* § 45-b. Further requirements relating to the business of plumbing.
1. No person otherwise qualified shall engage in the trade, business or
calling of a plumber or of plumbing in a city of this state as employing
or master plumber until he has first procured from the board of health
or the examining board of plumbers if so designated by local law in such
city or, in the city of New York, from the department of health, a metal
plate or sign appropriately lettered or marked "licensed plumber;" such
plate or sign to be conspicuously posted in the window of the place
where such business is conducted. Any person retiring, abandoning or not
actually engaged in such trade, business or calling hereinbefore
mentioned, shall surrender to the board of health or the examining board
of plumbers if so designated by local law of the city, or, in the city
of New York, to the department of health such metal plate or sign and
shall not again engage in such trade, business or calling until he has
again procured a metal sign as herein provided.

2. Within thirty days after this section takes effect, the board of
health or the examining board of plumbers if so designated by local law
in every city of this state and in the city of New York, the department
of health, shall prepare metal plates or signs, at least fourteen inches
wide and not less than twenty-two inches in length appropriately
lettered or marked "licensed plumber," the lines of each letter to be
four inches long and five-eighths of an inch wide; such plate or sign
shall, on some part thereof, contain an identification number, which
number together with the name and location of the place of business of
the person to whom issued shall be recorded in the office of such board
of health or the examining board of plumbers if so designated by local
law, or such department of health in the city of New York. Every person
now actually engaged or about to engage in the trade, business or
calling of a plumber or of plumbing as employing or master plumber, who
has otherwise complied with the provisions of law relating to the
conduct of such business upon the payment of five dollars to the board
of health or the examining board of plumbers if so designated by local
law of such city, or in the city of New York to the department of
health, shall have issued to him a sign or plate hereinbefore described.
In the city of New York a renewal fee of two dollars per annum shall be
charged for each such plate or sign which shall be issued without
reexamination, such fee to be paid by the holder of such plate or sign
to the department of health annually during the month of January. Any
person to whom such plate or sign has been issued who shall loan, rent,
sell or transfer the same to another person whether such person be
entitled to receive a similar plate or sign or not, or otherwise
wilfully violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars for the
first offense, and not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars for a subsequent offense, and in addition thereto shall
forfeit his license and certificate of qualifications.

The provisions of this section shall apply to all cities of the state,
including the city of New York.

* NB There are 2 § 45-b's