Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-32. Exceptions to application of chapter
(1) Contractors in work on bridges, roads, streets, highways, railroads, or utilities and services incidental to the work.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-32
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Farmstead: means a farm dwelling together with other buildings, structures, equipment, piping, and other plumbing materials and supplies, located upon a parcel of real estate used primarily for agricultural purposes located outside the corporate limits of a municipality and not connected to a public water supply. See Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-2
- Journeyman plumber: means a person who engages or offers to engage in, as an occupation or trade, the construction, installation, alteration, maintenance, repair, remodeling, or removal and replacement of plumbing under the supervision, direction, and responsibility of a licensed plumbing contractor. See Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-2
- Person: means a natural person, except in the case of a plumbing contractor, in which case it may mean the partners or members of a partnership, limited partnership, or any form of unincorporated enterprise, owned by two (2) or more persons, and as applied to "corporation" in addition to the corporate entity means the officers or directors and employees thereof. See Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-2
- Plumbing: means the practice of and the materials and fixtures used in the installation, maintenance, extension, and alteration of all piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with any of the following:
Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-2
- Plumbing contractor: means any person who, for compensation, undertakes to, or submits a bid to, or does himself or herself or by others, construct, repair, alter, remodel, add to, subtract from, or improve plumbing and who is responsible for substantially all the plumbing within the entire project, or one who fabricates units or plumbing substantially completed and ready for installation. See Indiana Code 25-28.5-1-2
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(3) An officer appointed by a court when the officer is acting within the scope of the officer’s office as defined by law or court order. When construction projects are not underway at the time of the appointment of the officer by the court, and the nature of the officer’s appointment requires that plumbing must be done, the officer must employ or contract with a registered plumbing contractor or journeyman plumber.
(4) Public utilities with respect to construction, maintenance, and development work performed by their own forces and incidental to their business.
(5) The owner occupant of a dwelling of eight (8) or less residential units when the owner occupant is installing, altering, or repairing the plumbing system of the residential units.
(6) Construction, alteration, improvement, or repair of a plumbing system, located on a site, the title of which is in the name of the United States of America, or to construction, alteration, improvement, or repair on a project where federal law supersedes this article.
(7) An individual who is employed or acts as a maintenance person at the individual’s place of employment.
(8) Farmsteads, except for buildings built on the farmstead for the purpose of public or commercial use.
(9) A sewer contractor, sewage disposal contractor, or an excavation contractor or utility contractor who generally engages in the business of installing, altering, or repairing sewers, private or public sewage disposal systems, and water distribution or drainage lines outside the foundation walls of a building.
Formerly: Acts 1972, P.L.188, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.166, SEC.4; Acts 1981, P.L.222, SEC.219; P.L.241-1989, SEC.6.