(A) General. A journeyman plumber or a journeyman electrician is an individual who has demonstrated qualifications in having the skills to perform independent work in the plumbing field or electrical field and to supervise lesser qualified plumbers or electricians. The individual has taken and passed the appropriate journeyman examination accepted by the building official. Such examination shall be designed for the purpose of establishing qualifications to perform the work of a journeyman plumber or journeyman electrician.
(B) Duration. Journeyman certificates are renewable and valid only for the time period of issuance unless revoked, suspended, or otherwise restricted by the building official or the independent testing agency.
(C) Revocation and Suspension. The building official may revoke or suspend a certificate issued to an individual for the categories of master plumber, journeyman plumber, journeyman plumbing specialty, master electrician, journeyman electrician, journeyman residential electrician, journeyman sign electrician or technician for failure to comply with the conditions or requirements of the certificate category. Revocation or suspension shall be for a period to be determined by the building official. The building official may require an individual to retest at the end of a suspension or for evaluation prior to revocation or suspension. Revocations and suspensions may be appealed as prescribed in Section 22.02.560 of this chapter.
(D) Equivalency. An individual holding a valid, current certificate of journeyman qualification from an accepted independent testing agency or from a political subdivision of the state of Nevada within the geographic boundaries of Clark County may be recognized as a journeyman. The individual shall be required to present verifiable proof of a current certificate of the issuing agency to obtain a Clark County certificate with photo identification at his or her expense.
(E) Experience. Each individual submitting an application to participate in the Clark County journeyman plumbing examination shall provide verifiable proof of a minimum of three years of substantiated field experience in the trade of plumbing.
Each individual before submitting application to participate in the Clark County masters plumbing examination shall provide verifiable proof of a minimum of four years of substantiated field experience in the trade of plumbing with a minimum of one year as a plumbing field supervisor.
No person shall submit an application for the Clark County masters test without showing proof of holding a certificate as a journeyman plumber.
Related field experience can be verified by a certified letter from a plumbing contracting firm and payroll records. (Ord. 3618 § 2 (part), 2008)