(a) The Board means the Career Education and Workforce Development Board.

(b) The Department means the Arkansas Department of Career Education.

(c) Arkansas State Committee of Plumbing Examiners means people designated by the Board of Health to determine the eligibility of applications for various types of plumbing and gas licenses in accordance with Act 200 of 1951 as amended.

(d) Employer means any master plumber representing himself or a company that performs plumbing work in the state of Arkansas.

(e) Apprentice plumber means a person other than a master or journeyman plumber as provided in these regulations of apprenticeship at least sixteen (16) years of age and covered by the required apprenticeship agreements.

(f) Apprenticeship agreement means a written agreement as provided by USDOL/OA and the Department of Health/Plumbing and Natural Gas section signed by the apprentice and (if the apprentice is a minor) the parent or guardian, the local apprenticeship committee and the participating company.

(g) USDOL/OA means the United States Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship.

(h) State Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee means people designated by the Board to assist in carrying out the provisions of Act 412 of 1991 as amended.

(i) Local apprenticeship committee means a group composed of master and/or journeyman plumbers who are licensed as prescribed by law to carry out the provision of Act 412 of 1991 as amended.

(j) Master plumber means any person licensed as prescribed by law skilled in the planning, superintending, and the practical installation of plumbing, and who is familiar with Act 412 of 1991 and Act 200 of 1951 as amended.

(k) Journeyman plumber means any person licensed as prescribed by law, other than a master or apprentice plumber, who is engaged in the practical installation of plumbing.

(l) Local plumbing inspector means the individual authorized by the Department of Health to enforce the provisions of Act 200 of 1951 as amended and Act 412 of 1991 as amended.

(m) Laborer means any person engaged in trenching, transporting supplies, demolition, etc., whose primary function is physical in nature.

(n) Credit time means previous out of state work experience under the supervision of a master plumber in the plumbing trade equivalent to the educational requirements set forth by these regulations or in-state work after 1984 while registered with the Department of Health and USDOL/OA as required by Act 412 of 1991 as amended.

(o) “Final year of apprenticeship” means when an apprentice plumber has obtained four hundred eighty (480) hours or more of classroom instruction and completed six thousand (6,000) or more hours of on-the-job work in an approved United States Department of Labor apprenticeship program.