Tex. Health & Safety Code § 755.025 · Subchapter C. BOILER REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION
INSPECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive director shall require each boiler to be inspected internally and externally at the time of initial installation and at subsequent intervals as provided by this section. The executive director may provide that the inspection be performed by any inspector.
(b) Power boilers, unfired steam boilers, and steam collection or liberation drums of process steam generators must receive an annual certificate inspection and an annual external inspection.
(c) Steam heating boilers and hot water heating boilers must receive a certificate inspection biennially.
(d) Hot water supply boilers and potable water heaters must receive a certificate inspection triennially.
(e) The commission by rule shall establish the subsequent intervals and manner of inspection for a portable boiler.
(f) The executive director shall designate the manner of inspection for nuclear boilers, the form of the inspection report, and the information to be reported. The executive director and the owner of a nuclear boiler shall establish the intervals of inspection for the boiler.
(g) The executive director may authorize the inspection of a boiler at any reasonable time if the executive director determines that the boiler may be in an unsafe condition. The executive director shall notify the inspection agency that insures that boiler and request the authorized inspector employed by that agency to participate with the chief inspector or a deputy inspector in a joint inspection of the boiler not later than the 20th day after the date on which the executive director notifies the inspection agency. An additional charge may not be made for the joint inspection.
(h) Notwithstanding any other law, an e-mail address provided to the department relating to an inspection under this chapter is not confidential and is subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 352, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 816, Sec. 26.010, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 284 (H.B. 3257), Sec. 3, eff. May 29, 2017.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1144 (H.B. 2847), Sec. 6.001, eff. September 1, 2019.
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