Water Well Drillers' Licenses

Harrington Adams, Deputy Attorney General, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General,

We have received your request of September 16, 1957, for an opinion with regard to the legality of prorating license fees charged applicants for water well drillers’ licenses who apply late in the fee year.

The licensing of water well drillers is provided for by the Act of May 29, 1956, P. L. 1840, 32 PS §645.1 et seq., known as the Water Well Drillers License Act. The act provides in section 4, 32 PS §645.4, that:

*559“(a) After the effective date of this act, no person shall drill a water well within the…