FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 590
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR RUSSELL.
Read 1st time February 28, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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AN ACT
To amend chapter 67, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to licensing of certain construction personnel.
Section A. Chapter 67, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 67.322, to read as follows:
67.322. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 77.505, RSMo, to the contrary, any city, town or village in any county of the third classification may provide, by ordinance, for the licensing of persons who perform electrical work or plumbing work for compensation or who hold themselves out as qualified electricians or plumbers within such city, town or village, regardless of whether such persons are licensed to perform similar work in another jurisdiction.
2. Any city, town or village authorized pursuant to subsection 1 of this section to license any person who performs electrical work may require that person, prior to receiving such license, to pass an electrical work examination that is approved by the city, town or village.
3. Any city, town or village authorized pursuant to subsection 1 of this section to license any person who performs plumbing work may require that person, prior to receiving such license, to pass a plumbing work examination that is approved by the city, town or village.
4. Any city, town or village authorized pursuant to subsection 1 of this section to license persons who perform electrical work or plumbing work may require the payment of a fee for issuance of such license. Such fee shall be calculated so that the total of all fees collected shall not exceed the costs of administering the provisions of this section.
5. No person performing electrical work as part of his or her employment by any utility, including but not limited to any utility that is created or regulated pursuant to chapter 91, RSMo, chapter 393, RSMo, or chapter 394, RSMo, or by a railroad corporation, as defined in section 388.010, RSMo, shall be subject to licensure pursuant to this section.
6. No electrician or plumber who is employed on a full-time basis, and not as an independent contractor, by a company to do electrical or plumbing installation or maintenance for such company on such company's property shall be subject to licensure pursuant to the provisions of this section.