Fire Protection Equipment Personnel Act Article 21

For a given municipality or county (city) with at least nine Fire Protection Equipment Engineers or Fire Protection Equipment Technicians registered for a license to practice, a Fire Protection Equipment Engineers’ Association or a Fire Protection Equipment Technicians’ Association shall be established in the municipality or county (city) at the local level.For those municipalities or counties (cities) where either one of the associations fails to be established, or with less than nine fire protection equipment personnel, fire protection equipment personnel may join either one of the Fire Protection Equipment Engineers’ Associations/ Fire Protection Equipment Technicians’ Associations in a neighboring municipality or county (city).A National Association of Fire Protection Equipment Engineers or a National Association of Fire Protection Equipment Technicians shall be organized by at least seven Fire Protection Equipment Engineers’ Associations or seven Fire Protection Equipment Technicians’ Associations, respectively, from the municipal or county (city) level.The requirements for organizing the various associations in the preceding paragraphs shall apply unless otherwise specially approved by the central competent authority.