The training curriculum for a residential fire alarm technician training course shall consist of at least eight hours of instruction on installing, servicing, and maintaining single-family and two-family residential fire alarm systems as defined by National Fire Protection Association Standard No. 72. The training curriculum for a residential fire alarm technician training course must include the following minimum instruction time for the following subjects:

1. (1) one hour of instruction on the Insurance Code Chapter 6002 and the Fire Alarm Rules;
2. (2) one hour of instruction pertaining to the equipment, system, and other hardware relating to household fire alarms;
3. (3) one hour of instruction on the National Electric Code, NFPA 70;

4. (4) four and one-half hours of total combined instruction on:

   1. (A) NFPA 72;
   2. (B) NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code; and
   3. (C) the International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings; and
5. (5) one-half hour of instruction on the monitoring of household fire alarm systems.

Source Note:The provisions of this §34.628 adopted to be effective July 5, 2011, 36 TexReg 4111.