The standards the rules adopt, and how adoption works

Texas does not write its own technical standard. It adopts other people’s, at named editions, subject to its own law — and where that leaves a licensee is a question about mechanics rather than about engineering.

In this chapter

What adoption by reference is, and which editions Texas has actually adopted
When Texas law overrides an adopted standard, and the two narrow allowances to work to a different edition
What a local jurisdiction may add, and how a repair is told apart from a modification