New York Plumbing Licensing Law

New York Code · 4 sections

The following is the full text of New York’s plumbing licensing law statutes as published in the New York Code. For the official version, see the New York Legislature.

N.Y. EDN § 8303

§ 8303. Definition of practice of interior design. For the purposes of this article, the practice of interior design is defined as rendering or offering to render services for a fee or other valuable consideration, in the preparation and administration of interior design documents (including drawings, schedules and specifications) which pertain to the planning and design of interior spaces including furnishings, layouts, fixtures, cabinetry, lighting, finishes, materials, and interior construction not materially related to or materially affecting the building systems, all of which shall comply with applicable laws, codes, regulations, and standards. The scope of work described herein shall not be construed as authorizing the planning and design of engineering and architectural interior construction as related to the building systems, including structural, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning or mechanical systems and shall not be construed as authorizing the practice of engineering or architecture as described in article one hundred forty-five or one hundred forty-seven of this title. The interior design plans as described above are not to be construed as those required to be filed with local municipalities or building departments as required by the state education law regulating the practices of architecture or engineering.

N.Y. Exec. Law § 372

Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Administrator" means the state fire administrator established pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.
"Areas of public assembly" means all buildings or portions of buildings used for gathering together fifty or more persons for amusement, athletic, civic, dining, educational, entertainment, patriotic, political, recreational, religious, social, or similar purposes, the entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means of egress therefrom.
"Building" means a combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall be construed when used herein as though followed by the words "or part or parts thereof" unless the context clearly requires a different meaning. The term "building" shall also mean "factory manufactured home" and "mobile home". The term "building" shall not include a "temporary greenhouse".
"Construction" means the construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, repair, installation of equipment or use of buildings, and requirements or standards relating to or affecting materials used in connection therewith, including provisions for safety and sanitary conditions.
"Council" means the state fire prevention and building code council created by this article.
"Department" means the department of state.
"Equipment" means plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigerating equipment, elevators, dumb waiters, escalators and other mechanical additions or installations.
"Factory manufactured home" means a structure designed primarily for residential occupancy constructed by a method or system of construction whereby the structure or its components are wholly or in substantial part manufactured in manufacturing facilities, intended or designed for permanent installation, or assembly and permanent installation, on a building site.
"Fire area" means the floor area of a story of a building within exterior walls, party walls, fire walls, or any combination thereof.
"Fire protection equipment and systems" means apparatus, assemblies, or systems, either portable or fixed, for use to detect, prevent, control, or extinguish fire.
"Local government" means a village, town (outside the area of any incorporated village) or city.
"Means of egress" means a continuous unobstructed way of exit from any point in a building or structure to a public way. A means of egress comprises the vertical and horizontal ways of travel and includes intervening room spaces, doorways, hallways, corridors, passageways, balconies, ramps, stairs, enclosures, lobbies, escalators, horizontal exits, courts, and yards.
"Mobile home" means a moveable or portable unit designed and constructed to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of frame and wheels, connected to utilities, and designed and constructed without a permanent foundation for year-round living. A unit may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well as two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being again separated into the components for repeated towing. "Mobile home" shall mean units designed to be used exclusively for residential purposes, excluding travel trailers.
"Office" means the office of fire prevention and control created pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.
"Secretary" means the secretary of state.
"State agency" means any department, bureau, commission, board, public authority or other agency of the state, including any public benefit corporation any member of whose board is appointed by the governor.
"Temporary greenhouse" means specialized agricultural equipment having a framework covered with demountable polyurethane materials or materials of polyurethane nature and lacking a permanent and continuous foundation, which is specifically designed, constructed and used for the culture and propagation of horticultural commodities. A "temporary greenhouse" may include, but is not limited to, the use of heating devices, water and electrical utilities, and supporting poles embedded in non-continuous concrete. In no instance will a temporary greenhouse be used for the retail sale of any farm or non-farm products.
"Uniform code" or "code" means the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code promulgated pursuant to section three hundred seventy-seven of this article.
"Truss type construction" means a fabricated structure of wood or steel, made up of a series of members connected at their ends to form a series of triangles to span a distance greater than would be possible with any of the individual members on their own.

N.Y. Exec. Law § 373-A

373-a. Code comparison study and report. 1. Examination and study of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code. a. The secretary, through the department of state's code division, shall perform, oversee, and/or commission a study comparing the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code to the national building and fire codes presently in force and promulgated by Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc (BOCA).

b. The secretary, through the department of state's code division, shall further perform, oversee and/or commission a study comparing the present New York state energy, plumbing, and mechanical codes to the energy, plumbing and mechanical code presently in force and promulgated by Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc (BOCA). The secretary, through the department of state's code division shall also perform, oversee and/or commission a study comparing the present New York state plumbing code to the international plumbing code and the uniform plumbing code.

c. The secretary, through the department of state's code division, shall also perform, oversee and/or commission a study comparing the present provisions of the state, uniform fire prevention and building code relating to fire safety to the provisions of the fire prevention code presently in force and promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA1).

Report on the examination and study of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code. On or before the fifteenth day of November, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, the secretary, through the department of state's code division, shall issue a report on the examinations and studies prescribed by subdivision one of this section, and shall provide a copy of such report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate standing committee on housing, construction and community development, the chair of the assembly standing committee on governmental operations and the chair of the assembly standing committee on housing. Such report shall:

a. Make an express line by line comparison between the provisions of:

(i) the present New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and national building and fire codes presently in force and promulgated by Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc (BOCA);

(ii) the present New York state energy, plumbing, mechanical codes and the energy, plumbing and mechanical code presently in force and promulgated by Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc (BOCA);

(iii) the present New York state plumbing code and the international plumbing code;

(iv) the present New York state plumbing code and the uniform plumbing code;

(v) the present provisions of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code relating to fire safety and the provisions of the fire prevention code presently in force and promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA1); and

b. Report on the similarities of, and differences between each such aforementioned code with respect to:

(i) public safety;

(ii) ease of use and clarity of understanding;

(iii) effectiveness of enforcement;

(iv) ease and effectiveness of administration;

(v) user cost savings;

(vi) compatibility with other state and international codes; and

(vii) potential for promoting economic development.

N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 777

Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
"Builder" means any person, corporation, partnership or other entity contracting with an owner for the construction or sale of a new home.
"Building code" means the uniform fire prevention and building code promulgated under section three hundred seventy-seven of the executive law, local building code standards approved by the uniform fire prevention and building code council under section three hundred seventy-nine of the executive law, and the building code of the city of New York, as defined in title twenty-seven of the administrative code of the city of New York.
"Constructed in a skillful manner" means that workmanship and materials meet or exceed the specific standards of the applicable building code. When the applicable building code does not provide a relevant specific standard, such term means that workmanship and materials meet or exceed the standards of locally accepted building practices.
"Material defect" means actual physical damage to the following load-bearing portions of the home caused by failure of such load-bearing portions which affects their load-bearing functions to the extent that the home becomes unsafe, unsanitary or otherwise unliveable: foundation systems and footings, beams, girders, lintels, columns, walls and partitions, floor systems, and roof framing systems.
"New home" or "home" means any single family house or for-sale unit in a multi-unit residential structure of five stories or less in which title to the individual units is transferred to owners under a condominium or cooperative regime. Such terms do not include dwellings constructed solely for lease, mobile homes as defined in section seven hundred twenty-one of this chapter, or any house or unit in which the builder has resided or leased continuously for three years or more following the date of completion of construction, as evidenced by a certificate of occupancy.
"Owner" means the first person to whom the home is sold and, during the unexpired portion of the warranty period, each successor in title to the home and any mortgagee in possession. Owner does not include the builder of the home or any firm under common control of the builder.
"Plumbing, electrical, heating, cooling and ventilation systems" shall mean:

a. in the case of plumbing systems: gas supply lines and fittings; water supply, waste and vent pipes and their fittings; septic tanks and their drain fields; water, gas and sewer service piping, and their extensions to the tie-in of a public utility connection, or on-site well and sewage disposal system;

b. in the case of electrical systems: all wiring, electrical boxes, switches, outlets and connections up to the public utility connection; and

c. in the case of heating, cooling and ventilation systems: all duct work, steam, water and refrigerant lines, registers, convectors, radiation elements and dampers.

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"Warranty date" means the date of the passing of title to the first owner for occupancy by such owner or such owner's family as a residence, or the date of first occupancy of the home as a residence, whichever first occurs.

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