SECTION 34.606. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) Approval--The document issued by the State Fire Marshal's Office to an individual or entity acknowledging that the individual or entity meets the requirements to perform the functions of an approved instructor or approved training school under this subchapter and the Insurance Code Chapter 6002.

(2) Business--Inspecting, planning, certifying, leasing, selling, servicing, testing, installing, monitoring, or maintaining of fire alarm or fire detection devices and systems.

(3) Certificate--The certificate of registration issued by the state fire marshal.

(4) Certify--To attest to the proper planning or servicing, installing, or maintaining of fire detection and fire alarm devices and systems, including monitoring equipment, by attaching a completed installation/service record label and completing an installation certificate form or other additional form required by a governmental authority.

(5) Commissioner--The commissioner of insurance.

(6) Department--The Texas Department of Insurance.

(7) Designated employee--An individual specified by a registered firm as a full-time employee and a licensee under this subchapter.

(8) Direct supervision--The control of work, excluding the installation of conduit, raceways, junction boxes, back boxes, or similar electrical enclosures, as it is being performed on fire detection or fire alarm devices and systems by a licensed fire alarm technician or a licensed fire alarm planning superintendent..

(9) Firm--An individual or an organization, as defined in the Insurance Code §6002.002.

(10) Full-time--The number of hours that represents the regular, normal, or standard amount of time per week each employee of the firm devotes to work-related activities.

(11) Full-time employment--An employee is considered to work on a full-time basis if the employee works per week at least the average number of hours worked per week by all other employees of the firm.

(12) Instructor--An individual approved under the Insurance Code Chapter 6002 and this subchapter to provide training in installing, servicing, inspecting, and certifying fire alarm or detection systems in single-family or two-family residences.

(13) Local authority having jurisdiction--A fire chief, fire marshal, or other designated official having statutory authority.

(14) Monitoring equipment--Equipment used to transmit and receive fire alarm, trouble, and supervisory signals from protected premises to a firm registered to monitor or one exempt from licensing by the Insurance Code Chapter 6002.

(15) NFPA--National Fire Protection Association, a nationally recognized standards-making organization.

(16) NICET--National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies.

(17) Outsource testing service--The testing service selected by the state fire marshal to administer certain designated qualifying tests for licenses under this subchapter.

(18) Plan--To lay out, detail, draw, calculate, devise, or arrange an assembly of fire alarm or detection devices, equipment, and appurtenances, including monitoring equipment, in accordance with standards adopted in this subchapter.

(19) Primary registered firm--The registered fire alarm company with the responsibility for the fire alarm system certification.

(20) Repair--To restore to proper operating condition.

(21) Test--The act of subjecting a fire detection or alarm device or system, including monitoring equipment, to any procedure required by applicable standards or manufacturers' recommendations to determine whether it is properly installed or operates correctly.

(22) Training school--An entity that is approved under the Insurance Code Chapter 6002 and this subchapter to provide approved training in installing, certifying, inspecting, and servicing fire alarm or detection systems in single-family or two-family residences by approved instructors for the purpose of meeting the training requirements of an applicant for a residential fire alarm technician license issued under the applicable statutes and this subchapter.

Source Note: The provisions of this §34.606 adopted to be effective April 14, 1989, 14 TexReg 1639; transferred effective September 1, 1991, as published in the Texas Register March 6, 1992, 17 TexReg 1745; amended to be effective June 4, 1993, 18 TexReg 3297; amended to be effective November 27, 1995, 20 TexReg 9449; transferred effective September 1, 1997, as published in the Texas Register November 14, 1997, 22 TexReg 11091; amended to be effective July 14, 1999, 24 TexReg 5212; amended to be effective June 3, 2004, 29 TexReg 5402; amended to be effective April 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 1711; amended to be effective July 5, 2011, 36 TexReg 4111