Tex. Occ. Code § 1301.057 · Subchapter B. EXEMPTIONS
SELF-HELP PROJECT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person is not required to be licensed under this chapter to perform plumbing, limited to the provision of a residential potable water supply or residential sanitary sewer connection, for a project that:
(1) is in a county a part of which is within 50 miles of an international border; and
(2) is performed by an organization that:
(A) is certified by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to provide self-help project assistance; and
(B) provides the board with the following information before the 30th day before the date the project begins:
(i) the exact location of the project;
(ii) the intended duration of the project; and
(iii) other information the board requires.
(b) The board may require under Subsection (a)(2)(B)(iii) that the organization provide a post-construction report signed by a plumbing inspector stating that the plumbing is safe.
(c) The board may provide training to an organization that provides self-help project assistance under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 3, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 986 (S.B. 766), Sec. 47, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1301.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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