inspector training program

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Residential Plumbing Inspector (CAP)

Lesson 1

Administration and General Requirements

(Based on the 2021 OPSC)

INSPECTOR TRAINING PROGRAM

Updated: August 2021

ORS AND OAR

• Oregon Revised Statutes ORS

• 447, Business Licensing

• 693, Installer Licensing

• 701, This is CCB Statute

• Oregon Administrative Rules OAR

• 918-690, Plumbing Administration

• 918-695, Plumbing Licensing and Certification

• 918-770, Plumbing Standards Approval

• 918-780, Plumbing fee’s, permits and Inspections

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SCOPE

• 101.2 Scope The provisions of this code shall apply to the

erection, installation, alteration, repair, relocation, replacement,

addition to, use, of plumbing systems as provided in ORS

447.020 and OAR 918-008-0000. Division 008 is the

developmental rules for code adoption, interpretations and

appeals. These are all under the scope of the code.

• 447.020 Plumbing to conform to state building code; rules;

enforcement.

1) All installations of plumbing and drainage in buildings and structures in

this state and all potable water supply, drainage, and waste

installations, within or serving buildings or structures, except in

temporary construction camps.

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918-098-1210

• Residential Plumbing Inspectors

2) A person issued a residential plumbing inspector certification must also possess a valid Oregon Inspector Certification issued under OAR 918-098-1025 prior to performing residential plumbing inspections.

3) A residential plumbing inspector may conduct inspections for plumbing work regulated by the Oregon Residential Specialty Code, and where connection to the building is not a separate plumbing system; and

a) Plumbing work on manufactured dwellings, manufactured structure accessory buildings and structures under the Oregon Manufactured Dwelling Installation Specialty Code;

b) The Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards located in 24 CFR 3280 and 3282;

c) Plan review and inspection of manufactured dwelling parks, recreational parks, organizational camps, and picnic parks; and

d) Any portion of a solar water heating system installation up to 180 gallons of storage tank capacity.

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DEFINITION OF PLUMBING 447.010

(6) “Plumbing” is the art of installing, altering

or repairing in or adjacent to or serving

buildings:

(a) Pipes, fixtures and other apparatus for

bringing in the water supply and removing

liquid and water-carried waste, including the

water supply distributing pipes.

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447.010 DEFINITION

(b) Fixtures and fixture traps.

(c) Soil, waste and vent pipes.

(d) House drain and house sewer to the sewer service

lateral at the curb, or in the street, or alley, or other

disposal terminal holding human or domestic sewage.

(e) Storm water drainage, with their devices,

appurtenances and connections.

(f) Pipes, fixtures and other apparatus for medical gas,

anesthetic waste gas and vacuum systems.

(g) Solar heating and cooling systems.

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CERTIFICATION SCOPE

• What scope of work will our residential certification allow us to inspect?

• One and two family dwellings

• Townhouses

• Neither can exceed three story's

• Apartments up to 3 story’s (low rise, all exits need to be to the exterior. Definition in 455.010 (4) and Chapter 43 ORSC)

• Manufactured home setups 918-098-1210

• Any portion of a solar water heating system up to 180 gallons of storage. 918-098-1210

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LICENSE EXEMPTIONS?

• Who needs a license?

• Who’s exempt from licensing?

• 918-695-0020 693.020

• What work can be done without a license

Homeowner Plumber Handyman General Contractor

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LICENSED INSTALLERS

• Plumbers meeting: 918-695-0030

• Water heater installers meeting: 918-695-0120

• Water treatment installers meeting: 918-695-0130

• Solar thermal system installer meeting: 918-695-

0125

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EXEMPTIONS FROM

INSTALLER LICENSE

• 918-695-0020, A person to do the person’s own

work on the person’s own residential building on

the person’s own premises.

• The homeowner is exempt from licensing but not

from permits and inspections if required. 693.020

(4).

• No language in statute prohibits this exemption

even if the property is for rent lease or sale.

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• 918.695.0020(b) A person testing, repairing, servicing,

maintaining, installing or replacing new or existing potable

water pump equipment not exceeding seven and one-half

horsepower on residential property and piping between

the pumps and storage tanks for the pumps, regardless of

whether the person holds any license under this chapter.

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EXEMPTIONS FROM INSTALLER LICENSE FOR

BUISNESSES WITH CCB/PB

(c) A person installing exterior storm drains that

are not connected to a sanitary sewer or

combination sanitary storm sewer.

CCB ORS 701.348

Any person licensed under ORS 701.026 may

install a building sewer after obtaining a permit.

PB ORS 693.020

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• PB: 693.020(c) A person installing exterior storm drains

that are not connected to a sanitary sewer or combination

sanitary storm sewer. This installer license exemption

does not exempt them from a plumbing business license

for the company.

• CCB: ORS 701.348 Any person licensed under ORS

701.026 may install a building sewer after obtaining a

permit.

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Sewer (sanitary) is

defined in 701.348 as

starting 5 feet outside

the structure, sewer is

also defined in 918-

690-0410 which points

you back to 701.348.

EXEMPTION FOR PROPERTY MANAGER

or FULL TIME EMPLYOEE

(e) A person who owns, leases or operates

residential property and who repairs, or uses

regular employees to repair, existing plumbing

on property owned, leased or operated by the

person, regardless of whether the person or

employee holds a license under this chapter.

So who is exempt from what?

ORS 693.020

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• ORS 693.020

e) A person who owns, leases or operates

residential property and who repairs, or uses

regular employees to repair, existing

plumbing on property owned, leased or

operated by the person, regardless of

whether the person or employee holds a

license under this chapter.

• Repair and regular employee is defined in

statute.

• Residential, is structures covered under the

scope of the ORSC

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PROPERTY MANAGERS

WHAT CAN THEY DO?

HandymanRepairs or

replacements as

employee of a

residential property

management co.

HomeownerCan do all

Plumbing

Installation

On their own

Property.

PlumberA license

Holder can do

All plumbing

Installations.

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General

Contractor▪ Sanitary sewers

with a CCB.

▪ Exterior storm

drains/sewer with

a CCB and PB

PLUMBING BUSINESS LICENSE

• 447.040 Plumbing contractor license. (1) A person may not work as a plumbing contractor, or advertise or purport to be a plumbing contractor, and a member or employee of a firm, partnership or corporation may not engage in the layout or superintending of plumbing installations, without having obtained the plumbing contractor license required under ORS 447.010 to 447.156 as provided by State Plumbing Board rules adopted under ORS 455.117.

*A plumbing contractor license does not authorize the contractor to work as a journeyman plumber.

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WHAT ARE MINOR REPAIRS?

EXEMPT ORDINARY MINOR REPAIRS FROM

LICENSING AND PERMITS.

(1) Effective April 1, 2006, state building code

provisions for permit or inspection of ordinary minor

plumbing repairs follow:

(a) A registered plumbing contractor and any person

exempt from licensing under ORS 693.020 are

exempted from permit or inspection for ordinary minor

plumbing repairs as defined in section (2) for residential

and commercial structures;

918-780-0035

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(2) The term "ordinary minor plumbing repairs" is defined as follows:

(a) Includes repair, replacement or maintenance of existing plumbing fixtures, appliances, appurtenances and related water supply and drain attachments for the purpose of restoring a plumbing installation to a safe and sanitary operating condition.

(b) Does not include new construction, replacement of water heaters, or underground plumbing.

918-780-0035

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• Licenses (JP) (PB) do not need a permit to do

emergency leak repair in drains, soil, waste, or

vent piping and water freeze damage, that does

not exceed 5 feet.

• Leaking-exposed or concealed.

• This exemption is only for licensed plumbers and

is not covered under scope of definition for repair,

see also section 104.2.

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PERMIT REQUIRED

• 104.1 Permits Required. It shall be unlawful for

a person, firm, or corporation to make an

installation, alteration, repair, replacement, or

remodel any plumbing system regulated by this

code except as permitted in Section 104.2 (

exempt work ), OAR chapter 918, division 100 (

special alternate inspection ), and OAR 918-780-

0035, or to cause the same to be done without

first obtaining a separate plumbing permit for

each separate building or structure.

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SPECIAL ALTERNATE INSPECTION

OAR 918-100

MINOR LABEL PERMITS

• 918-780-0130

• Use of Minor Installation Labels

1) Plumbing contractors having a valid certificate

of registration under ORS 447.030 and a

verified Construction Contractors Board

license, when using plumbers having a

certificate of competency under ORS

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SCOPE FOR MINOR LABEL PERMITS

2) One- and two-family dwelling minor installation label programs include:

(a) Repair, replacement, or maintenance of water heaters, including water heater conversions; This is changing from electric to gas or gas to electric.

(b) Alteration of parts of an existing plumbing system not exceeding three fixtures, or 20 feet of new piping or both provided the work is “accessible” to an inspector.

(c) Repair or replacement of concealed freeze-damaged or leaking parts of an existing plumbing system not exceeding three fixtures, or 20 feet of new piping or both.

3) Cross-connection control devices are not considered minor plumbing installations and are excluded under these rules. Backflows would require a standard permit.

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INSPECTIONS

• INSPECTION REQUIRED:

• 105.2 Plumbing systems for which a permit is

required by this code shall be inspected.

• Standard permit,

a) Utilities, water, sewer, storm

b) Underfloor, under slab

c) Rough-in, top-out

d) Final

e) Plumbing fixture installations

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• Exception: Rough-in inspections prior to

placement of sub-flooring for frame construction

may be waived by the inspecting jurisdiction, if

adequate accessibility is available and prior

approval is granted. Section 105.2

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UTILITIES, WATER, SEWER, STORM SEWER

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UNDER FLOOR

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TOP OUT/ ROUGH-IN

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FINAL

CITE AND WRITE

918-098-1900

Citation Requirement Effective January 1, 2006

In addition to any other requirements set forth in statute

and rule, beginning January 1, 2006, all inspectors and

plans examiners certified under Division 098, OAR 918-

225-0540, 918-281-0020 918-695-0400, and ORS

460.055 issuing corrective notices at construction sites

or to buildings or related appurtenances during a plan

review must adequately cite the applicable specialty

code sections, Oregon administrative rules, or statutes

whenever a re-inspection is required as a result of the

inspection or plan review.

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APPLICATION TO EXISTING SYSTEMS

301.2.5 Repairs and Alterations.

In existing buildings or premises in which plumbing installations are to be altered, repaired, or renovated, deviations from the provisions of this code are permitted, provided such deviations are found to be necessary and are first approved by the Building Official.

102.3.1 Existing building sewers and building drains shall be permitted to be used in connection with new buildings or new plumbing and drainage work only when they are found on examination and test to conform in all respects to the requirements governing new work, and the proper Authority Having jurisdiction shall notify the owner to make any changes necessary to conform to this code. No building, or part thereof, shall be erected or placed over any part of a drainage system that is constructed of materials other than those approved elsewhere in this code for use under or within a building.

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EXISTING SYSTEMS

102.2 Existing Installation. Plumbing

systems lawfully in existence at the time of the

adoption of this code may have their use,

maintenance, or repair continued if the use,

maintenance, or repair is in accordance with

the original design and location and no hazard

to life, health, or property has been created by

such plumbing system.

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102.3 Additions, Alterations, or Repairs.

Additions, alterations, or repairs shall be

permitted to be made to any plumbing system

without requiring the existing plumbing system

to comply with all the requirements of this

code, provided the addition, alteration, or

repair conforms to that required for a new

plumbing system.

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• 102.3.2 Openings.

Openings into a drainage

or vent system, excepting

those openings to which

plumbing fixtures are

properly connected or

which constitute vent

terminals, shall be

permanently plugged or

capped in an approved

manner, using the

appropriate materials in

accordance with this

code.

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These caps are not approved for

permanent capping of plumbing system

per this section, they do not meet an

approved standard in chapter 17.

ALTERNATE METHODS

301.3 Alternate Materials and Methods of

Construction Equivalency. Nothing in this code is

intended to prevent the use of systems, methods, or

devices of equivalent or superior quality, strength, fire

resistance, effectiveness, durability, and safety over

those prescribed by this code.

However, the exercise of this discretionary approval by

the Building Official shall have no effect beyond the

jurisdictional boundaries of said Building Official. Any

alternate material or method of construction so

approved shall not be considered as conforming to the

requirements and/or intent of this code.

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FLOOD HAZARD

301.4 Flood Hazard Areas.

301.4 General. Plumbing systems shall be

located above the design flood elevation. as

determined by the Flood Plain Administrator.

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Exception: Plumbing systems are permitted to

be located below the design flood elevation

provided that the systems are designed and

installed to prevent water from entering or

accumulating within their components and the

systems are constructed to resist hydrostatic

and hydrodynamic loads and stresses,

including the effects of buoyancy, during the

occurrence of flooding to the design flood

elevation.

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301.4.1 Coastal High Hazard Areas Subject

to High- Velocity Wave Action. Plumbing

systems in buildings located in coastal high

hazard areas as determined by the Flood Plain

Administrator, shall not have plumbing

systems, pipes, and fixtures mounted on or

penetrate through walls that are intended to

breakaway under flood loads in accordance

with the building code.

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310.2 Drainage and Vent Piping. No drainage or vent

piping shall be drilled and tapped for the purpose of

making connections.

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OBSTRUCTION OF FLOW

310.5 No fitting, fixture and piping

connection, appliance, device, or method

of installation that obstructs or retards the

flow of water, wastes, sewage, or air in

the drainage or venting systems, in an

amount exceeding the normal frictional

resistance to flow, shall be used unless it

is indicated as acceptable in this code or

is approved per Section 301.2 of this

code.

The enlargement of a three (3) inch

closet bend or stub to four (4) inches

shall not be considered an obstruction.

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PROTECTION OF PIPING

312.1 Piping passing under or through walls

shall be protected from breakage. Piping

passing through or under cinders or other

corrosive materials shall be protected from

external corrosion in an approved manner.

Approved provisions shall be made for

expansion of hot water piping. Voids around

piping passing through concrete floors on the

ground shall be appropriately sealed.

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INSTALLATION

312.2 Piping in connection with a plumbing

system shall be so installed that piping or

connections will not be subject to undue

strains or stresses, and provisions shall be

made for expansion, contraction, and structural

settlement.

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312.10 Sleeves shall be provided to protect

piping through concrete and masonry walls

and concrete floors.

Exception: Sleeves shall not be required

where openings are drilled or bored.

312.10.1 Piping through concrete or masonry

walls shall not be subject to any load from

building construction.

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SLEEVES

312.10.2 In exterior walls,

annular space between

sleeves and pipes shall be

sealed and made water-

tight, as approved by the

Building Official.

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ENFORCEMENT

All jurisdictions administering and enforcing the

state building code must enforce statewide code

interpretations and allow the use of alternate

method rulings consistent with the original scope

of the ruling. Failure to enforce statewide code

interpretations or allow statewide alternate method

rulings may subject building officials, plans

examiners, and inspectors to revocation or

suspension of certifications.

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