§ 22-337. Same—Revocation of licenses.

(a)

The plumbing board may, pursuant to the procedures provided in the Administrative Procedure Act (R.S. 49:950 et seq.), revoke, suspend or refuse to renew a journeyman plumber's or master plumber's license of any person. Grounds for revocation include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1)

Conviction of a felony.

(2)

Falsification of any material portion of a licensee's application to the plumbing board.

(3)

The habitual performance of the work of either a journeyman plumber or a master plumber which is substantially below the standards established by the state department of health and hospitals, or any of its agencies or offices.

(4)

The refusal of a master plumber, after notice from the board, to accurately designate an employment entity in his application, his renewal thereof, or upon any change in employment status with an employing entity.

(5)

The habitual practice of a master plumber to knowingly allow any employing entity to hold itself out as engaging in the business of plumbing at a time when the employing entity does not employ the master plumber as designated to the plumbing board.

(6)

The habitual practice of a journeyman plumber or master plumber to knowingly allow any person not licensed by the plumbing board to perform plumbing work, except as otherwise authorized by law.

(7)

The violation of municipal or other local plumbing codes not otherwise preempted by law or related regulations as evidenced by adjudication before local governing authorities.

(8)

The habitual violation by a master plumber, journeyman plumber, apprentice, medical gas piping installer, or holder of a water supply protection specialist endorsement of the rules and regulations adopted by the plumbing board.

(b)

Any licensee whose license is revoked as provided in this section, may within 15 days of written notice by the secretary of the plumbing board of such revocation, appeal suspensively to the district court in the parish of his residence. The district court shall conduct a trial de novo, but shall not reverse or modify the decision of the plumbing board unless it determines that it is arbitrary and capricious. If a licensee presents new evidence to the district court, the court shall remand the matter to the board for additional fact finding and, if appropriate, administrative orders.

(Code 1958, § 14-47)

State law reference

Similar provisions, R.S. 37:1378.