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2025 Texas Statutes
Occupations Code
Title 13 - Sports, Amusements, and Entertainment
Subtitle D - Other Amusements and Entertainment
Chapter 2154 - Regulation of Fireworks and Fireworks Displays
Subchapter D. Types of Licenses
Section 2154.155. Pyrotechnic Special Effects Operator's License

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TX Occ Code § 2154.155 (2025)
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Sec. 2154.155. PYROTECHNIC SPECIAL EFFECTS OPERATOR'S LICENSE. (a) A person must be a licensed pyrotechnic special effects operator if the person assembles, conducts, and supervises proximate displays using Fireworks 1.3G or Fireworks 1.4G as defined in NFPA 1126 Standard of the Use of Pyrotechnics Before a Proximate Audience.

(b) The commissioner shall set and collect an annual pyrotechnic special effects operator's license fee in an amount not to exceed $100.

(c) To qualify for a pyrotechnic special effects operator's license, a person must take and pass an examination, if required, conducted by the commissioner through the state fire marshal's office.

(d) Unless the examination is administered by a testing service, a person shall be charged a nonrefundable initial examination fee in an amount not to exceed $50. Unless the reexamination is administered by a testing service, a person shall be charged a nonrefundable fee in an amount not to exceed $20 for each reexamination.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1014, Sec. 10, eff. June 20, 2003.

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