Idaho Boiler & Pressure Vessel Law

Idaho Code · 4 sections

The following is the full text of Idaho’s boiler & pressure vessel law statutes as published in the Idaho Code. For the official version, see the Idaho Legislature.

Idaho Code 54-2602

(1) Certificate of competency requirements of this chapter shall not be deemed to apply to: (a)  Any person who does plumbing work in a single or duplex family dwelling, including accessory buildings, quarters and grounds in connection with such dwelling; provided that such person owns or is a contract purchaser of the premises, and provided further that such person shall comply with the minimum standards and rules applicable to plumbing practices provided by this chapter. (b)  Farm buildings located outside the incorporated limits of any city unless such buildings are connected to a public water or sewer system; and a farm building is hereby defined to be a structure located on agricultural zoned property and designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other horticultural products and includes sheds, barns, corrals or fences. This definition does not include a place for human habitation or a place of regular employment where agricultural products are extracted, processed, treated or packaged; a place used by the public; or conditioned livestock housing. (c)  Logging, mining or construction camps when plumbing installations are made to conform with the recommendations of the department of environmental quality. (d)  Piping systems in industrial processing plants located outside the incorporated limits of any city unless such systems are connected to a public water or sewer system. (e)  Work on plumbing systems on premises owned or operated by an employer who regularly employs maintenance or construction plumbers, provided that alterations, extensions and new construction shall comply with the minimum standards and rules applicable to plumbing practices provided by this chapter. (f)  Nothing contained in this section or any other provision of this code shall be construed or applied to require a sewer contractor, sewage disposal contractor, or any excavating or utility contractor who generally engages in the business of installing, altering or repairing sewers, private and public sewage disposal systems, and water distribution and/or drainage lines outside the foundation walls of any building or structure to obtain a valid contractor’s certificate of competency or to employ only journeymen plumbers possessing a valid journeyman plumber’s certificate of competency or registration or to in any way require that his employees be registered, licensed or declared competent by the board. (g)  Water treatment installations and repairs when installed in residential or business properties, provided the same, when installed, repaired or completed, shall be inspected by a designated, qualified and properly identified agent of the division of occupational and professional licenses as to quality of workmanship and compliance with the applicable provisions of this chapter. (h)  Plumbing work within modular buildings as defined in section39-4301, Idaho Code, that are constructed in the state of Idaho for installation on building sites outside the state; provided however, that no modular building shall be installed on a building site in the state of Idaho until it has been approved and bears the insignia of approval of the division as being in compliance with the requirements set forth in section39-4304, Idaho Code. (i)  Individuals holding a current installer license pursuant to the provisions ofchapter 21, title 44, Idaho Code, may make connections from manufactured home or mobile home sewer or water facilities to existing sewer or water facilities on-site. (j)  Individuals licensed pursuant tochapter 10, title 54, Idaho Code, orchapter 50, title 54, Idaho Code, as follows: (i)   Individuals holding a current HVAC or electrical license may install electrical circuitry from the disconnecting means to a water heater and electrical connections to the water heater as long as the disconnect is in sight from the unit and the circuit from the disconnecting means to the water heater is no more than fifty (50) feet long. (ii)  Individuals holding a current HVAC license may install gas piping and piping for hydronic systems. (iii) Individuals holding a current HVAC license may install boilers that are not otherwise subject to inspection by the industrial commission or its authorized agent. (k)  A nonprofit organization that is chartered to build houses and that has tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including a religious corporation, and such organization’s volunteers, performing plumbing installations for a single-family dwelling unit. An organization described in this paragraph shall designate a primary contact person with whom inspectors may communicate. (2)  To the extent that an electrical or HVAC installation permit issued by the Idaho division of occupational and professional licenses includes any part of a plumbing installation, the permit issued and inspection performed shall be sufficient to satisfy the permitting and inspecting requirements of this chapter if all required permit fees have been paid. (3)  Apprentice registration requirements shall not apply to high school students enrolled in an educational program recognized by the board in which the performance of plumbing installation is a formal component of the program. The exemption is limited to students performing residential installations as part of such program under the constant on-the-job supervision of a licensed journeyman plumber and a permit for the work is obtained from the authority having jurisdiction. Work hours performed by such students shall not apply toward apprentice work requirements. (4)  Any person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation making water treatment installations and/or repairs in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall maintain a surety bond in the amount of two thousand dollars ($2,000).

Idaho Code 54-5003

As used in this chapter: (1)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)" means and includes the business, trade, practice or work, materials and fixtures used in the design, construction, installation, improvement, extension and alteration of all piping, venting, ductwork, appliances and appurtenances in connection with any heating, ventilation or air conditioning system or subsystems of such. (2)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning apprentice" means any person who, as his principal occupation, is engaged in learning and assisting in installation, improvement, extension, alteration or repair of HVAC systems. An apprentice shall perform HVAC work under the supervision of an HVAC journeyman or HVAC contractor. (3)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor" means any person who fabricates, installs, maintains, services and repairs warm air heating and water heating systems, heat pumps, complete with warm air appliances including, but not limited to, boilers, pool heaters, space heaters, decorative gas and solid fuel-burning appliances, and gas, propane, electric or oil-fired water heaters; ventilating systems complete with blowers and plenum chambers; air conditioning systems complete with air conditioning unit and the ducts, registers, flues, humidity and thermostatic controls of air, liquid or gas temperatures below fifty (50) degrees fahrenheit or ten (10) degrees celsius, and air filters in connection with any of these systems. (4)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning journeyman" means any person who, as his principal occupation, is engaged in the installation, improvement, extension, alteration or repair of HVAC systems and who is familiar with the provisions of this chapter and who works in the employ and under direction of an HVAC contractor. (5)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty apprentice including specialty limited heating apprentice" means any person who, as his principal occupation, is engaged in learning and assisting in a specific aspect of installation, improvement, extension, alteration or repair of HVAC systems that includes, but is not limited to, such aspects as gas piping, gas appliances and installation, or decorative gas-fired appliances. A specialty apprentice shall perform HVAC work under the supervision of an HVAC journeyman, HVAC specialty journeyman, HVAC contractor or an HVAC specialty contractor. (6)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty contractor including specialty limited heating contractor" means any person who, as his principal occupation, is engaged in a specific aspect of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning trade that includes, but is not limited to, such aspects as gas piping, gas appliances and installation, or decorative gas-fired appliances. (7)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty journeyman including specialty limited heating journeyman" means any person who, as his principal occupation, is engaged in a specific aspect of installation, improvement, extension, alteration or repairing of HVAC systems that includes, but is not limited to, such aspects as gas piping, gas appliances and installation, or decorative gas-fired appliances. A specialty journeyman is familiar with the provisions of this chapter and works in the employ and under direction of an HVAC contractor or an HVAC specialty contractor. (8)  "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system" means any heating, ventilation or air conditioning system in a residential, private, public or semipublic building or structure including, but not limited to, any mechanical means of heating or air conditioning and to gas piping, venting, ductwork and controls. (9)  "Local government" means any incorporated city or any county in the state. (10) "Specialty limited heating" as it applies to the definitions of "heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty apprentice," "heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty contractor" and "heating, ventilation and air conditioning specialty journeyman" means any person who installs, maintains, services and repairs LP gas-fired appliances, LP fuel gas piping and related exhaust venting. This definition of specialty limited heating shall exclude boilers, hydronic systems, ducted forced air systems, ventilating and air conditioning systems, systems with a BTU input rating over three hundred thousand (300,000), solid fuel and electric fueled systems. A "specialty limited heating journeyman" is required to meet the experience requirement and either the education or examination requirement set forth in this section to receive a certificate of competency. The education of a "specialty limited heating journeyman" shall include one hundred twenty (120) hours of instruction approved by the board for career technical education in LP gas specialty education. The experience requirement of a "specialty limited heating journeyman" shall be two (2) years’ experience working in the trade, in compliance with the requirements of the state in which the applicant received his supervision or as a registered HVAC apprentice or registered HVAC specialty apprentice making HVAC installation on the job under the supervision of a qualified HVAC journeyman or qualified HVAC specialty journeyman. The examination required in this section shall be developed by the board for career technical education and approved by the Idaho heating, ventilation and air conditioning board.

Idaho Code 54-5015

(1) Only the administrator of the division of occupational and professional licenses of the state of Idaho is authorized and empowered to conduct examinations and to pass upon the qualifications of applicants, and to grant and issue certificates of competency and registration of apprentices to such applicants as are found to be qualified to engage in the trade, business, work or practice of heating, ventilation and air conditioning. (2)  No local jurisdiction shall have the authority to require additional certification or registration or to require payment of any fees in order for any HVAC contractor, specialty contractor, journeyman, specialty journeyman, apprentice, or specialty apprentice to engage in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning trade within the local jurisdiction or to issue certificates to persons certified or registered under the provisions of this chapter. (3)  Nothing in this chapter shall restrict a city or county from imposing stricter public safety rules, notwithstanding any provision of Idaho Code. (4)  A certificate issued pursuant tochapter 26, title 54, Idaho Code, or a license issued pursuant tochapter 10, title 54, Idaho Code, shall be acceptable for all HVAC installation work that falls within the scope of the certificate or license that has been issued. This will allow: (a)  Individuals holding a current HVAC or electrical license or a current plumbing certification to install electrical circuitry from the disconnecting means to a water heater and electrical connections to the water heater as long as the disconnect is in sight from the unit and the circuit from the disconnecting means to the water heater is no more than fifty (50) feet long; (b)  Individuals holding a current HVAC or electrical license to install: (i)   Electrical space heaters with no attached ductwork; (ii)  Electrical connections to HVAC equipment from the disconnecting means to the unit as long as the disconnect is in sight from the unit and the circuit from the disconnecting means to the HVAC equipment is no more than fifty (50) feet long; and (iii) Ventilating fans, except ducted range hoods in residences; (c)  Individuals holding either an HVAC certification or plumbing certification to install: (i)   Boilers that are not otherwise subject to inspection by the industrial commission or its authorized agent; (ii)   Fuel piping; (iii) Piping for hydronic systems; and (iv)  Piping for steam and hot water boiler systems; (d)  HVAC licensees to install control wiring of twenty-four (24) volts or less for HVAC equipment of five (5) tons or less in capacity. (5)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, plumbing certificate holders are not authorized to install control wiring in HVAC equipment, regardless of voltage.

Idaho Code 54-5017

(1) On and after January 1, 2005, any person, firm, partnership, company, association or corporation entitled to receive a permit, shall make application to the board on a form provided by the board. The application shall require a description of the work proposed to be done, the location, ownership and use of the premises. (2)  Until fees are established by rule of the board, the following fees shall be paid: (a)  Residential single and duplex family dwelling, a fifty dollar ($50.00) base permit fee plus an inspection fee of: (i)   Thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for the first furnace, furnace-air conditioner combination, heat pump, air conditioner, evaporative cooler, unit heater, space heater, decorative gas-fired appliance, incinerator, boiler, pool heater, and similar fixtures or appliances, plus (ii)  Fifteen dollars ($15.00) for any additional furnace, furnace-air conditioner combination, heat pump, air conditioner, evaporative cooler, unit heater, space heater, decorative gas-fired appliance, incinerator, boiler, pool heater, and similar fixtures or appliances. Fee includes ducts, vents and flues attached thereto. (iii) Fifteen dollars ($15.00) for the first exhaust or ventilation duct such as dryer vents, range hood vents, cook stove vents, bath fan vents, and similar exhaust and ventilation ducts, plus (iv)  Five dollars ($5.00) for any additional exhaust and ventilation ducts. (v)   Fifteen dollars ($15.00) for the first fixture or appliance outlet of the fuel gas piping system, plus (vi)  Five dollars ($5.00) for any additional outlets of the fuel gas piping system. (b)  Multifamily, commercial, institutional, industrial and all other installations, a fifty dollar ($50.00) base permit fee for each building, plus an inspection fee based on the selling price of the completed installation including equipment, appliances, piping systems, materials, and labor of: (i)   Three percent (3%) of the value of the installation through twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), plus (ii)  Two percent (2%) of the value of installation in excess of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) through one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), plus (iii) One percent (1%) of the value of the installation in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) through two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), plus (iv)  One-half percent (1/2%) of the value of the installation in excess of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000). (c)  Plan check and technical service, a fifty dollar ($50.00) minimum fee plus fifty dollars ($50.00) per hour. (d)  Additional and reinspections, a fifty dollar ($50.00) minimum fee plus an additional fifty dollars ($50.00) per hour before approval of the installation if the following services are necessary: (i)   Trips to inspect when the permittee had given notice to the inspector that the work was ready for inspection when it was not, or if the permittee has not clearly given the location of the installation either by directions or maps, or if the inspector cannot gain access to make the inspection; (ii)  Trips to inspect corrections required by the inspector as a result of the permittee improperly responding to a corrective notice; (iii) Each trip necessary to remove a red tag from the job site; (iv)  When corrections have not been made in the prescribed time, unless an extension has been requested and granted. (3)  Expiration of permits. Every permit issued by the division of occupational and professional licenses or authority having jurisdiction shall expire by limitation and become null and void if the work authorized by such permit is not commenced within ninety (90) days from the date of issuance of such permit or if the work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after work is commenced for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days. A permit may be renewed for an additional year upon receiving approval from the division of occupational and professional licenses or authority having jurisdiction and a fifty-dollar ($50.00) renewal fee. (4)  No permit. Failure to acquire, post and send permit and to pay required fees in the prescribed time may result in the assessment of a double fee. Any additional offenses within a twelve (12) month period for failure to acquire, post and send permit and to pay required fees in the prescribed time shall result in the assessment of a triple fee.

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