The purpose of this chapter is to protect and improve the general health and welfare of the people of the State of Vermont in the fields of environmental sanitation, water treatment, domestic supply, and hydronically related hot water heating, by authorizing and enforcing rules and regulations for properly designed, acceptably installed, and adequately maintained plumbing, water treatment, and hydronically related water heating systems and by licensing qualified plumbers and qualified heating and water treatment specialists. (1959, No. 215, § 1, eff. June 2, 1959; amended 1993, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)