WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 436

CHAPTER 436
(House Bill 1428)

AN ACT concerning

Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - Licenses

FOR the purpose of allowing the Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-conditioning, and
Refrigeration Contractors to issue without examination a journeyman's license,
under certain circumstances; establishing procedures for obtaining a master, master
restricted, or limited license under certain circumstances; altering procedures for
renewing and reactivating a license on inactive status; making a technical change;
and generally relating to licenses for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and
refrigeration contractors.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation

Section 9A-101(a) and (m), 9A-302, 9A-306, and 9A-309
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Business Regulation

9A-101.

(a) In this [subtitle] TITLE the following words have the meanings indicated.

(m) "Limited license" means a license issued by the Board exclusively to maintain
or repair ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: heating systems, cooling systems,
refrigeration systems, ventilation systems, or hydronic systems.

9A-302.

(a)     To qualify for an apprentice, journeyman, master, master restricted, or limited
license, an applicant shall meet the requirements of this section.

(b)     An applicant for a master heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and
refrigeration contractor license shall:

(1)     have been regularly and principally employed in providing heating,
ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration services under a journeyman license for not
less than 3 years of active experience under the direction and control of a master heating,
ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration contractor and have been so employed for
not less than 1,875 hours in the year prior to application; and

(2)     pass an examination administered by the Board.

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