Every class needs evidence that you can do the work, and the evidence the rule accepts is different for each one. 28 TAC § 34.613 sets them out class by class. For a FIRE ALARM TECHNICIAN license, an applicant must either furnish notification from the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies or the Electronic Security Association confirming successful completion of the test requirements in work elements pertaining to fire alarm systems, as determined by the state fire marshal — or successfully complete a technical qualifying test designated by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. A RESIDENTIAL FIRE ALARM SUPERINTENDENT faces the same two-route choice in the same words.

The other four diverge. An applicant for a FIRE ALARM MONITORING TECHNICIAN license must complete a technical qualifying test designated by the office, or provide evidence of current registration in Texas as a registered engineer. An applicant for a RESIDENTIAL FIRE ALARM SUPERINTENDENT SINGLE STATION license must complete the technical qualifying test — that route only. An applicant for a FIRE ALARM PLANNING SUPERINTENDENT license must supply one of two documents as evidence of technical qualification: proof of registration in Texas as a professional engineer, or a copy of a NICET or ESA notification letter confirming successful completion of the test requirements for certification AT LEVEL III for fire alarm systems. And an applicant for a RESIDENTIAL FIRE ALARM TECHNICIAN license must provide evidence of completing the required residential fire alarm technician training course from a training school approved by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Two features of that map are worth holding. The state has named its outside gatekeepers: 28 TAC § 34.609 approves the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies and the Electronic Security Association as testing standards organizations for testing license applicants, and those two are the list. And the planning superintendent is the only class whose certification route carries a LEVEL — Level III — while the classes below it accept the same organizations’ notifications without one. Nothing here is a substitute for the qualifying test in § 5.4; the technical qualification and the test are separate requirements, and every applicant for every class needs both.