Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0826.01 Duane Gall x4335     HOUSE BILL 14-1189
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Sonnenberg, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Brophy, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning measures to increase the availability of
            plumbing services at reasonable cost in rural
            Colorado.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Under current law, all plumbing work must be performed by or
       under the supervision of a licensed plumber and is subject to inspection
       when completed. The bill relaxes the licensure requirement, but not the
       need for inspection, in a county with a population of 30,000 or less.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 12-58-113, amend
       (6) (a) as follows:
            12-58-113.  Exemptions. (6) (a)  Nothing in this article requires
       a plumbing license, contractor registration, or permit to perform:
            (I)  The installation, extension, alteration, or maintenance,
       including the related water piping and the indirect waste piping, of
       domestic appliances equipped with backflow preventers, including lawn
       sprinkling systems; residential ice makers, humidifiers, electrostatic filter
       washers, or water heating appliances; building heating appliances and
       systems; fire protection systems except for multipurpose residential fire
       sprinkler systems in one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses that
       are part of the potable water supply; air conditioning installations; process
       and industrial equipment and piping systems; or indirect drainage systems
       not a part of a sanitary sewer system; or
            (II)  The repair and replacement of garbage disposal units and
       dishwashers directly connected to the sanitary sewer system, including the
       necessary replacement of all tail pipes and traps, or the repair,
       maintenance, and replacement of sinks, faucets, drains, showers, tubs, and
       toilets; or
            (III)  The installation, extension, alteration, or
       maintenance of plumbing in a residence or business located in a
       county with a population of thirty thousand or less, according
       to the most recent available census figures.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.