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                         SENATE BILL 6624

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

 

By Senator McCaslin

 

Read first time 01/23/98.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

Exempting backflow protection devices from plumbing regulations.


    AN ACT Relating to backflow protection devices; amending RCW 18.106.010 and 18.106.010; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 18.106.010 and 1995 c 282 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter shall have the following meaning:

    (1) "Advisory board" means the state advisory board of plumbers;

    (2) "Department" means the department of labor and industries;

    (3) "Director" means the director of department of labor and industries;

    (4) "Journeyman plumber" means any person who has been issued a certificate of competency by the department of labor and industries as provided in this chapter;

    (5) "Medical gas piping" means oxygen, nitrous oxide, high pressure nitrogen, medical compressed air, and medical vacuum systems;

    (6) "Specialty plumber" means anyone who has been issued a specialty certificate of competency limited to installation, maintenance, and repair of the plumbing of single family dwellings, duplexes, and apartment buildings which do not exceed three stories;

    (7) "Plumbing" means that craft involved in installing, altering, repairing and renovating potable water systems, liquid waste systems, and medical gas piping systems within a building:  PROVIDED, That neither installation in a water system of water softening or water treatment equipment ((shall not be)) nor installation, testing, or repair of backflow protection devices by certified backflow assembly testers are within the meaning of plumbing as used in this chapter.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 18.106.010 and 1997 c 326 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter shall have the following meaning:

    (1) "Advisory board" means the state advisory board of plumbers;

    (2) "Department" means the department of labor and industries;

    (3) "Director" means the director of department of labor and industries;

    (4) "Journeyman plumber" means any person who has been issued a certificate of competency by the department of labor and industries as provided in this chapter;

    (5) "Medical gas piping" means oxygen, nitrous oxide, high pressure nitrogen, medical compressed air, and medical vacuum systems;

    (6) "Medical gas piping installer" means a journeyman plumber who has been issued a medical gas piping installer endorsement;

    (7) "Plumbing" means that craft involved in installing, altering, repairing and renovating potable water systems, liquid waste systems, and medical gas piping systems within a building.  Neither installation in a water system of water softening or water treatment equipment ((is not)) nor installation, testing, or repair of backflow protection devices by certified backflow assembly testers are within the meaning of plumbing as used in this chapter;

    (8) "Specialty plumber" means anyone who has been issued a specialty certificate of competency limited to installation, maintenance, and repair of the plumbing of single-family dwellings, duplexes, and apartment buildings that do not exceed three stories.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act expires July 1, 1998.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.  Section 2 of this act takes effect July 1, 1998.

 


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