1. (a) Enforcement of all applicable laws including the Act, Board rules, and Board orders vests in the Board.
2. (b) Enforcement of the Act, local codes, and ordinances, and local standards of competency vests in local authorities. The Board may take disciplinary actions as specified in Chapter 365 of this title, related to licensing, in the event of any violation of any of these requirements.
3. (c) Each locally designated plumbing inspector should enforce the Act and municipal ordinances and should file complaints with the Board and with local prosecutors.

4. (d) The Board shall employ a person knowledgeable of plumbing practice and law as field representative to assist in the enforcement of the Act. A field representative may:

   1. (1) Inspect plumbing work sites to assess compliance with the Law;
   2. (2) Inquire into consumer complaints and reported violations of the Law;
   3. (3) Assist municipal authorities in enforcing the Act; and
   4. (4) Issue citations for violations of the Act.
5. (e) The Board adopts the Southern Standard Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, and the National Standard Plumbing Code as approved plumbing codes for the State of Texas.
6. (f) A city, town, or village must adopt a plumbing code that does not substantially vary with the approved state codes, conflict with other state laws, or reduce the overall standards of a minimum code. Political subdivisions may require higher minimum standards as needed in order to protect the health and safety of their citizens.
7. (g) Any owner of a public water system other than a city, town or village may adopt a plumbing code that does not substantially vary with the approved state codes, conflict with other state laws, or reduce the overall standards of a minimum code, and shall otherwise ensure that standards for the design, installation and maintenance of water utility systems comply with minimum requirements promulgated by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, including but not limited to those provisions ensuring detection and elimination of cross connections and those provisions preventing the use of pipes and pipe fittings containing unacceptable levels of lead.
8. (h) The potable water supply piping for every plumbing fixture, including water closet plumbing fixtures and other equipment that use water shall be installed to prevent the back flow of non-potable substances into the potable water system according to the provisions of an adopted plumbing code. Water closet fill valves (ball cocks) shall be of the anti-siphon, integral vacuum breaker type with the critical level (the air inlet portion of the vacuum breaker) installed at least one inch (1") above the flood level rim of the fixture (the inlet of the water closet overflow tube).

Source Note:The provisions of this §367.1 adopted to be effective August 25, 1993, 18 TexReg 5400; amended to be effective December 8, 1993, 18 TexReg 8787; amended to be effective August 8, 1994, 19 TexReg 5711; amended to be effective February 5, 1998, 23 TexReg 755; amended to be effective January 30, 2001, 26 TexReg 975.