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Business - ANS-Planning, promoting, installing, preserving, or servicing hearth protection
sprinkler systems.
Certificate - ANS-The certificates of registration issued by using the state hearth marshal.
Certificates of registration - ANS-(1) Applications for certificates must be submitted on forms
provided by way of the country fireplace marshal and need to be observed by way of all other
statistics required via Insurance Code Chapter 6003 and this subchapter. An utility will not be
deemed complete until all required paperwork and files have been acquired in the State Fire
Marshal's Office. (2) Applications must be signed through the only proprietor, through every
associate of a partnership, or via an officer of a employer. For corporations, the software need to
be followed by using the company charter of a Texas business enterprise or, in the case of a
foreign organization, a duplicate of the Texas certificates of authority to do business. For
candidates the use of an assumed name, the application ought to additionally be observed by
using proof of compliance with [the Assumed Business or Professional Name Act,] Business
and Commerce Code Chapter seventy one, Assumed Business or Professional Name Act. The
utility ought to also include written authorization with the aid of the applicant that permits the
state fire marshal or the kingdom fireplace marshal's consultant to go into, examine, and
investigate any premises, constructing, room, or status quo utilized by the applicant whilst
engaged in the commercial enterprise so the state hearth marshal can [to] determine whether or
not the applicant is in compliance with the provisions of Insurance Code Chapter 6003 and this
subchapter. (three) For groups, the utility need to also consist of the corporate taxpayer
identification variety, the constitution quantity, and a copy of the employer's contemporary
franchise tax certificate from the State Comptroller's Office that shows the employer is in
energetic reputation [certificate of good standing issued by the state comptroller]. (4) An
applicant must now not designate as its full-time accountable dealing with worker (RME) a
person who's the particular complete-time RME of another registered firm. (
Certificates of registration - ANS-(A) all preliminary packages ought to [shall] encompass an
utility fee of--$50; (B) preliminary fee--$900; (C) renewal rate (for 2 years)--$1,800; (D) renewal
late rate (expired 1 day to ninety days)--$450; (E) renewal overdue charge (expired ninety one
days to two years)--$900
Certificates of registration--(Dwelling or Underground fire principal) - ANS-(A) all initial packages
ought to [shall] consist of an utility price of--$50; (B) preliminary charge--$three hundred; (C)
renewal rate (for two years)--$six hundred; (D) renewal past due charge (expired 1 day to 90
days)--$one hundred fifty; (E) renewal past due fee (expired ninety one days to 2 years)--$three
hundred
Certify - ANS-To attest to the right making plans, putting in, keeping, or servicing of hearth
safety sprinkler structures with the aid of executing a contractor's material and check certificates
or different shape required by a governmental authority or via attaching a finished provider tag.
Department - ANS-The Texas Department of Insurance.
,Duplicate or revised certificate or license or different asked modifications to certificates or
licenses - ANS-$35
Dwelling - ANS-This certificate permits the fireplace protection sprinkler machine contractor to
conduct the planning, income, set up, maintenance, or servicing of a one- or -own family
residing fire safety sprinkler system or any part of this sort of gadget.
Emergency impairment - ANS-A condition wherein a water-primarily based hearth protection
system or element thereof is out of order due to an sudden occurrence, such as ruptured pipe,
an operated sprinkler, or an interruption of the water supply to the device.
Employee - ANS-An man or woman that who plays responsibilities assigned with the aid of the
corporation. The employee's pay is situation to the deduction of social protection and federal
profits tax. The worker may be full time, part time, or seasonal. For the purposes of this section,
personnel of a registered company who are paid thru a body of workers leasing company are
considered to be employees of the registered company.
Fire Protection Sprinkler System - ANS-an meeting of underground or overhead piping or
conduits that conveys water without or with different retailers to dispersal openings or devices
to: (A) extinguish, control, or comprise fireplace; and (B) offer protection from publicity to hearth
or the products of
Fire protection sprinkler gadget contractor - ANS-an man or woman or organization that offers to
adopt, represents itself as being capable of undertake, or undertakes the plan, sale, installation,
upkeep, or servicing of: (A) a fireplace safety sprinkler device; or (B) any a part of a fire
protection sprinkler gadget
Firm - ANS-A man or woman or enterprise as defined in this section
Full-time - ANS-The variety of hours that represents the regular, normal, or widespread quantity
of time in line with week every employee of the firm devotes to paintings-associated activities.
Full-time employment foundation - ANS-An employee is considered to work on a fulltime basis if
the employee works in line with week at least the common wide variety of hours worked in line
with week by using all different employees of the firm.
General - ANS-This certificate allows a hearth protection sprinkler gadget contractor to conduct
the planning, income, installation, upkeep, or servicing of any hearth safety sprinkler gadget or
any a part of one of these device.
Individual - ANS-a herbal individual, inclusive of an proprietor, supervisor, officer, worker, or
occupant.
Inspection - ANS-A visual examination of a system or element thereof to confirm that it seems to
be in operating circumstance and is freed from physical damage.
Inspection, checking out, and protection service - ANS-A provider program supplied by a
certified contractor in which all components specific to the property's structures are inspected
and examined at the required instances and essential renovation is furnished and/or endorsed.
This application includes logging and retention of relevant information
Installation - ANS-the preliminary placement of equipment; or (B) the extension, amendment, or
alteration of gadget after preliminary placement.
Insurance agent - ANS-(A) an man or woman, firm, or agency certified underneath: (i)
Subchapter E, Chapter 981; or (ii) Subchapter A, B, C, D, E, or G, Chapter 4051; or (B) an
person legal to represent an coverage fund or pool created through a municipality, county, or
different political subdivision of this country under Chapter 791, Government Code.
, Insurance required - ANS-(A) The kingdom fireplace marshal ought to no longer issue a
certificate of registration under this subchapter except the applicant files with the state fireplace
marshal's workplace a evidence of legal responsibility coverage. The coverage ought to include
merchandise and completed operations coverage. (B) Each registered firm ought to keep in
force and on record within the State Fire Marshall's Office the certificates of coverage identifying
the insured and the precise nature of the commercial enterprise insured. In figuring out the
named insured, the certificates of coverage should encompass either an assumed call or the
name of the business enterprise; companions, if any; or sole proprietor, as applicable. Failure to
do so will be purpose for administrative action. (C) Evidence of public legal responsibility
insurance, as required via Insurance Code §6003.152 [§6001.152], must be inside the shape of
a certificate of coverage finished by an insurer legal to do enterprise on this country, or a
certificates of coverage for surplus traces coverage, secured in compliance with Insurance Code
Chapter 981, as contemplated via Insurance Code §6003.152(c) [§6001.152(c)]. (b)
Responsible dealing with worker licenses. (1) Original and renewal applications for a license
from an employee of a company engaged inside the enterprise must be submitted on paperwork
supplied with the aid of the country fire marshal, along with a crook history file from the Texas
Department of Public Safety and accompanied by using all other information required through
Insurance Code Chapter 6003 and this subchapter.
License - ANS-file issued to a accountable managing employee authorizing the employee to
interact in the hearth protection sprinkler system enterprise in this nation.
Maintenance - ANS-the protection of a hearth protection sprinkler system or any part of a fire
protection sprinkler device in the condition of restore that provides overall performance as firstly
deliberate.
More Test info - ANS-(d) Late expenses are required of all certificate or license holders who fail
to post renewal applications before their expiration dates. (e) A license or registration expires
[shall expire] at 12:00 nighttime on the date printed on the license or registration. A renewal
application and rate for license or registration must be postmarked on or before the date of
expiration to be prevalent as timely. If a renewal software isn't always complete but there was no
lapse in the required insurance, the applicant will [shall] have 30 days from the time the
applicant is notified via the State Fire Marshal's Office of the deficiencies within the renewal
application to publish any additional requirement. If an applicant fails to reply and correct all
deficiencies in a renewal utility in the 30-day duration, a overdue price may be charged. (f)
Holders of certificates and licenses that [which] have been expired for less than years can't be
issued new certificate or licenses. (g) Fees for certificates and licenses that [which] had been
expired for much less than years encompass each renewal and overdue fees.
NFPA - ANS-National Fire Protection Association, a nationally identified requirements-making
organization.
NFPA 13-2013 - ANS-Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
NFPA 13D-2013 - ANS-Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in One- and
Two-Family Dwellings and Manufactured Homes
NFPA 13R-2013 - ANS-Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in Low-Rise
Residential Occupancies
NFPA 14-2013 - ANS-Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose Systems
NFPA 15-2012 - ANS-Standard for Water Spray Fixed Systems for Fire Protection
