KRS 198B.6673: Administrative regulations -- Fees -- Qualifications for and

compensation of local government's inspectors -- Local governments

prohibited from establishing additional permitting or inspection programs.

(1) The department shall promulgate adm inistrative regulations to establish a

reasonable schedule of fees to implement the program. The fees shall not exceed the

actual costs for the administration of the program. The department shall also

establish heating, ventilation, and air conditioning in spection protocols that ensure

timely inspections and minimal interruption to the construction process.

(2) The department, upon the request of any individual local governing entity or

combination of entities with existing heating, ventilation, and air con ditioning

permitting and inspection programs as of January 1, 2007, shall authorize them to

administer, carry out, and enforce the administrative regulations of the department

relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installations, issue perm its, and

make inspections within their respective boundaries, or perform any portion of these

functions. Nothing in KRS 198B.6671 to 198B.6678 shall prohibit these entities

from continuing to include major repairs or substantial alterations to a heating,

ventilation, or air conditioning system within their permitting and inspection

program in the absence of a state requirement, if major repairs or substantial

alterations were included in the entities' inspection program prior to January 1,

2007. The department may authorize any other individual local government entities

or combination of entities to administer, carry out, and enforce the administrative

regulations of the department relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

installations, issue p ermits, and make inspections within their respective

boundaries, or perform any portion of those functions. When authorization is

granted, the department shall enter into contractual arrangements with the local

governing entities, which shall remain in eff ect as long as the local entity continues

to operate its program pursuant to guidelines adopted by the department. A heating,

ventilation, and air conditioning permit issued by an authorized local governing

entity shall be considered a permit issued by the department, and all fees collected

by the authorized local government related to the same shall be retained by that

local government.

(3) Any local governing entity enforcing the permitting and inspection requirements of

KRS 198B.650 to 198B.689 pursuant to subsection (2) of this section may appoint

and fix the compensation of the local governing entity's heating, ventilation, and air

conditioning inspectors. No person shall perform the duties of a heating, ventilation,

and air conditioning inspector unles s he or she has at least six (6) years' experience

as a licensed heating, ventilation, and air conditioning journeyman mechanic or a

licensed master heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor, unless he or

she is a certified building inspector w ho has successfully passed the examinations

relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. At the time of

employment, the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning inspector shall be

licensed or certified in accordance with KRS 198B.650 t o 198B.689, or become

certified within twelve (12) months of employment.

(4) No local governing entity shall impose any other additional heating, ventilation, and

air conditioning inspection or permit requirements, or establish any local inspection

or perm itting program, unless those provisions were in place before January 1,

2007.