New Mexico Plumbing Continuing Education
Our courses are approved with the New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department to meet all of your continuing education needs.
Take the continuing education to renew your NM plumbers license today. All of our courses can be completed At Your Pace Online to help you meet the state's requirements to maintain your license. Once you finish your class you will have an official certificate of completion to save for your records, and we will report your course completion to the state for you.
New Mexico 16-Hour Package for Journeyman Plumbers
16h course
This is package is specifically designed to meet all of the education requirements of a Journeyman Plumber to renew your license. This package includes:
- 8 Hours of Code Changes to the 2021 UPC
- 8 Hours of Industry Related Topics
Our New Mexican Plumbing continuing education courses are done At Your Own Pace.
NM Construction Industries Division Approved
New Mexico Industry Related Continuing Education (8 Hours)
8h course
This 8 hour class on Industry Related topics for New Mexican Plumbers covers multiple aspects of running a successful and safe plumbing business. It will meet the 8 hours of Industry Related Topics needed by all licensees in the state.
Our New Mexican Plumbing continuing education courses are done At Your Own Pace.
NM Construction Industries Division Approved
New Mexico 8-Hour 2021 UPC Update
8h course
This class provides eight hours of required content on code changes with a focus on all amendments made by the Mechanical and Plumbing Bureau when adopting the 2021 UPC for the state followed by an in-depth survey of the significant changes made to the model 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code, on which the 2021 NMPC is based.
New Mexico Industry-Related - Drainage Systems Disposal or Reuse (8 Hours)
8h course
This 8-hour class on topics central to the plumbing trades is designed to accompany a required 8-hour code change class to fulfill the 16 hours needed to renew a plumber's license in New Mexico. It provides a comprehensive study on all aspects of residential and commercial sanitary drainage systems as well as recent developments in grease interceptors. After a brief overview of Rainwater Harvesting, the class covers two related topics, both experiencing rapid changes - POWTS (Private Onsite Water Treatment Systems) and systems that reuse graywater.
NM Construction Industries Division Approved
New Mexico Industry-Related - Common Plumbing Problems (8 Hours)
8h course
This course provides eight hours of content on topics central to the plumbing trades. It includes a comprehensive module on all aspects of residential water heaters followed by an in-depth survey of some of the most often cited violations and thorny plumbing areas and how to address them. The final module provides two hours of OSHA Safety Training for Plumbers. The class is designed to fulfill the eight hours of course content on industry-related topics.
NM Construction Industries Division Approved
CE Requirements to Renew a NM Plumbers License
Figuring out how to renew your New Mexico plumbing certificate isn’t necessarily easy. While your license gets issued by the New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department (RLD), they certainly don’t make it simple to figure out how to renew your license. You’d have to navigate to multiple different web pages to get all the info you need. We saved you the trouble. Here, you’ll find everything you need to know to renew a New Mexico plumbing certificate, including the continuing education unit (CEU) requirement.
When to renew
- Your journeyman plumbing license expires every three years.
- To keep it active, you need to renew it before the last day of the month you got it. So if you got your license in September, you need to renew it by September 30 every three years. Or if you got it in March, you need to renew by March 31 every three years.
You should get a renewal notice in the mail, but that all depends on the state having the correct address for you. It’s your responsibility to renew on time, whether or not you get a notice. (If you need to update the address they have on file for you, you can do it in the MyLicense portal.)
If you send in your application within six months after your expiration date, you’ll have to pay an additional $25 late fee. After six months, the state considers your license cancelled.
How to renew
To renew your New Mexico journeyman plumbing and mechanical certificate, you just need to do two things:
Take continuing education units (CEUs)
The state requires you to take sixteen hours of continuing education during each three-year renewal period. This applies if you have any of the following journeyman designations:
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Journeyman plumber (JP)
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Journeyman pipefitter (JPF)
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Journeyman gas (JG)
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Journeyman plumber-gas (JPG)
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Journeyman sheetmetal (JSM)
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Journeyman sprinkler (JS)
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Journeyman refrigeration (JR)
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Journeyman fire protection (MS-12J, or MS 14J)
To count toward the New Mexico plumbing certificate CEU requirement, those sixteen hours need to be broken into two categories:
You don’t need to sign up for a seminar or go to a classroom to get these hours. And you don’t need to take time off work, either. You can take your New Mexico plumber CEUs online at your own pace.
Once you get your 16 CEUs done, you’re ready to send in your renewal application.
Submit your renewal online
You can renew your license online using the MyLicense portal.
If you’ve never set up your user ID and password, you can do so here. You’ll need your license number and your registration code. That code should be printed on the renewal notice you get from the state.
If you can’t find your code, you can contact the Mechanical Plumbing Bureau. At the time of this writing, the Bureau Chief is Jerome Baca. You can reach him at (505) 490-2997 or jerome.baca@state.nm.us.
When you get logged into the MyLicense system, you’ll need to pay a $75 fee as part of the renewal process. Have a payment method handy and getting your renewal submitted should be easy.