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TITLE 16ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 1RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
CHAPTER 9LP-GAS SAFETY RULES
SUBCHAPTER AGENERAL REQUIREMENTS
RULE §9.10Rules Examination

    (C) The Category A-2 examination qualifies an individual to assemble, repair, install, subframe, test, and sell DOT cylinders.

    (D) The Category B examination qualifies an individual to subframe, test, and sell transport containers; test LP-gas storage containers; install, test, and sell LP-gas motor or mobile fuel containers and systems; and install and repair transport systems and motor or mobile fuel systems.

    (E) The Category C examination qualifies an individual to transport LP-gas in a transport equipped with one or more containers, load and unload LP-gas, and install and repair transport systems.

    (F) The Category D examination qualifies an individual to sell, service, and install containers, and to service, install, and repair piping and appliances, excluding motor fuel containers, motor fuel systems, recreational vehicle containers, or recreational vehicle systems.

    (G) The Category E examination qualifies an individual to store, sell, transport and distribute LP-gas and perform all other categories of licensed activities except the manufacture, fabrication, assembly, repair, subframing, and testing of LP-gas containers and the sale and installation of LP-gas motor or mobile fuel systems rated at more than 25 horsepower.

    (H) The Category F examination qualifies an individual to operate a cylinder-filling facility, including cylinder filling, the sale of LP-gas in cylinders, and the replacement of cylinder valves.

    (I) The Category G examination qualifies an individual to operate an LP-gas dispensing station to fill ASME motor or mobile fuel containers.

    (J) The Category H examination qualifies an individual to transport and sell LP-gas in cylinders.

    (K) The Category I examination qualifies an individual to operate a service station as set out in Category F and G.

    (L) The Category J examination qualifies an individual to operate a service station as set out in Category I, transport cylinders as set out in Category H and install and connect DOT cylinders.

    (M) The Category K examination qualifies an individual to sell and distribute LP-gas through mains or pipes, and to install and repair LP-gas systems.

    (N) The Category L examination qualifies an individual to sell and install both LP-gas motor or mobile fuel containers and fuel systems on engines.

    (O) The Category M examination qualifies an individual to sell, service, and install recreational vehicle containers, and to install, repair, and service recreational vehicle appliances, piping, and LP-gas systems, including recreational vehicle motor or mobile fuel systems and containers.

    (P) The Category N examination qualifies an individual to service and install containers that supply fuel to manufactured housing, and to install, repair, and service appliances and piping systems for manufactured housing.

    (Q) The Category O examination qualifies an individual to test LP-gas containers, motor or mobile fuel systems, transfer systems, and transport systems to determine the safety of the containers or systems for LP-gas service, including the necessary installation, disconnection, reconnection, testing, and repair of LP-gas motor fuel systems or mobile fuel systems, transfer systems, and transport systems involved in the testing of containers.

    (R) The Category P examination qualifies an individual to operate a portable cylinder exchange service where LP-gas is sold in portable cylinders whose LP-gas capacity does not exceed 21 pounds, where the portable cylinders are not filled on site, and where no other LP-gas activity requiring a license is conducted.

(e) Within 15 calendar days of the date an individual takes an examination, AFS shall notify the individual of the results of the examination. If the examination is graded or reviewed by a testing or proctoring service, AFS shall notify the individual of the examination results within 14 days of the date AFS receives the results from the testing or proctoring service. If the notice of the examination results will be delayed for longer than 90 days after the examination date, AFS shall notify the individual of the reason for the delay before the 90th day. AFS may require a testing or proctoring service to notify an individual of the individual's examination results.

(f) Failure of any examination shall immediately disqualify the individual from performing any LP-gas related activities covered by the examination which is failed, except for activities covered by a separate examination which the individual has passed.

  (1) Any individual who fails an examination administered by the Commission at the Austin location may retake the same examination one additional time during a business day.

  (2) Any subsequent examination shall be taken on another business day, unless approved by the AFS director.

  (3) An individual who fails an examination may request an analysis of the individual's performance on the examination.

(g) The Commission shall not issue a certificate to an applicant for a management-level certificate that requires completion of a course of instruction until the applicant completes both the required course of instruction and passes the required management-level rules examination.

(h) An applicant for a management-level certificate shall pass the management-level rules examination within two years after completing a required course of instruction. An applicant who fails to pass such an examination within two years of completing such a course shall reapply as a new applicant.


Source Note: The provisions of this §9.10 adopted to be effective February 1, 2001, 26 TexReg 947; amended to be effective May 28, 2001, 26 TexReg 3742; amended to be effective June 9, 2003, 28 TexReg 4412; amended to be effective September 1, 2005, 30 TexReg 4810; amended to be effective February 12, 2007, 32 TexReg 519; amended to be effective October 29, 2007, 32 TexReg 7675; amended to be effective February 1, 2008, 33 TexReg 138; amended to be effective December 24, 2012, 37 TexReg 9913; amended to be effective January 4, 2016, 41 TexReg 238; amended to be effective January 6, 2020, 45 TexReg 127; amended to be effective July 18, 2022, 47 TexReg 4119

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