Section 892.10  Definitions

"Installation" means:

fabrication of a lawn sprinkler system using components that include piping, fittings, valves, sprinkler heads, and pumps;

replacement, repair, alteration, or maintenance of lawn sprinkler system components; or

lawn sprinkler system site preparation, including digging, trenching and vibratory plow operation.

"Irrigation contractor" means a person, other than a licensed plumber or licensed apprentice plumber, who installs or supervises the installation of lawn sprinkler systems subject to Section 2.5 of the Law. (Section 2 of the Law)

"Irrigation employee" means a person, other than a licensed plumber or licensed apprentice plumber, who is employed by a registered irrigation contractor or a licensed plumber, and who designs, repairs, alters, maintains, or installs lawn sprinkler systems that are subject to Section 2.5 of the Law.

"Law" means the Illinois Plumbing License Law [225 ILCS 320].

"Lawn sprinkler system" means any underground irrigation system of lawn, shrubbery and other vegetation from any potable water sources; and from any water sources, whether or not potable. "Lawn sprinkler system" includes without limitation the water supply piping, valves, control systems, low voltage wiring, sprinkler heads or other irrigation outlets, and moisture or rainfall sensing equipment, but does not include the backflow prevention device or final connection of the lawn sprinkler system to the backflow prevention device. "Lawn sprinkler system" does not include an irrigation system used primarily for agricultural purposes. (Section 2 of the Law)  "Lawn sprinkler system" does not include extension, relocation, or modification of up to 200 linear yards of an existing lawn sprinkler system installed at a golf course prior to January 26, 2000. (Section 2.6 of the Law)

(Source:  Amended at 38 Ill. Reg. 22222, effective November 12, 2014)