Delaware to Georgia: journeyman plumber license reciprocity

Georgia issues a statewide Journeyman Plumber license through the Construction Industry Licensing Board's Division of Master and Journeyman Plumbers. Rule 121-3-.02 is the only CILB licensing rule that creates both master and journeyman credentials (electrical and conditioned-air rules license contractors only). A journeyman applicant must document at least one year of Primary or Secondary plumbing experience covered by the Georgia State Plumbing Code, score at least 70 on the Division's journeyman examination, name three licensed plumbers as references, and pay the Board's published application fee. Primary experience is direct installation under a licensed Master Plumber; secondary examples include county water/public-works maintenance work and full-time municipal or county plumbing inspection. Medical-gas piping is a separate statewide certificate (Rule 121-2-.11) available only to a current Georgia master or journeyman. Rule 121-2-.03 lets the Division issue a journeyman license by reciprocity or endorsement under a formal written agreement with another state board whose exam is substantially equal and who extend a similar privilege to Georgia licensees; the rules pages name no partner states. Everyone else applies by examination, with out-of-state hours counting toward the one-year experience minimum. Application-fee amounts, the exam vendor, CE hours and the renewal cycle are published on sos.ga.gov pages that returned 403 on this date.

Delaware does not issue a journeyman or journeyperson plumber license. The Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Examiners licenses only master plumbers (and master HVACR / master HVACR restricted), and 24 Del. C. § 1807(c)(1) lets an apprentice, journeyman, mechanic or other person provide plumbing services without a Board license while working under the supervision of a master plumber who is their employer or a full-time employee of the same business. An out-of-state journeyman plumber license therefore has nothing to transfer to in Delaware and is neither required nor recognized as a Delaware credential for employment. Delaware's own 'journeyman's certificate' in 24 Del. C. § 1808(a)(1) is a certificate of completion from a plumbing apprenticeship that meets or exceeds federal BAT/OA standards, issued in any state: it is an experience credential used toward the Master Plumber license, not a license. With that certificate, two years of post-apprenticeship work under a master plumber (or a similar-level licensee in another state) qualifies an applicant for the master exam; without it, seven years of such supervised experience plus the apprenticeship equivalency (bypass) tests are required. Out-of-state journeyman hours gained under a licensed master count toward those master-exam experience requirements.