrigation, or
				 water-filtration/treatment-systems; perform any of the acts specified in the
				 act for performance by a master plumber or master irrigator, or master
				 water-filtration/treatment-system installer; shall advertise or represent in
				 any form or manner that he or she is a master plumber master irrigator, or
				 master water-filtration/treatment-system installer; that he or she will install
				 plumbing, irrigation, or commercial water-filtration/treatment-systems, unless
				 such a person possesses a certificate of license in accordance with the
				 provisions of the act and the rules and regulations herein.
2. Furthermore, any individual licensed as a
				 master plumber, master irrigator, master water-filtration/treatment-system
				 installer, journeyperson plumber, journeyperson irrigator, or, journeyperson
				 water-filtration/treatment-system installer, registered as an apprentice
				 plumber, apprentice irrigator, apprentice water-filtration/treatment-system
				 installer shall carry his or her license or registration certificate at all
				 times on his or her person while engaged in plumbing, or irrigator's
				 irrigation, or water-filtration/activities and shall affix his or her plumber's
				 or irrigator's, or water-filtration/treatment system installer's contractor
				 license number to any contract he or she executes or any bid filed with any
				 person for their professional services and to any applicable permit required
				 for the performance of those services.
3. Persons licensed as master plumbers or
				 master irrigators, or master water-filtration/treatment system installers
				 pursuant to the provisions herein shall not be required to obtain an installers
				 license as required by R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-56-1 as
				 amended: however, master plumbers, master irrigators, and master
				 water-filtration/treatment system installers shall be required to comply with
				 the performance and conduct requirements of R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-56-7 as amended.
4. Corporations, firms,
				 associations, partnerships and entities must engage in business in accordance
				 with R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-20-12.
5. Supervision:
a. Apprentice plumbers shall be under the
				 direct supervision of a licensed journeyperson and/or master plumber.
b. Apprentice irrigators shall be under the
				 direct supervision of a master and or journeyperson irrigator.
c. Apprentice
				 water-filtration/treatment-system installer shall be under the direct
				 supervision of a master and or journeyperson water-filtration/treatment-system
				 installer.
6. No
				 licensee shall engage in business under any other name than that stated on
				 his/her license.