815 KAR 20:032. Continuing education

requirements for plumbers.

 

      RELATES TO: KRS 318.054, 318.130

      STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 318.054, 318.130

      NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 318.130 authorizes

the department to adopt and put into effect a State Plumbing Code. KRS 318.054

authorizes the department, after review by the State Plumbing Code Committee,

to adopt continuing education requirements for plumbers. This administrative

regulation establishes those requirements.

 

      Section 1. Master Plumbers. (1) Each

master plumber shall provide proof of completion of eight (8) hours of

continuing education prior to license renewal. The required continuing

education shall be received within twelve (12) months prior to renewal except

as provided in subsection (3) of this section.

      (2) Continuing education courses shall

relate to one (1) or more of the following:

      (a) Business;

      (b) Job safety;

      (c) The Kentucky state plumbing code; or

      (d) Items directly related to the

plumbing trade.

      (3) A licensed master plumber who

accumulates more than the eight (8) hours of continuing education required annually,

may carry forward the excess credit hours into the two (2) successive educational

years for the purpose of satisfying the minimum requirement for those two (2)

years.

      (a) Carry forward credits shall be

limited to a total of twelve (12) hours.

      (b) All excess credits above the total of

twelve (12) hours shall remain on the licensed master plumber's records but

shall not be carried forward.

      (4) A licensed master plumber teaching or

participating as a panel member in an approved continuing education course for

plumbing shall be granted one (1) credit hour for each fifty (50) minutes of actual

instruction time.

 

      Section 2. Journeyman Plumbers. (1) Each

journeyman plumber shall provide proof of completion of eight (8) hours of

continuing education prior to license renewal. The required continuing education

shall be received within twelve (12) months prior to renewal except as provided

in subsection (3) of this section.

      (2) Continuing education courses shall consist

of a minimum of two (2) hours on job safety. The other six (6) hours shall consist

of:

      (a) The Kentucky state plumbing code;

      (b) Job safety; or

      (c) Items directly related to the

plumbing trade.

      (3) A licensed journeyman plumber who

accumulates more than the eight (8) hours of continuing education required annually,

may carry forward the excess credit hours into the two (2) successive

educational years for the purpose of satisfying the minimum requirement for

those two (2) years.

      (a) Carry forward credits shall be

limited to a total of twelve (12) hours.

      (b) All excess credits above the total of

twelve (12) hours shall remain on the licensed journeyman plumber's records but

shall not be carried forward.

      (4) A licensed journeyman plumber

teaching or participating as a panel member in an approved continuing education

course for plumbing shall be granted one credit hour for each fifty (50)

minutes of actual instruction time.

 

      Section 3. Combined Master and Journeyman

Licenses. An individual who is a holder of both a master and a journeyman

license shall meet the continuing education requirements of Section 1 of this administrative

regulation.

 

      Section 4. Inactive Master Licenses. (1) An

inactive master plumber shall not required to complete continuing education to

maintain inactive status.

      (2) If the inactive licensed plumber

wishes to activate his or her license to the status of an active master plumber,

he or she shall meet the requirements of Section 1 of this administrative

regulation.

      (3) Any excess continuing education

credit hours that a master plumber may be carrying forward shall not count towards

continuing education requirements for re-activation of an inactive license.

 

      Section 5. Delinquent Licenses. (1)

Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section prior to reinstatement, an

individual whose master or journeyman license is delinquent shall complete the

total number of continuing education hours per year that the license has been

delinquent.

      (2)The number of hours necessary for

reinstatement shall not exceed forty (40) hours.

 

      Section 6. Continuing Education Courses. (1)

All continuing education shall be completed in one (1) or more courses approved

by the department and the Kentucky state plumbing code committee for master and

journeyman plumbers pursuant to 815 KAR 20:034.

      (2) Continuing education courses shall be

offered only by providers approved by the department and the Kentucky State Plumbing

Code Committee pursuant to 815 KAR 20:034. (34 Ky.R. 1330; Am. 1749; eff.

2-1-2008; 37 Ky.R. 864; Am. 1212; eff. 12-3-2010.)