                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GROUNDS FOR DENIAL OR REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATION OR LICENSE; REPORTS OF
BUILDING OFFICIALS AND OTHERS (§ 54.1-1134)

The Board shall have the power to require remedial education and to suspend,
revoke or deny renewal of the certification or license of any individual who is
found to be in violation of the statutes or regulations governing the practice
of licensed tradesmen, liquefied petroleum gas fitters or natural gas fitter
providers or certified backflow prevention device workers in the Commonwealth.
		Any building official who finds that an individual is practicing as a
tradesman, elevator mechanic, liquefied petroleum gas fitter or natural gas
fitter provider without a license as required by this article shall file a
report to such effect with the Board. Any water purveyor or building official
who finds that an individual is practicing as a backflow prevention device
worker without a certificate, if a certificate is required by the locality in
which an individual is engaging in backflow prevention device worker activities,
shall file a report to such effect with the Board.
		Any building official who has reason to believe that (i) a tradesman,
liquefied petroleum gas fitter or natural gas fitter provider is performing
incompetently as demonstrated by an egregious or repeated violation of the
Uniform Statewide Building Code (§ 36-97 et seq.) or (ii) a certified backflow
prevention device worker is performing incompetently as demonstrated by an
egregious or repeated violation of the standards adopted by the American Society
of Sanitary Engineering referenced in the plumbing code adopted by the Virginia
Uniform Statewide Building Code shall file a report to such effect with the
Board. Any water purveyor who has reason to believe that a certified backflow
prevention device worker is performing incompetently as demonstrated by an
egregious or repeated violation of the standards adopted by the American Society
of Sanitary Engineering referenced in the plumbing code adopted by the Virginia
Uniform Statewide Building Code shall file a report to such effect with the
Board and local building official.

HISTORY: 1994, c. 895; 1996, cc. 934, 1006; 1997, cc. 403, 885; 1999, c. 343;
2009, cc. 184, 586.