A license to practice as a contractor or as a plumbing, mechanical, HVAC-refrigeration, sheet metal, or hydronic professional may be revoked or suspended, or an application for licensure may be denied pursuant to procedures established pursuant to chapter 272C by the board, or the licensee may be otherwise disciplined in accordance with that chapter, when the licensee commits any of the following acts or offenses:
 1. Fraud in procuring a license.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 105.22

  • Board: means the plumbing and mechanical systems board as established pursuant to section 105. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • Contractor: means a person or entity that provides plumbing, mechanical, HVAC, refrigeration, sheet metal, or hydronic systems services on a contractual basis and who is paid a predetermined amount under that contract for rendering those services. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • HVAC: includes all natural, propane, liquid propane, or other gas lines associated with any component of an HVAC system. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • Hydronic: includes all low-pressure and high-pressure systems and all natural, propane, liquid propane, or other gas lines associated with any component of a hydronic system. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Plumbing: includes potable water piping, potable water treating or using equipment, medical gas piping systems, fuel gas piping, water heaters and vents, including all natural, propane, liquid propane, or other gas lines associated with any component of a plumbing system. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • Refrigeration: includes all natural, propane, liquid propane, or other gas lines associated with any component of refrigeration. See Iowa Code 105.2
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Sheet metal: means heating, ventilation, air conditioning, pollution control, fume hood systems and related ducted systems or installation of equipment associated with any component of a sheet metal system. See Iowa Code 105.2
 2. Professional incompetence.
 3. Knowingly making misleading, deceptive, untrue, or fraudulent misrepresentations in the practice of the profession or engaging in unethical conduct or practice harmful or detrimental to the public. Proof of actual injury need not be established.
 4. Fraud in representations as to skill or ability.
 5. Use of untruthful or improbable statements in advertisements.
 6. Willful or repeated violations of this chapter.
 7. Aiding and abetting a person who is not licensed pursuant to this chapter in that person’s pursuit of an unauthorized and unlicensed plumbing, mechanical, HVAC, refrigeration, sheet metal, or hydronic professional practice.
 8. Failure to meet the commonly accepted standards of professional competence.
 9. Any other such grounds as established by rule by the board.
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