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Kentucky HVAC & Mechanical Licensing Law

Kentucky Code · 2 sections

The following is the full text of Kentucky’s hvac & mechanical licensing law statutes as published in the Kentucky Code. For the official version, see the Kentucky Legislature.


KRS § 318.150

318.150 Materials and methods to be used. No person shall use unsafe or defective material in the work of plumbing or drainage. Only the best known methods of installing materials, fixtures, appurtenances and appliances, including water supply piping, waste, ventilating and soil piping, and sewage piping shall be employed. Effective: June 16, 1960 History: Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 222, sec. 21, effective June 16, 1960. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3909b-3.


KRS § 318.200

318.200 Water heating devices -- Serial numbers. (1) No water heating device shall be sold or offered for sale in the Commonwealth of Kentucky unless it contains a serial number on it. As used in this section, "water heating device" means any pressure vessel which heats, stores, and supplies potable water for domestic or commercial purposes other than for space heating. (2) All retailers, wholesalers, and installers selling or offering for sale a water heating device shall, within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, forward a list of names and addresses of purchasers along with the serial numbers of the devices purchased to the department or to the appropriate agency of county or city government having jurisdiction. Effective: July 15, 2010 History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1693, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 272, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984.


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