Public Act 094-0132
 
HB0930 Enrolled LRB094 07288 RAS 37446 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Plumbing License Law is amended by
changing Sections 18 and 37 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 320/18)  (from Ch. 111, par. 1117)
    Sec. 18. Local regulation; Department standards.
    (1) It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State
that each city, town, village, township or county with a water
supply system or sewage disposal system or both should so soon
after the enactment of this Act as practicable, with the advice
of the State Department of Public Health, provide by ordinance,
bylaws or rules and regulations for the materials,
construction, alteration, and inspection of all plumbing
placed in or in connection with any building in any such city,
town, village, township, or county and to provide for and
appoint a competent Plumbing Inspector or more as required. The
Department may by rule establish voluntary standards for the
content and conduct of local plumbing regulation and inspection
programs and may evaluate and certify local programs that are
in compliance with the voluntary standards. The Department may
by rule establish voluntary education, training, and
experience standards for Plumbing Inspectors and may certify
Plumbing Inspectors who are in compliance with the voluntary
standards. Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit any
city, town, village, township or county from providing for a
Plumbing Inspector or from requiring permits for the
installation and repair of plumbing and collecting a fee
therefor, but a city, town, village, township, or county that
requires a permit for installation and repair of plumbing may
not issue that permit without verification that the applicant
has a valid plumbing license or that the applicant is the owner
occupant of a single family residence that is the subject of
the permit. For the purpose of this Section, the term
"occupant" has the same meaning as in subsection (2) of Section
3 of this Act. No person shall be appointed as a Plumbing
Inspector who is not a licensed plumber under this Act,
including persons employed as Plumbing Inspectors in home rule
units.
    (2) The Department of Public Health shall conduct inquiry
in any city, town, village, township, or county or at any other
place in the State when reasonably necessary in the judgment of
the Director of the Department of Public Health to safeguard
the health of any person or persons in this State, on account
of piping or appurtenant appliances within any building, or
outside, when such piping and appliances are for the use of
plumbing as defined in this Act and for the use of carrying
sewage or waste within or from any building.
    The Department of Public Health may conduct such inquiries
in any city, town, village, township or county in this State by
directing the Plumbing Inspector thereof to aid in or conduct
such inquiry or investigation in behalf of the Department of
Public Health or the Department of Public Health may designate
some other person or persons to conduct such investigation.
(Source: P.A. 90-714, eff. 8-7-98.)
 
    (225 ILCS 320/37)  (from Ch. 111, par. 1135)
    Sec. 37. Each governmental unit which is authorized to
adopt and has adopted any ordinance or resolution regulating
plumbing may provide for its administration and enforcement by
requiring permits for any plumbing system installation, the
inspection of plumbing system installations by inspectors who
are licensed as plumbers in accordance with the Illinois
Plumbing License Law, and the issue of certificates of approval
or compliance which shall be evidence that a plumbing system
has been installed in compliance with the Code of standards so
adopted.
    A letter of intent shall be included with all plumbing
permit applications. The letter shall be written on the
licensed plumber of record's business stationery and shall
include the license holder's signature and, if the license
holder is incorporated, the license holder's corporate seal. If
the license holder is not incorporated, the letter must be
notarized.
    A governmental unit authorized to adopt regulations may, by
ordinance or resolution, prescribe reasonable fees for the
issue of permits for installation work, the issue of
certificates of compliance or approval, and for the inspection
of plumbing installations.
(Source: P.A. 79-1000.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.