Texas Administrative Code › Title 28 - INSURANCE › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE › Chapter 34 - STATE FIRE MARSHAL › Subchapter F - FIRE ALARM RULES › Section 34.606 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
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.