Tennessee to Vermont: journeyman plumber license reciprocity

Vermont issues a statewide Journeyman Plumber license (ledger code PJ) through the Plumber's Examining Board in the Division of Fire Safety. A new applicant must document a Vermont-registered plumbing apprenticeship (instruction plus practice verified by the Vermont Apprenticeship Council) or equivalent training and experience in or outside Vermont acceptable to the Board, then pass a written examination covering plumbing theory and practice, State laws, and Health and Environmental Conservation rules; the two-year license fee is $90 (26 V.S.A. s. 2193(c)). A journeyman installs plumbing and water-treatment or heating specialties under a master, may supervise an apprentice employed by a master, and shall not act as a master. Out-of-state journeymen have a statutory path without examination: uniform endorsement if the origin license has been held in good standing in another U.S. jurisdiction for at least three years (s. 2194(a)(2)), plus a narrower reciprocity path if the origin state or municipality has equivalent standards and grants Vermont licensees a like exemption (s. 2194(a)(1)). The Board publishes no named plumbing partner list on the DFS plumbing pages. Licenses last two years; renewal requires eight hours of Board-approved instruction in the prior 24 months plus the Vermont Energy Goals module (not more than two hours). Vermont also licenses Plumbing Specialists (PS: P1 water heater, P2 heating system, P3 water treatment), which are not the journeyman credential.

Tennessee has no statewide journeyman plumber license. The Board for Licensing Contractors licenses plumbing at two other levels only: the Limited Licensed Plumber (LLP), a personal license for projects under $25,000 in municipalities that use the Division of Fire Prevention for permits and inspections (T.C.A. § 62-6-403; photo ID, SSN, Prov LLP trade exam, $75 initial fee; general maintenance under $500 is exempt), and the contractor license with the CMC-A (plumbing) or CMC (full mechanical) classification, a business license required for plumbing work of $25,000 or more. The Board's LLP page tells applicants to check first whether the local government accepts the LLP or runs its own licensing. Journeyman plumber cards therefore exist only where a city or county examines plumbers itself. Metro Nashville's Mechanical, Plumbing, and Electrical Examiners and Appeals Board issues journeyman plumber (and apprentice plumber) certificates; Knoxville registers State Contractors, homeowners, or Unlicensed/State Limited License (LLE or LLP) holders to pull permits and does not publish a separate city journeyman plumber card on that page. An out-of-state journeyman plumber license has no state-level recognition in Tennessee: the Board's trade-exam-waiver form cannot be used for the LLP, and none of the city pages reviewed here publish a reciprocity or exam-waiver path for inbound journeymen.