HOUSE BILL 279

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

RELATING TO SOLAR COLLECTORS; PROMULGATING RULES FOR PERMITS; AMENDING A DEFINITION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Construction Industries Licensing Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] SOLAR COLLECTORS--SOLAR CONSTRUCTION PERMITS--TRADE BUREAU.--The division, the commission and the energy, minerals and natural resources department shall jointly promulgate rules to establish a uniform procedure for the issuance of permits for the construction and installation of solar collectors and to define the trade bureau having jurisdiction over the construction and installation of solar collectors."

     SECTION 2. Section 60-13-32 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 199, Section 35, as amended) is amended to read:

     "60-13-32. TRADE BUREAUS--DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Construction Industries Licensing Act:

          A. "electrical wiring" means all wiring, conductors, fixtures, devices, conduits, appliances or other equipment, including generating equipment and solar electricity generating equipment of not over ten kilowatt capacity, used in connection with the general distribution or use of electrical energy;

          B. "plumbing" means the installing, altering and repairing of all plumbing fixtures, fixture traps and soil, waste, supply and vent pipes, with their devices, appurtenances and connections, through which water, waste, sewage, oil and air are carried, when done within the property lines of the building or structure to be served by the plumbing or to the point of connection with the utility system. This subsection shall not be construed as prohibiting the installation by a "fixed works" licensee of service lines from the utility system to a point five feet outside the building or structure to be served by the plumbing;

          C. "fixtures" includes closet bowls, lavatories, bathtubs, showers, kitchen sinks, laundry trays, hot water tanks, softeners, urinals, bidets, service sinks, shower pans, drink fountains, water compressors, water coolers, septic tanks or similar systems of sewage disposal and such other similar fixtures used in plumbing as designated by the mechanical bureau;

          D. "gas fitting" means the installing, altering and repairing of consumers' gas piping and the installation of appliances utilizing natural gas as fuel and their appurtenances in or upon premises of the consumers;

          E. "softener" or "water conditioner" means any appliance, apparatus, fixture and equipment [which] that is designed to soften, filter or change the mineral content of water, whether permanent or portable; and

          F. "certificate of competence" means evidence of competence issued by the division to a journeyman electrician, journeyman plumber, journeyman gas fitter, journeyman pipe fitter or journeyman welder working on pipelines, collection lines or compressor stations."

     SECTION 3. A new section of the Solar Collector Standards Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS--PROMULGATION OF RULES.--The department, the construction industries division of the regulation and licensing department and the construction industries commission shall jointly promulgate rules to establish a uniform procedure for the issuance of permits for the construction and installation of solar collectors and to define the trade bureau having jurisdiction over the construction and installation of solar collectors."