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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 766.001: DEFINITIONS.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 9. SAFETY
- SUBTITLE A. PUBLIC SAFETY
- CHAPTER 766. FIRE SAFETY IN RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS
- SUBCHAPTER A. SMOKE DETECTORS AND FIRE SAFETY INFORMATION
In this chapter:
(1) "Carbon monoxide alarm" means a device that detects and sounds an alarm to indicate the presence of a harmful level of carbon monoxide gas.
(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Insurance.
(3) "Fossil fuel" includes coal, kerosene, oil, wood, fuel gases, and other petroleum or hydrocarbon products.
(4) "One-family or two-family dwelling" means a structure that has one or two residential units that are occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by individuals.
(5) "Smoke detector" means a device or a listed component of a system that detects and sounds an alarm to indicate the presence of visible or invisible products of combustion in the air.
(6) "Smoke detector for hearing-impaired persons" has the meaning assigned by Section 792.001.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1051 (H.B. 2118), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2007.
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