(a) Applicants for Intermediate Marine Fire Protection
Personnel certification must complete the following requirements:
(1) hold, as a prerequisite, a Basic Marine Fire Protection
Personnel certification as defined in §423.303 of this title
(relating to Minimum Standards for Basic Marine Fire Protection Personnel
Certification); and
(2) acquire a minimum of four years of fire protection
experience and complete the training listed in one of the following
options:
(A) Option 1--Successfully complete six semester hours
of fire science or fire technology from an approved Fire Protection
Degree Program and submit documentation as required by the commission
that the courses comply with subsections (b) and (c) of this section;
or
(B) Option 2--Completion of coursework from either
the A-List or the B-List courses. Acceptable combinations of courses
are as follows: two A-List courses; or eight B-List courses; or one
A-List course and four B-List courses. (See the exception outlined
in subsection (c) of this section); or
(C) Option 3--Completion of coursework from either
the A-List or the B-List courses in combination with college courses
in fire science or fire protection. Acceptable combinations of courses
are three semester hours meeting the requirements of Option 1 with
either one A-List course or four B-List courses. (See the exception
outlined in subsection (c) of this section).
(b) Non-traditional credit awarded at the college level,
such as credit for experience or credit by examination obtained from
attending any school in the commission’s Certification Curriculum
Manual or for experience in fire service, may not be counted towards
this level of certification.
(c) The training required in this section must be in
addition to any training used to qualify for any lower level of Marine
Fire Protection Personnel certification. Repeating a course, or a
course of similar content, cannot be used towards this level of certification.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §423.305 adopted to be effective November 1, 1998, 23 TexReg 10890; amended to be effective July 29, 2002, 27 TexReg 6723; amended to be effective December 16, 2002, 27 TexReg 11795; amended to be effective August 5, 2004, 29 TexReg 7452; amended to be effective November 28, 2007, 32 TexReg 8526; amended to be effective November 20, 2017, 42 TexReg 6519 |