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TITLE 28INSURANCE
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
CHAPTER 34STATE FIRE MARSHAL
SUBCHAPTER FFIRE ALARM RULES
RULE §34.628Requirements for Residential Fire Alarm Technician Training Course

The training curriculum for a residential fire alarm technician training course must consist of at least seven hours of instruction on installing, servicing, and maintaining single-family and two-family residential fire alarm systems as defined by National Fire Protection Association Standard No. 72. The training curriculum for a residential fire alarm technician training course must include the following minimum instruction time for the following subjects:

  (1) one hour of instruction on Insurance Code Chapter 6002 and the Fire Alarm Rules;

  (2) one hour of instruction on the National Electric Code, NFPA 70;

  (3) four and one-half hours of total combined instruction on:

    (A) NFPA 72;

    (B) NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code; and

    (C) the International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings; and

  (4) one-half hour of instruction on the monitoring of household fire alarm systems.


Source Note: The provisions of this §34.628 adopted to be effective July 5, 2011, 36 TexReg 4111; amended to be effective February 14, 2013, 38 TexReg 662

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