To obtain a plumber's apprentice license, an applicant shall complete an application from the commission showing the plumbing contractor under whom the applicant will be working. An apprentice plumber who is employed by a licensed plumbing contractor, has passed an examination approved by the commission, and has completed three thousand eight hundred hours of experience learning about and assisting in the installation, alteration, and repair of plumbing under a plumbing contractor may work without immediate and personal supervision on single family dwellings.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 1 SDR 48, effective December 26, 1974; 4 SDR 10, effective August 28, 1977; 7 SDR 56, effective December 16, 1980; 8 SDR 176, effective July 4, 1982; 12 SDR 151, 12 SDR 155, effective July 1, 1986; 14 SDR 29, effective September 3, 1987; 16 SDR 88, effective November 12, 1989; 26 SDR 33, effective September 12, 1999; 29 SDR 52, effective October 20, 2002; 31 SDR 35, effective September 23, 2004; 41 SDR 34, effective September 2, 2014 ; 51 SDR 141, effective July 2, 2025 .

General Authority: SDCL 36-25-14 .

Law Implemented: SDCL 36-25- 1 (4), 36-25-1 8, 36-25-32 .

Prior versions effective: 2014-09-02, 2004-09-23.