1. (a) The board shall inform a licensee of the impending expiration of a license or endorsement by sending written notice at lest 30 days before its expiration date to the licensee's last known mailing address according to board records.
2. (b) A licensee may renew an unexpired license or endorsement before its expiration date by paying the fee required by the board.
3. (c) The licensee's failure to receive the notice of expiration will not alter the licensee's responsibility to renew the license each year or endorsement every three years by its expiration date.
4. (d) In the case of the renewal of a plumbing inspector's license, the licensee must submit written proof of employment by a political subdivision along with the required renewal fee.
5. (e) Any journeyman plumber, master plumber, or plumbing inspector wishing to renew a license must submit to the administrator Board-approved documentation of successful completion within the previous license year of six hours of Board-approved continuing education, subject to the additional requirement in subsection (f) of this section. Any journeyman plumber or master plumber no longer required to have a current license because of retirement or of employment in an occupation which does not require the journeyman or master license may be exempted from complying with the continuing education requirements by submitting documentation each year in support of this fact and the license will be marked inactive. Should the individual return to the plumbing trade, he/she will be required to abide by the continuing education requirement before the license may be renewed. No inactive license may be issued or renewed after September 1, 1996.
6. (f) Any license holder with a medical gas endorsement must complete a Board approved medical gas continuing education class within the three-year period of the endorsement. The classroom hours shall consist of instruction of the most current edition of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 99C, Standard on Gas and Vacuum Systems, and the changes therein. No license holder with a medical gas endorsement may count the same medical gas continuing education class twice towards meeting the continuing education requirements for renewal of the medical gas endorsement on a plumbing license.
7. (g) Any license holder with a medical gas endorsement who lives in a county having no city with a population in excess of 100,000, or resides out of state, may fulfill the continuing education requirements defined in subsection (f) of this section by completing a correspondence course approved by the Board.

Source Note:The provisions of this §365.5 adopted to be effective May 18, 1982, 7 TexReg 1748; amended to be effective August 25, 1993, 18 TexReg 5399; amended to be effective December 8, 1993, 18 TexReg 8786; amended to be effective April 15, 1994, 19 TexReg 2280; amended to be effective June 7, 1996, 21 TexReg 4688; amended to be effective December 5, 1996, 21 TexReg 11485; amended to be effective April 9, 1998, 23 TexReg 3446; amended to be effective October 11, 1998, 23 TexReg 9979.