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File #: 1619-04    Version: 1 Name: An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, amending the Allegheny County Health Department's Rules and Regulations, Article XV, Plumbing and Building Drainage.
Type: Ordinance Status: Expired by Rule
File created: 7/6/2004 In control: Committee on Health & Human Services
On agenda: Final action: 12/31/2005
Title: An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, amending the Allegheny County Health Department's Rules and Regulations, Article XV, Plumbing and Building Drainage.
Sponsors: Tom Shumaker
Attachments: 1. 1619-04 Legal Opinion from Wojcik.doc
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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, amending the Allegheny County Health Department's Rules and Regulations, Article XV, Plumbing and Building Drainage.

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The Council of the County of Allegheny hereby enacts as follows:

SECTION 1.

Article XV, Plumbing and Building Drainage, of the Allegheny County Health Department's Rules and Regulations is amended as delineated in the following subsections. If a section of the Article is not referenced, it shall remain in its current form. Any section skipped in the amendment of those provisions shall also remain in its current form.

A. Article XV, § 101.3 shall be amended as follows:

101.3 The Department shall approve or disapprove the applications and conduct examinations for licensing of Journeyman and Master plumbers and the registration of apprentice plumbers.

B. Article XV, § 200 shall be amended as follows:

200.1 No person, other than a licensed master plumber, shall engage in the business of plumbing or expose the sign of plumbing or any advertisement pertaining thereto, except wholesale or retail plumbing fixture suppliers.

200.2 Any firm or corporation, desiring to engage in the business of plumbing, shall have at least one member of said firm or corporation in possession of a master plumber's license who shall register with the Department along with the name or names of all officers of the firm or corporation for which he is registering.

200.3 No person other than a licensed master plumber, or a licensed journeyman plumber in the employ of a licensed master plumber, or a registered plumbing apprentice in the employ of a licensed mater plumber, shall install, alter, or make connections with any sewer, water, drain, or any pipe connected therewith; or alter the location of any existing plumbing fixtures, water distribution piping system or sewer drainage system:

Except:

1. Existing single family dwellings: Any permit required by thi...

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