Current law requires plumbing inspectors employed by qualified
state institutions of higher education to possess the same qualifications required of state plumbing inspectors. Section 1 of the bill requires the same of inspectors employed by an incorporated town or city, county, or city and county. Section 2 requires state plumbing inspectors or plumbing
inspectors employed by the state, an incorporated town or city, county, city and county, or qualified state institution of higher education (entity) to conduct a contemporaneous review of each plumbing project inspected to ensure compliance with the plumbing law, including specifically licensure and apprentice requirements. However, each entity need not perform a contemporaneous review for each inspection of a project. Each entity shall develop standard procedures to advise inspectors on how to conduct a contemporaneous review. Each entity must post its standard procedures on its public website and provide the director of the division of professions and occupations within the department of regulatory agencies with a link to the web page on which the standard procedures have been posted.
