As used in this article 155, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Board means the state plumbing board created in section 12-155-104.
(1.2) Colorado fuel gas code means a code adopted by rule of the board for
the inspection of plumbing fuel gas pipe installations.
(1.4) Colorado plumbing code or the code means a code established by
the board that consists of standards for plumbing installation, plumbing materials,
conservation, medical gas, sanitary drainage systems, and solar plumbing that
could directly affect the potable water supply.
(1.6) (a) Conservation means efficiency measures that meet national
guidelines and standards and are tested and approved by a nationally recognized
testing laboratory, including:
(I) Water-efficient devices and fixtures; and
(II) The use of locally produced materials, when practicable, to reduce
transportation impacts.
(b) When conservation conflicts with safety, the board shall give primary
consideration to safety.
(c) Nothing in this subsection (1.6) affects the board's authority to establish
the Colorado plumbing code as specified in section 12-155-106.
(2) Gas piping means any arrangement of piping used to convey fuel gas,
supplied by one meter, and each arrangement of gas piping serving a building,
structure, or premises, whether individually metered or not. Gas piping or gas
piping system does not include the installation of gas appliances where existing
service connections are already installed, nor does the term include the
installations, alterations, or maintenance of gas utilities owned by a public utility
certified pursuant to article 5 of title 40 or a public utility owned or acquired by a
city or town pursuant to article 32 of title 31.
(3) Journeyworker plumber means any person, other than a master
plumber, residential plumber, or plumbing apprentice, who engages in or works at
the actual installation, alteration, repair, and renovation of plumbing in accordance
with the standards and rules established by the board.
(4) Master plumber means a person who has the necessary qualifications,
training, experience, and technical knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and install
and repair plumbing apparatus and equipment including the supervision of such in
accordance with the standards and rules established by the board.
(5) to (7) Repealed.
(8) (a) Plumbing includes the following items located within the building or
extending five feet from the building foundation, excluding any service line
extending from the first joint to the property line: All potable water supply and
distribution pipes and piping; all plumbing fixtures and traps; all drainage and vent
pipes; all water conditioning appliances connected to the potable water system; all
building drains, including their respective joints and connections, devices,
receptacles, and appurtenances; all multipurpose residential fire sprinkler systems
in one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses that are part of the potable water
supply; and all medical gas and vacuum systems in health-care facilities.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (8)(a) of this section, the following is not
included within the definition of plumbing:
(I) Installations, extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and
alterations in water and sewer systems owned or acquired by counties pursuant to
article 20 of title 30, cities and towns pursuant to article 35 of title 31, or water and
sanitation districts pursuant to article 1 or article 4 of title 32; or
(II) Installations, extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and
alterations performed by contractors employed by counties, cities, towns, or water
and sewer districts that connect to the plumbing system within a property line; or
(III) Performance, location, construction, alteration, installation, and use of
on-site wastewater treatment systems pursuant to article 10 of title 25 that are
located within a property line.
(9) Plumbing apprentice means any person, other than a master,
journeyworker, or residential plumber, who, as the person's principal occupation, is
engaged in learning and assisting in the installation of plumbing.
(10) Plumbing contractor means any person, firm, partnership, corporation,
association, or other organization that undertakes or offers to undertake for
another the planning, laying out, supervising, installing, or making of additions,
alterations, and repairs in the installation of plumbing. In order to act as a plumbing
contractor, the person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other
organization must either be or employ a full-time master plumber. Plumbing
contractor does not include a water conditioning contractor, a water conditioning
installer, or a water conditioning principal.
(11) Potable water means water that is safe for drinking, culinary, and
domestic purposes and that meets the requirements of the department of public
health and environment.
(12) Qualified state institution of higher education means:
(a) One of the state institutions of higher education established under,
specified in, and located upon the campuses described in sections 23-20-101 (1)(a)
and 23-31-101, limited to the buildings owned or leased by those institutions on
those campuses;
(b) The institution whose campus is established under and specified in
section 23-20-101 (1)(b), but limited to the buildings located in Denver at 1380
Lawrence street, 1250 Fourteenth street, and 1475 Lawrence street; and
(c) The institution whose campus is established under and specified in
section 23-20-101 (1)(d), but limited to current and future buildings owned or leased
or built on land owned on or before January 1, 2015, by the university of Colorado on
the campus described in section 23-20-101 (1)(d).
(13) Residential plumber means any person, other than a master or
journeyworker plumber or plumbing apprentice, who has the necessary
qualifications, training, experience, and technical knowledge, as specified by the
board, to install plumbing and equipment in one-, two-, three-, and four-family
dwellings, which dwellings must not extend more than two stories aboveground.
(13.5) Tiny home has the meaning set forth in section 24-32-3302 (35).
(14) (a) Water conditioning contractor means a person that is not a
plumbing contractor and that:
(I) Undertakes or offers to undertake for another the planning, laying out,
supervising, installing, or making of additions, alterations, or repairs in the
installation of water conditioning appliances in one-, two-, three-, or four-family
dwellings, which dwellings must not extend more than two stories aboveground;
and
(II) Is required to be registered pursuant to section 12-155-108 (4).
(b) Repealed.
(15) (a) Water conditioning installer means a person that is not a licensed
plumber and that:
(I) Has the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and install water conditioning appliances in
one-, two-, three-, and four-family dwellings, which dwellings must not extend more
than two stories aboveground, in accordance with the standards and rules
established by the board;
(II) Is certified by a national water conditioning association recognized by the
board, with the type of certification specified by the board; and
(III) Is required to be registered pursuant to section 12-155-108 (5).
(b) Repealed.
(16) (a) Water conditioning principal means a person that is not a licensed
plumber and that:
(I) Has the necessary qualifications, training, experience, and technical
knowledge to properly plan, lay out, and install water conditioning appliances in
one-, two-, three-, and four-family dwellings, which dwellings must not extend more
than two stories aboveground, including the supervision of the work in accordance
with the standards and rules established by the board;
(II) Is certified by a national water conditioning association recognized by the
board, with the type of certification specified by the board; and
(III) Is required to be registered pursuant to section 12-155-108 (6).
(b) Repealed.