FIRE DETECTION AND ALARM DEVICE
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Sec. 6002.001. PURPOSE
Correct Answer: The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard lives and property by:
(1) regulating the planning, certifying, leasing, selling, servicing, installing, monitoring,
and maintaining of fire detection and fire alarm devices and systems; and
(2) except as provided by rules adopted under Section 6002.051 or 6002.052,
prohibiting fire detection
and fire alarm devices, equipment, and systems not labeled or listed by a nationally
recognized testing laboratory.
Fire alarm device means
Correct Answer: any device capable, through audible or visible means, of warning
that fire or combustion has occurred or is occurring.
Fire alarm planning superintendent
,Correct Answer: means a licensed individual designated by a registered firm to:
(A)
plan a fire alarm or detection system that conforms to applicable adopted National Fire
Protection Association standards or other adopted standards; and
(B)
certify that each fire alarm or detection system as planned meets the standards as
provided by law.
Fire alarm technician
Correct Answer: means a licensed individual designated by a registered firm to:
(A)
inspect and certify that each fire alarm or detection system as installed meets the
standards provided by law; or
(B)
perform or directly supervise the servicing or maintaining of a previously installed fire
alarm device or system and certify that service or maintenance.
Fire detection device means
Correct Answer: any arrangement of materials, the sole function of which is to
indicate the existence of fire, smoke, or combustion in its incipient stages.
Individual means
,Correct Answer: a natural person, including an owner, manager, officer, employee,
occupant, or other individual.
Installation means
Correct Answer: (A)
the initial placement of equipment; or
(B)
the extension, modification, or alteration of equipment already in pl
Insurance agent means:
Correct Answer: (A) an individual, firm, or corporation licensed under:
(i)
Subchapter E, Chapter 981; or
(ii)
Subchapter A, B, C, D, E, or G, Chapter 4051; or
(B)
an individual authorized to represent an insurance fund or pool created by a
municipality, county, or other political subdivision of this state under Chapter 791,
Government Code.
Maintenance means
Correct Answer: the maintenance of a fire alarm device or a fire detection device in a
condition of repair that provides performance as originally designed or intended.
, Monitoring means
Correct Answer: the receipt of fire alarm and supervisory signals or communication of
those signals to a fire service communications center in this state or serving property in
this state.
Organization means
Correct Answer: a corporation, a government or a governmental subdivision or
agency, a business trust, an estate, a trust, a partnership, a firm or association, two or
more individuals with a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
Registered firm means
Correct Answer: an individual or organization that holds a registration certificate.
Residential fire alarm superintendent means a licensed individual designated by a
registered firm to
Correct Answer: (A)plan a residential single-family or two-family fire alarm or
detection system that conforms to applicable adopted National Fire Protection
Association standards or other adopted standards; and
(B)certify that each fire alarm or detection system as planned meets the standards as
provided by law.