South Dakota Plumbing Commission
Reciprocity
The Plumbing Commission can reciprocate a license if the following conditions are met:
South Dakota Codified Law 36-25-21 states: The commission may register, without examination upon the payment of the required fee, nonresident applicants registered under the laws of other states having requirements for regulating plumbers which the commission determines are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this state.
Per Administrative Rule 20:53:02:21: Applicants for any license issued by the commission who desire to be licensed without examination shall apply for their South Dakota license on forms provided by the commission. The applicant shall have been licensed by examination in the state from which he comes, the state shall have licensure laws similar to South Dakota's, and the applicant's work in the state from which he comes shall comply with that state's plumbing code and that state's plumbing code shall be equal to or exceed the South Dakota state plumbing code. The commission will investigate these matters and may require affidavits.
If you received your license by testing on the IPC or another code, you need to provide verification of your current license and the experience necessary to obtain that license in order to be approved to take South Dakota’s examination for the same license type.
If the state you worked in did not require licensure to perform that type of work, you need to provide work experience verification and proof that licensure was not required in that state with your application in order to be approved for examination in South Dakota.
Applications and experience verification forms are available here on our website.
Contact the Commission at SDPlumbing@state.sd.us with any additional questions.