Bill Text: TX SB1598 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the inspection of portable fire extinguishers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1598 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1598-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the inspection of portable fire extinguishers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1598 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1598-Comm_Sub.html
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relating to the inspection of portable fire extinguishers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6001.002, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subdivision (5-a) and amending Subdivision (7) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(5-a) "Portable fire extinguisher inspection" means a | ||
monthly inspection to ensure that a portable fire extinguisher: | ||
(A) is in the extinguisher's designated | ||
location; | ||
(B) has not been actuated or subject to | ||
tampering; and | ||
(C) does not have any obvious physical damage or | ||
another condition that may prevent proper operation of the | ||
extinguisher. | ||
(7) "Service" and "servicing" mean servicing a | ||
portable fire extinguisher or a fixed fire extinguisher system by | ||
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refilling, repairing, or testing. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 6001.156, Insurance | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The licensing provisions of this chapter do not apply | ||
to: | ||
(1) the filling or charging of a portable fire | ||
extinguisher by the manufacturer before initial sale of the fire | ||
extinguisher; | ||
(2) the servicing by a firm of the firm's portable fire | ||
extinguishers or fixed systems by the firm's personnel who are | ||
specially trained for that servicing; | ||
(2-a) the inspection of a firm's portable fire | ||
extinguisher by a person who is: | ||
(A) specially trained to perform portable fire | ||
extinguisher inspections; and | ||
(B) under contract with the firm for that | ||
purpose; | ||
(3) the installation of portable fire extinguishers in | ||
a building by the building owner, the owner's managing agent, or an | ||
employee of the building owner or the owner's managing agent; | ||
(4) the installation or servicing of water sprinkler | ||
systems installed in compliance with the National Fire Protection | ||
Association's Standards for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems; | ||
(5) a firm that is engaged in the retail or wholesale | ||
sale of portable fire extinguishers that carry an approval label or | ||
listing of a testing laboratory approved by the department, but | ||
that is not engaged in the installation or servicing of those | ||
extinguishers; | ||
(6) a fire department that services portable fire | ||
extinguishers as a public service without charge, if the members of | ||
the fire department are trained in the proper servicing of the fire | ||
extinguishers; | ||
(7) a firm that is a party to a contract under which: | ||
(A) the installation of portable fire | ||
extinguishers or a fixed fire extinguisher system is performed | ||
under the direct supervision of and certified by a firm | ||
appropriately registered to install and certify portable | ||
extinguishers or fixed systems; and | ||
(B) the registered firm assumes full | ||
responsibility for the installation; or | ||
(8) an engineer licensed under Chapter 1001, | ||
Occupations Code, while acting solely in the engineer's | ||
professional capacity. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |