125.01  Title and Purpose	125.05  Certification in Lieu of Licensing
125.02  Licensing Required	125.06  License Not Transferable
125.03  License Not Required; Homeowners	125.07  Certificate of Insurance
125.04  Examination Fee

125.01    TITLE AND PURPOSE.  This chapter shall be known as the City of Marion, Iowa, Plumbing Contractors, Journeyman Plumbers and Pipe Layers Licensing Code.  The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the licensing and insuring of plumbing contractors, journeymen and pipe layers in order to protect public health, safety and welfare.

125.02    LICENSING REQUIRED.  No person shall install, alter, and add to, repair, relocate, replace, or maintain any plumbing system within the City unless such person is licensed as provided in the Metro Plumbers Licensing Agreement as approved by Council Resolution No. 12090, and has obtained a permit for said plumbing work from the Building Official according to the provisions of the Marion Plumbing Code.

125.03    LICENSE NOT REQUIRED; HOMEOWNERS.  Any homeowner may do work in a single-family dwelling in which said homeowner resides or will reside without being licensed provided that said homeowner demonstrates a capability to do such work by successfully passing the homeowner’s examination, and further provided that the homeowner obtains a plumbing permit and otherwise complies with the provisions of the Marion Plumbing Code.  If in the opinion of the Building Official, for projects involving minor remodeling, or repair of plumbing systems by a homeowner, the homeowner demonstrates sufficient knowledge and capabilities to complete the project in compliance with current codes, a plumbing permit may be issued to the homeowner without requiring that a plumbing homeowner’s test be taken.  If an owner does plumbing work on a house under construction based upon such a homeowner’s examination, and sells the dwelling having never resided therein, he or she shall be denied the privilege of doing plumbing work as a homeowner on any subsequent dwelling under construction again.

125.04    EXAMINATION FEE.  The homeowner’s examination fee is $20.00.

125.05    CERTIFICATION IN LIEU OF LICENSING.  Certification by an independent agency qualified and approved by the Licensing Board to make such certification may be accepted in lieu of licensing.  Certification shall state that the plumbing work wholly or partially enclosed within the prefabricated assembly has been inspected by the certifying agency and complies with the Marion Plumbing Code and contains such other information as may be required by the Building Official.

125.06    LICENSE NOT TRANSFERABLE.  It is unlawful for any license holder to transfer a license to another or to allow it to be used, directly or indirectly, by another person.  A license holder shall not obtain permits for more than one contracting person, firm, corporation or other association.

125.07    CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE.  Before any permit for plumbing work shall be issued to a plumbing contractor in the City, the contractor shall file with the Building Department a Certificate of Insurance written by a company authorized to transact business in the State of Iowa in limits of not less than $250,000 liability to any person and $500,000 liability to more than one person on account of any one occurrence, and $500,000 liability for property damage.  The certificate shall be written on a standard form carrying an endorsement naming the City and its employees as additional insured as its interest may appear and conditioned upon the faithful performance of all duties required of such plumbing contractor by this chapter, or by the rules and regulations of the City.  It shall be a further condition of the Certificate of Insurance that the obligators will hold the City harmless from any and all damages sustained by reason of neglect or incompetence on the part of such plumbing contractor, the contractor’s agents or employees in the performance of the work done, or any negligent guarding of hazardous areas or by reason of any other cause growing out of the negligence or carelessness of such plumbing contractor, the contractor’s agents or employees, or the issuance of the license or permit.  The Certificate of Insurance shall be for one year and shall expire no sooner than December 31 of each year, and shall be refiled on or before said date for each subsequent year.  It is the intent and purpose of the Certificate of Insurance also to cover the individual company, firm, association or partnership, whether it be a trade name, corporation or other business association or arrangement with which the plumbing contractor is associated.