N.Y. General City Law § 44: Powers and duties

§ 44. Powers and duties. The several examining boards of plumbers

shall have power and it shall be their duty:

1. To meet at stated intervals in their respective cities; they shall

also meet whenever the board of health of such city or the mayor thereof

shall in writing request them so to do.

2. To have jurisdiction over and to examine all persons desiring or

intending to engage in the trade, business or calling of plumbing as

employing plumbers in the city in which such board shall be appointed

with the power of examining persons applying for certificates of

competency as such employing or master plumbers or as inspectors of

plumbing, to determine their fitness and qualifications for conducting

the business of master plumbers or to act as inspector of plumbing, and

to issue certificates of competency to all such persons who shall have

passed a satisfactory examination before such board and shall be by it

determined to be qualified for conducting the business as employing or

master plumbers or competent to act as inspectors of plumbing.

3. To formulate in conjunction with the local board of health of the

city or an officer, board or body performing the duties of a board of

health a code of rules regulating the work of plumbing and drainage in

such city, including the materials, workmanship and manner of executing

such work and from time to time to add to, amend or alter the same, or

in their discretion to adopt the standard plumbing code recommended by

the state department of health.

4. To charge and collect from each person applying for examination the

sum of ten dollars for each examination made by such board, and all

moneys so collected shall be paid over by the board monthly to the

chamberlain or treasurer of such city in which such board shall be

appointed.