No state license — city/county licensing
No state plumbing board — licensing is by city only (e.g. City of Omaha Planning Department; City of Lincoln Building and Safety Department) runs plumbing licensing in Nebraska. Below: the exact ladder, the transfer doors into Nebraska from all 50 states, the renewal and lapse lines, and the master-of-record rule for opening a company — every figure from the board's own publications, checked October 22, 2026.
No state license — city/county licensing Checked in part Checked October 22, 2026
Checked in part. Nebraska has no state plumbing licensing agency or state plumbing license to cite; the 'none' model is the universally documented structure and no Nebraska statute creates a state plumber license. City-level figures in localNote (Omaha/Lincoln) are summaries of those cities' programs and were not re-verified ordinance-by-ordinance in this batch. Separately, plumbing contractors/subcontractors doing business in Nebraska must register with the Nebraska Department of Labor as contractors — registration is not a plumbing license.
No state plumber license. Nebraska does not license plumbers at the state level — there is no state journeyman or master license to apply for. Licensing is done by cities and counties, and the local rules are the real rules where you work.
| The ladder | Nebraska |
|---|---|
| Journeyman credential | No state journeyman plumber license (city licenses only) |
| Total hours required | not published |
| Classroom hours | not published |
| Apprentice registration | No state registration system |
| Exam | City licensing board (varies by jurisdiction) — No state examination exists. |
| License fee | Not published |
| Renewal | Every Local (varies by jurisdiction) |
| Continuing education | Local (varies — e.g. Lincoln and Omaha each impose their own CE hours; no state CE requirement) |
| Master credential | No state master plumber license (city licenses only) |
Registration, in the board’s terms: No state apprentice registration. Omaha registers apprentice plumbers and requires a four-year apprenticeship before the journeyman exam; Lincoln licenses apprentice, journeyman, master and contractor grades through its Building and Safety Department. Requirements, fees and exams differ by city and a license from one Nebraska city does not automatically authorise work in another.
No state master plumber license (city licenses only): No state requirement. Omaha, for example, licenses a master plumber on four consecutive years of experience as a licensed journeyman (or equivalent qualification from a city of equivalent size/standards) plus the Omaha master examination; Lincoln runs its own master grade.
Omaha's municipal code extends limited reciprocity to journeymen/masters licensed in a city of equivalent size with similar qualification criteria — a city-to-city endorsement, not a state program.
There is no state license to lapse. Renewal, late-renewal and re-examination rules are set by each issuing city.
Reinstatement: Governed by the issuing city only.
Past the line: Governed by the issuing city only.
There is no Nebraska state license to endorse into — licensing is local, and local boards weigh verified out-of-state experience case by case. No state reciprocity exists because Nebraska issues no state plumbing license. Any endorsement (e.g. Omaha's equivalent-city provision) is granted by the city plumbing board.
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| Alabama | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Alaska | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Arizona | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Arkansas | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| California | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Colorado | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Connecticut | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Delaware | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| District of Columbia | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Florida | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Georgia | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Hawaii | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Idaho | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Illinois | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Indiana | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Iowa | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Kansas | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Kentucky | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Louisiana | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Maine | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Maryland | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Massachusetts | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Michigan | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Minnesota | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Mississippi | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Missouri | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Montana | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Nevada | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| New Hampshire | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| New Jersey | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| New Mexico | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| New York | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| North Carolina | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| North Dakota | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Ohio | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Oklahoma | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Oregon | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Pennsylvania | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Rhode Island | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| South Carolina | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| South Dakota | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Tennessee | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Texas | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Utah | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Vermont | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Virginia | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Washington | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| West Virginia | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Wisconsin | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
| Wyoming | No state license — licensing is local | Run the pair → |
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The seat: None at state level (city master/contractor requirements vary). Nebraska imposes no statewide master-of-record gate for plumbing businesses. Contractors must register with the Nebraska Department of Labor (contractor registration, not licensure), and cities such as Omaha and Lincoln require the work itself to be under a locally licensed master plumber / licensed plumbing contractor.
The two programs that matter most: Omaha (Planning Department — apprentice certificate, journeyman and master licenses; four-year apprenticeship to journeyman, four years as a journeyman to master) and Lincoln (Building and Safety Department — apprentice, journeyman, master and master plumber contractor licenses). Outside the larger cities, many Nebraska communities have little or no local plumbing licensing, but permits and the state plumbing code still apply.
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Rules as published by No state plumbing board — licensing is by city only (e.g. City of Omaha Planning Department; City of Lincoln Building and Safety Department) and the statutes it administers, checked October 22, 2026. Board: https://www.nebraska.gov/
