Oklahoma Code § 59-1017

Title 59. Professions And Occupations: Inapplicability
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The provisions of The Plumbing License Law of 1955 shall not
apply to:
1.  Minor repairs, consisting of repairing or replacing faucets
or minor working parts of plumbing fixtures;
2.  Farm buildings located outside any city or town unless such
buildings are connected to a public water or sewer system;
3.  Maintenance work for state institutions and school
districts;
4.  The installation, maintenance, repair, renovation of
automatic sprinkler systems and related mechanical appurtenances
beginning at a point where the pipe or piping system provides water
used exclusively for these automatic sprinklers and their related
appurtenances and to standpipes connected to automatic sprinkler
systems;
5.  The construction, installation, maintenance, repair,
renovation, and/or removal of pipe or piping systems and related
mechanical appurtenances including backflow preventers, appliances
and/or equipment used in connection therewith, directly or
indirectly within or without any building or structure, from a point
or location in a source of potable water supply at which point or
location there exists any backflow preventer, provided that said
pipe and/or piping systems are for:
a. heating, except radiant-floor heating systems as
defined in subparagraph d of paragraph 9 of Section
1003 of this title,
b. cooling,
c. air conditioning,
d. refrigeration, or
e. boilers and other pressure vessels of whatsoever kind
and character.
A “backflow preventer,” as used herein, means any permanent
mechanical device, or combination of permanent mechanical devices,
of whatever material, which, after installation acts to prevent a
reversal of the normal directional flow of potable water within the

piping system in which it is installed, and shall include, but not
be limited to, metal checkvalves and airgaps, either naturally or
artificially created.  Provided, further, that the exclusionary
provisions of this paragraph shall apply only to and within
governmental agencies, counties, cities and towns which now have or
which hereafter may adopt separate laws relating to the licensing,
registration and regulating of persons engaged, for business
purposes, in any of the areas of trade hereinbefore specified in
this paragraph; the exemptions herein being provided to apply only
to these items specifically regulated by any such local laws and
ordinances; and
6.  An individual who performs plumbing work on such
individual’s property of residence.
Added by Laws 1955, p. 370, § 17.  Amended by Laws 1965, c. 147, §
1, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965; Laws 1967, c. 361, § 1, emerg. eff. May
22, 1967; Laws 1996, c. 318, § 1, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 2004, c.
163, § 3, emerg. eff. April 26, 2004.

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