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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 15. Virginia Board For Asbestos, Lead, And Home Inspectors
Chapter 20. Virginia Asbestos Licensing Regulations
11/7/2024

18VAC15-20-453. Conflict of interest.

The following situations and relationships between license categories are deemed to represent a conflict of interest and are prohibited.

1. It is a conflict of interest and a violation of this chapter for an asbestos contractor to have an employee/employer relationship with, or financial interest in, a laboratory utilized by the contractor for asbestos sample analysis. Laboratories owned by the building owner performing analysis on suspect asbestos samples taken from the building owners' property are exempt from this section.

2. It is a conflict of interest and a violation of this chapter for an asbestos contractor to have an employee/employer relationship with an asbestos project monitor working on an asbestos project performed by that asbestos contractor. An asbestos contractor shall not have any financial interests in the firm of which a project monitor is an employee and provides project monitoring services for that contractor. This section does not relieve a contractor of the OSHA personal monitoring requirements set forth in 29 CFR 1926.1101.

3. It is a conflict of interest and a violation of this chapter for an asbestos contractor to enter into a contract to perform an asbestos project if the asbestos inspection or project design was performed by individuals with an employer/employee relationship with, or financial interest in, the asbestos contractor, unless the asbestos contractor provides the building owner with the Virginia Asbestos Licensing Consumer Information Sheet and the Virginia Asbestos Licensing Inspector/Project Designer/Contractor Disclosure Form as prescribed by the department. The asbestos contractor's relationship with the asbestos inspector or project designer on the project shall be disclosed. The disclosure form shall be signed and dated by the licensed contractor and submitted as part of the bid. The disclosure form shall be kept on the asbestos project site and available for review.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-201 and 54.1-501 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 18, Issue 6, eff. January 2, 2002; amended, Virginia Register Volume 23, Issue 3, eff. December 1, 2006.

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