§ 37:1378 — Revocation of licenses; other disciplinary actions

§1378. Revocation of licenses; other disciplinary actions
A. The board may, pursuant to the procedures provided in the Administrative
Procedure Act, revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any license or endorsement issued by the
board to any natural person. Grounds for revocation, or lesser disciplinary action, include
but are not limited to the following:
(1) Conviction of a felony.
(2) Falsification of any material portion of a licensee's application or other requisite
submission to the board including but not limited to insurance, work, training, or experience
verifications.
(3) The habitual performance of the work of either a residential plumber limited,
journeyman plumber, or a master plumber which is substantially below the standards
established by the Louisiana Department of Health or any of its agencies or offices, or the
habitual performance of work of a medical gas installer or medical gas and vacuum systems
verifier not in compliance with regulations of the state fire marshal or related local
governmental codes.
(4) The refusal of a master plumber, after notice from the board, to accurately
designate an employment entity in his application, his renewal thereof, or upon any change
in employment status with an employing entity.
(5) The habitual practice of a master plumber to knowingly allow any employing
entity to hold itself out as engaging in the business of plumbing at a time when the
employing entity does not employ the master plumber as designated to the board.
(6) The habitual practice of a residential plumber limited, journeyman plumber,
master plumber, medical gas piping installer, or holder of a water supply protection specialist
endorsement to knowingly allow any person not licensed by the board to perform plumbing
work, medical gas piping installation, or the work of a water supply protection specialist,
except as otherwise authorized by this Chapter.
(7) The violation of municipal or other local plumbing codes not otherwise
preempted by this Chapter or related regulations as evidenced by adjudication before local
governing authorities.
(8) The habitual violation by a master plumber, journeyman plumber, residential
plumber limited, apprentice plumber, medical gas piping installer, medical gas and vacuum
systems verifier, or holder of a water supply protection specialist endorsement of the rules
and regulations adopted by the board.
(9) The habitual violation of any rules or regulations adopted by the board by a gas
fitter or master gas fitter.
(10) The violation of any municipal code, any other code adopted by the board
related to gas fitting not otherwise preempted by this Chapter, or any other related regulation
as evidenced by an adjudication from a local governing authority.
(11) The refusal of a master gas fitter to accurately designate an employing entity or
provide notice of any change in employment with an employing entity.
B. Any licensee whose license is revoked or otherwise restricted as provided herein,
may within fifteen days of written notice by the secretary of the board of such revocation,
appeal suspensively to the district court in the parish of his residence. The district court shall
conduct a trial de novo, but shall not reverse or modify the decision of the board unless it
determines that it is arbitrary and capricious. In the event a licensee presents new evidence
to the district court, the court shall remand the matter to the board for additional fact-finding
and, if appropriate, administrative orders.

Legislative History

Acts 1990, No. 752, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 824, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1020, §1, eff. July 9, 1999; Acts 2016, No. 297, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017; Acts 2016, No. 515, §1; Acts 2024, No. 721, §1.