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Business - ✔✔Planning, selling, installing, maintaining, or servicing fire protection sprinkler
systems.
Certificate - ✔✔The certificate of registration issued by the state fire marshal.
Certify - ✔✔To attest to the proper planning, installing, maintaining, or servicing of fire
protection sprinkler systems by executing a contractor's material and test certificate or other
form required by a governmental authority or by attaching a completed service tag.
Department - ✔✔The Texas Department of Insurance.
Emergency impairment - ✔✔A condition where a water-based fire protection system or
portion thereof is out of order due to an unexpected occurrence, such as ruptured pipe, an
operated sprinkler, or an interruption of the water supply to the system.
Employee - ✔✔An individual that who performs tasks assigned by the employer. The
employee's pay is subject to the deduction of social security and federal income tax. The
employee may be full time, part time, or seasonal. For the purposes of this section, employees
of a registered firm who are paid through a staff leasing company are considered to be
employees of the registered firm.
Firm - ✔✔A person or organization as defined in this section
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.
,Full-time employment basis - ✔✔An employee is considered to work on a fulltime basis if the
employee works per week at least the average number of hours worked per week by all other
employees of the firm.
Inspection - ✔✔A visual examination of a system or portion thereof to verify that it appears
to be in operating condition and is free of physical damage.
Inspection, testing, and maintenance service - ✔✔A service program provided by a qualified
contractor in which all components unique to the property's systems are inspected and tested
at the required times and necessary maintenance is provided and/or recommended. This
program includes logging and retention of relevant records
NFPA - ✔✔National Fire Protection Association, a nationally recognized standards-making
organization.
NICET - ✔✔National Institute for the Certification in Engineering Technologies.
Outsource testing service - ✔✔The testing service selected by the state fire marshal to
administer certain designated qualifying tests for licenses under this subchapter.
Person - ✔✔A natural person
Plan - ✔✔To lay out, detail, draw, calculate, devise, or arrange an assembly of underground
and overhead piping and appurtenances in accordance with either adopted fire protection
standards or specifications especially designed by an engineer.
Registered firm - ✔✔A person or organization holding a current certificate of registration.
Repair - ✔✔Any work performed after initial installation on fire protection sprinkler systems,
not including inspecting or testing.
, Responsible managing employee - ✔✔A responsible managing employee, as defined in
Insurance Code §6003.001(10), and also referenced within this subchapter as an RME.
Section 34.707 Adopted Standards - ✔✔(a) The commissioner adopts by reference in their
entirety the following copyrighted standards and recommended practices published by and
available from the National Fire Protection Association, Inc. (NFPA), Batterymarch Park, Quincy,
Massachusetts 02269. A copy of the standards will be available for public inspection in the State
Fire Marshal's Office
Sprinkler system - ✔✔A sprinkler system, for fire protection purposes which: (A) is an
integrated system of underground and overhead piping designed in accordance with fire
protection engineering standards; (B) is an installation including a water supply such as a gravity
tank, fire pump, reservoir, or pressure tank, or connection by underground piping to a city main
from the point of connection or valve where the primary purpose of the water is for a fire
protection sprinkler system; (C) includes, as the portion of the sprinkler system aboveground, a
network of specially sized or hydraulically designed piping installed in a building, structure, or
area, generally overhead, and to which sprinklers are connected in a systematic pattern; (D)
includes a controlling valve and a device for actuating an alarm when the system is in
operation; and (E) is usually activated by heat from a fire and discharges water over the fire
area. (22) Testing--A procedure used to determine the status of a system as intended by
conducting periodic physical checks on water-based fire protection systems such as water-flow
tests, fire pump tests, alarm tests, and trip tests of dry pipe, deluge, or preaction valves. These
tests follow up on the original acceptance test at intervals specified in the applicable adopted
standard.
NFPA 13-2013 - ✔✔Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
NFPA 25-2014 - ✔✔Standard for the Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Water-Based
Fire Protection Systems
NFPA 13D-2013 - ✔✔Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in One- and Two-
Family Dwellings and Manufactured Homes
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