SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 538
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR RUSSELL.
Pre-filed December 1, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 12, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
Reported from the Committee February 16, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass, with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1.
Taken up for Perfection March 9, 1998. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed, as amended.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
L2290.01P
AN ACT
Relating to licensing of certain construction professionals.
Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 77.505, RSMo, 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 holds himself or herself out as a qualified electrician or plumber within such city, town or village, regardless of whether such person is licensed to perform similar work in another jurisdiction.
2. Any city, town or village authorized to license persons who perform electrical work pursuant to subsection 1 of this section may require a person to pass an electrical work examination that is approved by such city, town or village in order to receive such license.
3. Any city, town or village authorized to license persons who perform plumbing work pursuant to subsection 1 of this section may require a person to pass a plumbing work examination that is approved by such city, town or village in order to receive such license.
4. Any city, town or village authorized to license persons who perform electrical work or plumbing work pursuant to subsection 1 of this section may require the payment of a fee in order for a person to receive such license. Such fee shall be calculated so that the total of all fees collected shall not exceed the cost of administering the provisions of this section.
5. Those persons performing electrical work as part of their employment by any utility, including, but not limited to, any such utility that is created or regulated pursuant to chapter 91, RSMo, chapter 393, RSMo, or chapter 394, RSMo, or as part of their employment by a railroad corporation, as defined in section 388.010, RSMo, shall not 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.