§34-37-15. Acts, works, and conduct permitted, without license; applicability of chapter.

(a) The following acts, work, and conduct may be performed by anyone, without license or certificate, provided, however, that all work and services herein named or referred to shall be subject to an inspection and approval in accordance with the terms of all state laws and applicable municipal ordinances:

(1) Gas fitting work done by anyone who is regularly employed or acting as a maintenance man acting under the supervision of a maintenance engineer or maintenance engineer incidental to and in connection with the business in which he or she is employed and engaged, provided the gas fitting work is done on the premises of the employer, and who does not engage in the occupation of a plumber or gas fitter for the general public.

(2) Maintenance and reinstallation work done upon the premises or equipment of a railroad, other businesses or industry, by an employee thereof who does not engage in the occupation of a plumber or gas fitter for the general public.

(3) Plumbing or gas fitting work done by persons engaged by any public utility company in the laying, maintenance, and operation of its service mains or lines and the installation, alteration, adjustment, repair, removal, and renovation of all types of appurtenances, equipment, and appliances, provided such plumbing work does not necessitate tying into waste or sewer lines on the outlet side of a trap or alter gas piping on consumer side of meter.

(4) Appliances or fixture installations and service work done in connecting appliances or fixtures to existing piping installations.

(b) Any person may install washing machines to existing piping installation or waste lines, provided such plumbing work does not necessitate tying into waste or sewer lines on the outlet side of the trap.

(c) This chapter shall not apply to any natural gas utility company having fewer than 350 employees that is regulated by the Alabama Public Service Commission.

(d) This chapter does not apply to any plumbing work done by a property owner in or about a building owned or occupied by him or her, or plumbing work done by anyone who is regularly employed by the property owner to provide maintenance or other repair services if the work is incidental to and in connection with the property for which he or she is employed and engaged and is done on the premises of the employer.

(Acts 1987, No. 87-812, p. 1616, §15; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-918, p. 512, §1(7); Acts 1989, No. 89-406, p. 858, §3; Acts 1992, No. 92-182, p. 340, §3; Act 2011-152, p. 282, §3.)