As used in this chapter:
(1)"Plumbing" means the practice of and the materials and fixtures
used in the installation, maintenance, extension, and alteration of all
piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with any
of the following:
(A)Sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities, the venting
system, and the public or private water supply systems, within or
adjacent to any building or structure.
(B)The practice and materials used in the installation,
maintenance, extension, or alteration of the stormwater, liquid
waste, or sewerage, and water supply systems of any premises to
the private property line or to their connection with any point of
public disposal or other acceptable terminal.
The term does not include the planning, designing, and installation of
sanitati
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As used in this chapter:
(1) "Plumbing" means the practice of and the materials and fixtures
used in the installation, maintenance, extension, and alteration of all
piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with any
of the following:
(A) Sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities, the venting
system, and the public or private water supply systems, within or
adjacent to any building or structure.
(B) The practice and materials used in the installation,
maintenance, extension, or alteration of the stormwater, liquid
waste, or sewerage, and water supply systems of any premises to
the private property line or to their connection with any point of
public disposal or other acceptable terminal.
The term does not include the planning, designing, and installation of
sanitation and water systems in vehicles commonly known as mobile
homes, the drilling of wells, the installation of pumps, pressure tanks,
and piping incidental to the drilling or repair of a well system, the sale
or installation of water softening equipment and apparatuses and
services of the same, or the business of manufacturing or selling
plumbing fixtures; appliances, equipment, or hardware; the installation
of automatic sprinklers, the overhead or underground water supplies or
standpipes when connected to an automatic sprinkler system or to their
related devices or appurtenances connecting thereto; nor does the term
include the work referred to in section 32(i) of this chapter; nor does
the term include the planning or design of water supply or sewage
systems which would ordinarily be performed as "the practice of
engineering", as defined in IC 25-31-1, or the "practice of architecture",
as defined in IC 25-4-1.
(2) "Plumbing contractor" means any person who, for compensation,
undertakes to, or submits a bid to, or does himself or herself or by
others, construct, repair, alter, remodel, add to, subtract from, or
improve plumbing and who is responsible for substantially all the
plumbing within the entire project, or one who fabricates units or
plumbing substantially completed and ready for installation.
(3) "Journeyman plumber" means a person who engages or offers to
engage in, as an occupation or trade, the construction, installation,
alteration, maintenance, repair, remodeling, or removal and
replacement of plumbing under the supervision, direction, and
responsibility of a licensed plumbing contractor.
(4) "Maintenance man" means a person who is employed on a
permanent basis to keep the premises of a business establishment in
good repair.
(5) "Contracting" means, except as exempted in this chapter,
engaging in a business as a contractor.
(6) "Person" means a natural person, except in the case of a
plumbing contractor, in which case it may mean the partners or
members of a partnership, limited partnership, or any form of
unincorporated enterprise, owned by two (2) or more persons, and as
applied to "corporation" in addition to the corporate entity means the
officers or directors and employees thereof.
(7) "Commission" means the Indiana plumbing commission created
by this chapter.
(8) "License" means a certificate issued by the commission
established by this chapter which confers upon the holder the privilege
to act as a plumbing contractor or a journeyman plumber as defined in
this chapter.
(9) "Farmstead" means a farm dwelling together with other
buildings, structures, equipment, piping, and other plumbing materials
and supplies, located upon a parcel of real estate used primarily for
agricultural purposes located outside the corporate limits of a
municipality and not connected to a public water supply.
(10) "Licensing agency" means the Indiana professional licensing
agency established under IC 25-1-5-3.
(11) "Apprentice plumber" means an individual who:
(A) is learning the plumbing trade; and
(B) is under the direction and immediate supervision of a licensed
plumbing contractor or a licensed journeyman plumber.
(12) "Registration" means the granting of a certificate by the
commission that authorizes an individual to act as an apprentice
plumber.
Formerly: Acts 1972, P.L.188, SEC.1. As amended by Acts
1981, P.L.222, SEC.202; P.L.132-1984, SEC.36; P.L.248-1985, SEC.1;
P.L.1-2006, SEC.469.