SAN ANTONIO – As the plumbing industry prepares for destiny without a national regulatory corporation, local municipalities like San Antonio are scrambling to fill the void.
The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners will be abolished on Sept. 1 after the Texas Legislature did not pass bills to increase its operation. Requirements for plumbers to be certified will cease, which many fear will create risky conditions.
“When you start speaking about salmonella, you start to speak approximately gasoline in sewer pipes, which are blowing up inside homes. There are all styles of matters which could manifest,” stated Randy Hunter, a vice chairman with R.E.C. Industries and a member of the National Association of Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Contractors.
Without the country organization to oversee the plumbing industry, the law will “in large part fall to municipalities, counties and special districts,” in line with a fact sheet from the board.
In anticipation of that, San Antonio’s Development Services Department added on Wednesday individuals of the enterprise collectively, at the side of representatives of different municipalities, consisting of Boerne, New Braunfels, and San Marcos.
“They need to have some consistency while they’re operating — whether it is in San Antonio, Alamo Heights, New Braunfels — in place of having a patchwork of systems that could make it actually inconsistent and really hard,” stated Michael Shannon, director of Development Services.
