Bill Text: AZ HB2333 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Board of technical registration; exemptions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-24 - Referred to Senate CWD Committee [HB2333 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2016-HB2333-Engrossed.html
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature Second Regular Session 2016
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HOUSE BILL 2333 |
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AN ACT
amending section 32-144, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the state board of technical registration.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 32-144, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
32-144. Exemptions and limitations
A. Professions and occupations regulated by the board may be practiced without compliance with the requirements of this chapter by:
1. An officer or employee of the United States, practicing as such.
2. An employee of a registrant or of a person exempt from registration, if such employment does not involve direct responsibility for design, inspection or supervision.
3. A nonregistrant who designs, alters or adds to either of the following:
(a) A detached single family dwelling.
(b) An individual unit in a multifamily dwelling if the walls that are designed, altered or added in the unit are not bearing walls, shear walls or firewalls, which shall be determined by a registrant following an evaluation of the walls to be designed, altered or added.
4. A nonregistrant who designs a one or two story building or structure in which the square footage of the floor area measured to the outside surface of the exterior walls does not exceed three thousand square feet, that is not intended for occupancy by more than twenty persons on a continuous basis and in which the maximum span of any structural member does not exceed twenty feet unless a greater span is achieved by the use of wood or steel roof or floor trusses or lintels approved by an engineer registered by the board.
5. A nonregistrant who designs additions or alterations to a one or two story building or structure subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph 4 of this subsection. A nonregistrant may do either or both of the following:
(a) Exceed the maximum three thousand square foot limitation set forth in paragraph 4 of this subsection for a one‑time single addition not exceeding one thousand five hundred square feet as measured to the outside surface of the exterior walls and designed for the purpose of storage of chattels.
(b) design improvements within tenant spaces involving nonbearing, nonshear, nonfire-blocking walls for the purpose of creating office space or other partitioning when the new partition walls do not exceed one hundred twenty-five linear feet or the tenant space does not exceed three thousand square feet if the maximum occupancy of the tenant space does not exceed forty-nine persons and does not require any new facilities to comply with the Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (P.L. 101-336; 104 Stat. 327; 42 United States Code section 12101 through 12213 and 47 United States Code sections 225 and 611).
6. A nonregistrant who designs a water or wastewater treatment plant, or extensions, additions, modifications or revisions, or extensions to water distribution or collection systems, if the total cost of such construction does not exceed twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
7. A nonregistrant who designs buildings or structures to be erected on property owned or leased by the nonregistrant or by a person, firm or corporation, including a utility, telephone, mining or railroad company, which that employs the nonregistrant on a full‑time basis, if the buildings or structures are intended solely for the use of the owner or lessee of the property, are not ordinarily occupied by more than twenty people, are not for sale to, rental to or use by the public and conform to the building code adopted by the city, town or county in which the building is to be erected or altered.
8. A nonregistrant who provides horticultural consultations or prepares planting plans for plant installations.
B. A registrant who performs any of the activities described in subsection A, paragraphs 3 through 8 of this section is subject to the requirements of this chapter.
C. The requirements of this chapter shall not apply to work done by any communications common carrier or its affiliates or any public service corporation or manufacturing industry or by full‑time employees of any of them, provided such work is in connection with or incidental to the products, systems or nonengineering services of such communications common carrier or its affiliates or public service corporation or manufacturing industry, and provided that the engineering service is not offered directly to the public.
D. An individual shall not perform home inspections unless the individual is certified as a home inspector pursuant to this chapter, except that nothing in this chapter prevents:
1. A person who is licensed, certified or registered pursuant to this chapter or another chapter in this title from acting within the scope of the person's license, certification or registration.
2. A person who is employed by a governmental entity from inspecting residential structures if the inspection is within official duties and responsibilities.
3. A person from performing a home inspection if the inspection will be used solely by a bank, savings and loan association or credit union to monitor progress on the construction of a residential structure, unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation.
4. A person who is employed as a property manager for a residential structure and whose official duties and responsibilities include inspecting the residential structure from performing a home inspection on the structure if the person does not receive separate compensation for the inspection work.
E. No person including a person described in subsection D of this section may use any letterhead, advertisement, communication or other device to represent that the person is a home inspector unless the person is certified as a home inspector pursuant to this chapter.
