Until June 30, 2004, no license shall be issued for longer than one (1) year and all licenses shall expire on June 30th of each year and such licenses may be renewed upon application and payment of fees within thirty (30) days preceding or following June 30th of each year, or the date the license renewal is due. Beginning July 1, 2004, all licenses shall expire on the birth date of the licensee. The Construction Industries Board shall establish by rule a method for prorating license fees to coincide with the birth date of the licensee. No journeyman or contractor license shall be renewed unless the licensee has completed the required hours of continuing education as determined and approved by the Committee. Such requirement may be satisfied by completing a course on the current edition of the International Fuel Gas Code or the International Plumbing Code revision of not less than six (6) hours of instruction within one (1) year of adoption of the current International Plumbing Code revision. The Committee may renew licenses upon application made more than thirty (30) days following the date of expiration upon payment of the renewal and additional fee prescribed and upon compliance with any applicable continuing education requirements as established by the Board and this act. Provided that no penalty for renewal shall be charged to any holder of a license which expires while such holder is in military service if application is made within one (1) year following his service discharge.

Apprentice registration certificates expire one (1) year after date of registration, at which time the apprentice may reregister.

Added by Laws 1955, SB 168, c. 18, § 9; Amended by Laws 1980, HB 1314, c. 1, § 3, emerg. eff. July 1, 1980; Amended by Laws 2003, SB 545, c. 318, § 8, eff. November 1, 2003 (superseded document available).