This text of New Hampshire § 482-B:5 (Licensing for Water Well Contractors and Pump Installers) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Hampshire primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
I. A person, before engaging in the business of constructing a well or installing a pump, shall obtain the proper license annually as a water well contractor or pump installer. A license shall not be transferable and shall expire on June 30 of each year. After July 31 of each year, a license may be renewed only upon application for renewal and payment of a late fee of $20 in addition to the regular license fee.
II. The water well contractor's license and the pump installer's license shall contain the following information, in addition to such other information as the board may require:
(a)The name of the licensed water well contractor or licensed pump installer.
(b)If the licensee is a partnership, the names and addresses of all partners.
(c)If the licensee is a corporation, the name an
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I. A person, before engaging in the business of constructing a well or installing a pump, shall obtain the proper license annually as a water well contractor or pump installer. A license shall not be transferable and shall expire on June 30 of each year. After July 31 of each year, a license may be renewed only upon application for renewal and payment of a late fee of $20 in addition to the regular license fee.
II. The water well contractor's license and the pump installer's license shall contain the following information, in addition to such other information as the board may require:
(a) The name of the licensed water well contractor or licensed pump installer.
(b) If the licensee is a partnership, the names and addresses of all partners.
(c) If the licensee is a corporation, the name and principal address of the corporation and the names and addresses of all officers, directors, and stockholders of the corporation; except that this requirement shall not apply to a publicly held corporation.
(d) If the licensee is an individual, the name and address of the individual.
III. Water well contractors and pump installers shall be required to have been actively engaged in their trade for a period of 3 years prior to the date of their application and to pass an examination prepared and administered by the board. The required 3 years experience shall be directly related to the type of license to be issued. One year of experience for drilling contractors shall be in drilling water wells in crystalline rocks of the Appalachian Region.
IV. The board may issue an appropriate license without examination to a person to whom a water well contractor's license or a pump installer's license has been previously issued by another state if the other state maintained a standard of requirements equivalent to those of this state and who presents satisfactory proof to the board that he is a bona fide water well contractor or pump installer. An applicant under this paragraph shall be exempt from examination only if he holds a license from another state and, if under the laws or rules of the other state issuing the license, a like exemption is granted to water well contractors or pump installers duly licensed under the laws of this state.
V. Pump installers shall complete a minimum of 2 hours annually of continuing education.