37 Tex. Admin. Code § 423.7 - Minimum Standards for Advanced Structure Fire Protection Personnel Certification
(a) Applicants
for Advanced Structure Fire Protection Personnel certification must complete
the following requirements:
(1) hold as a
prerequisite an Intermediate Structure Fire Protection Personnel certification
as defined in §
423.5 of this title (relating to
Minimum Standards for Intermediate Structure Fire Protection Personnel
Certification); and
(2) acquire a
minimum of eight years of fire protection experience and complete the training
listed in one of the following options:
(A)
Option 1--Successfully complete six semester hours of fire science or fire
technology from an approved Fire Protection Degree Program and submit
documentation as required by the commission that the courses comply with
subsections (b) and (c) of this section; or
(B) Option 2--Completion of coursework from
either the A-List or the B-List courses. Acceptable combinations of courses are
as follows: two A-List courses; or eight B-List courses; or one A-List course
and four B-List courses. (See the exception outlined in subsection (c) of this
section); or
(C) Option
3--Completion of coursework from either the A-List or the B-List courses in
combination with college courses in fire science or fire protection. Acceptable
combinations of courses are three semester hours meeting the requirements of
Option 1 with either one A-List course or four B-List courses (See the
exception outlined in subsection (c) of this
section).
(b)
Non-traditional credit awarded at the college level, such as credit for
experience or credit by examination obtained from attending any school in the
commission's Certification Curriculum Manual or for experience in the fire
service, may not be counted toward this level of certification.
(c) The training required in this section
must be in addition to any training used to qualify for any lower level of
Structure Fire Protection Personnel certification. Repeating a course or a
course of similar content cannot be used towards this level of
certification.
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