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FIRST REGULAR SESSION
                        HOUSE BILL NO. 1247
                               103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


                              INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SIMMONS.

     2609H.01I                                                                    JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk


                                                AN ACT
     To amend chapter 324, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to a prohibition on
           licensing requirements for certain industrial mechanical maintenance work.


     Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

             Section A. Chapter 324, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
 2   known as section 324.890, to read as follows:
             324.890. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
 2           (1) "Contractor", a person who is employed by a corporation, firm, institution,
 3   organization, or company to perform mechanical work or industrial mechanical
 4   maintenance work;
 5           (2) "Establishment", any legally recognized business entity engaged in
 6   manufacturing;
 7           (3) "Industrial facility", any real property or personal property or fixtures
 8   attached to real property at which an establishment engages in a manufacturing activity
 9   within an area that, if subject to a zoning ordinance or regulation, is zoned for industrial
10   or similar uses;
11           (4) "Industrial mechanical maintenance work", maintenance of mechanical
12   systems or equipment within an industrial facility;
13           (5) "Local license", a license issued by a political subdivision and valid only in
14   that political subdivision that is required to bid, accept, or perform mechanical work in
15   a political subdivision of this state;
16           (6) "Manufacturing", any activity described in division D of the most recent
17   version of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

     EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
     intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
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18           (7) "State license", a license issued by the state of Missouri that is required to
19   bid, accept, or perform mechanical work in this state.
20           2. Any contractor performing industrial mechanical maintenance work
21   employed at an industrial facility shall not be required to obtain a local license or
22   state license to perform industrial mechanical maintenance work for the industrial
23   facility.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced (2609H.01): 324.890