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Texas Register Preamble


The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation adopts an amendment to §75.20 concerning air conditioning and refrigeration contractors, without changes, as published in the March 30, 2001, issue of the Texas Register (26 TexReg 2472) and will not be republished.

The amendment corrects an omission in the previous rule adoption. The Department proposed and adopted amendments to §75.20, however, subsection (c) was inadvertently omitted and the Secretary of State's rules on correction do not allow an agency to submit corrections after the effective date of a rule. The Department is correcting this oversight by adding subsection (c) back into the rules.

No comments were received regarding adoption of this amendment.

This section will function by clarifying that obtaining a license by fraud or false representation is grounds for administrative sanctions and/or penalties which enforces the licensing requirements.

The amendment is adopted under the Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 51, §51.353 and Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated, Article 8861, §5. The Department interprets §51.353 as authorizing the Commissioner of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to adopt rules relating to administrative sanctions that may be enforced against a person regulated by the department. The Department interprets §5 as authorizing the Commissioner to deny, suspend or revoke a license for a violation under Article 8861 with respect to the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors License Law program.

The statutory provisions affected by the adopted amendment are Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 51, §51.353 and Texas Revised Civil Statutes, Article 8861, §5. No other statutes, articles, or codes are affected by the adoption.



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