Chap. 347.—An ACT to amend section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Buckingham Tramroad Company, approved March 6, 1900, so as to extend
the time in which said company shal] commence its work.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section ten
f an act to incorporate the Buckingham Tramroad Company, approved
{arch sixth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
s follows:

§10. The construction of said tramroad or tramroads shall com-
nence not later than the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
our, and be completed not later than the first day of January, nineteen
undred and six.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in all cities
in the State of Virginia having a population of more than eight thou-
sand inhabitants there shall be a board for the examination of plumbers
of four members, consisting of one member, to be known as the chief
health officer of the city,and one member, to be known as the plumbing in-
spector of the city; one journeyman plumber, and one master plumber,
all of whom shall be residents of the city in which their duties are to be
performed, and the plumbing inspector, journeyman, and master plumb-
ers shall be licensed plumbers. The members of said board shall be se-
lected as the councils of the respective cities may determine, and said
councils shall also prescribe the terms of office of the several members of
such board, and the method of their removal from office. The terms of
office of such chief health officers and plumbing inspectors as may be in
office when this act shall go into effect shall not be affected hereby, and
they shall be constituted members of their respective boards for the term
for which they may have been elected. —

2. The persons who compose the first plumbing board under this act
shall, within ten days after their appointment, meet in their respective
city building, or place designated by the city council, and organize by
the selection of one of their number as chairman, and the plumbing in-
spector shall be secretary of said board. It shall be the duty of the sec-
retary to keep full, true, and correct minutes and records of all licenses
issued by it, together with their kinds and dates and the names of per-
sons to whom issued, in books to be provided by such city for that pur-
pose, which books and records shall be in all business hours open for free
inspection by all persons.

3. The said board shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to adopt
rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the State or the
ordinances of the city for the sanitary construction, alteration, and in-
spection of plumbing and sewerage connections and drains placed in or
in connection with any and every building in such city, in which it will
prescribe the kind and size of material to be used in such plumbing, and
the manner in which such work shall be done.

4. The board shall fix stated times and places of meeting, which times
shall not be less than once in every two weeks, and may be held oftener
upon written call of the chairman of the board, and the board shall adopt
rules for the examination, at such times and places, of all persons who
desire a license to work at the construction or repairing of plumbing
within the said city.

5. Any person not already licensed as herein provided desiring to
work at the business of plumbing in any such city shall make written
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application to the said board for examination for a license, which exami-
nation shall be made at the next meeting of the board, or as soon there-
after as practicable, and said board shall examine said applicant as to
his practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage and plumbing,
ventilation and sanitation, which examination shall be practical as well
as theoretical, and if the applicant has shown himself competent, the
plumbing board shall cause its chairman and secretary to execute and de-
liver to the applicant a license authorizing him to do plumbing in such
city.

6. All licenses may be renewed by the board at the dates of their ex-
piration. Such renewal licenses shall be granted, without a re-examina-
tion, upon a written application of the licensee filed with the board and
showing that his purposes and conditions remain unchanged, unless it is
made to appear by affidavit before the board that the applicant is no
longer competent or entitled to such renewal license, in which event the
renewal license shall not be granted until the applicant has undergone the
examination hereinbefore required.

7. All licenses shall be good for one year from their dates, provided
that any license may be revoked by the board at any time upon a hearing
upon sufficient written, sworn charges filed with the board, showing the
holder of the license to be then incompetent or guilty of a wilful breach
of the rules, regulations, or requirements of the board, or of the laws or
ordinances relating thereto, or of other causes sufficient for the revoking
of his license, of which charges and hearing the holder of such license
shall have written notice.

8. It shall be unlawful for any person to do any plumbing in any
such city of this State unless he be licensed as herein provided.

9. The fee for the original license of a journeyman plumber shall be
one dollar. All renewal fees shall be fifty cents. All license fees shall
be paid, prior to the execution and delivery of the license, to the treas-
urer of the city for which the license was issued.

10. The city plumbing inspector shall inspect all plumbing work in
process of construction, alteration, or repair within his respective juris-
diction, and for which a permit either has or has not been granted, and
shall report to said board all violations of any law or ordinance, or rule
or regulation of the board, in connection with the plumbing work being
done, and also shall perform such other appropriate duties as may be re-
quired of him by said board. The city council of such city may provide
for the election of one or more assistant inspectors if deemed advisable
to assist in the performance of the duties of the inspector, who shall be
practical licensed plumbers.

11. The inspector shall be required to stop any defective plumbing not
being done in accordance with the requirements of the rules and regula-
tions therefor of the board, and the plumbing board shall have the power
to cause such defective or insufficient work to be torn out and removed if,
after notice to the owner or plumber doing the work, the board shall find
the work or any part thereof to be really defective and insufficient.

12. The appointment of the board shall be within thirty days from
the taking effect of this act. And where such city has a chief health
officer and plumbing inspector, they shall act as members of such board
ex-officio.

13. The salaries of the members of the board and the assistant in-
spectors shall be prescribed by the city councils in their respective cities.

14. Any person violating any provision of this act or of any lawful
ordinances, or rules and regulations, authorized by this act shall be
deemed. guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding fifty
nor less than five dollars for each and every violation thereof, and if
such persons hold a plumber’s license, it may, in the discretion of the
board, be forfeited, and he shall not be entitled to another plumber’s
license for the space of one year after such forfeiture is declared against
him by the board.

15. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.

16. Any city or town in the Commonwealth of eight thousand inhabi-
tants or less may bring itself within the terms of this act by ordinance,
and in such case shall be subject to all the provisions hereof. The cities
of Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Danville, or either of them, may be ex-
empted from the operations of this act by ordinance of their respective
councils.

17%. This act shall be in force from its passage.