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What each trade needs before it can renew, what happens when a license lapses, and how to find the right record. Written from TDLR's own pages, with the source of every rule listed at the foot of each piece.
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Texas Boiler Inspection Fees and Late Fees (2026)
Certificates, inspections, permits and the daily late fee that started on 15 June 2026: every boiler fee, and what a late inspection really costs.
How Often Are Boilers Inspected in Texas? Intervals by Boiler Type
Every year, every two years or every three: the inspection interval for each kind of boiler, portable boilers, and how an interval can be extended.
New Boiler in Texas: The Installation Report and First Inspection
ASME stamp, National Board registration, a 30-day report and no firing before inspection. The steps for a new boiler, and what skipping one costs.
Temporary Boiler Operating Permit in Texas: When You Need One
The only lawful way to run a new boiler before its first inspection: $50, Part II of form BLR213N, and approval is not automatic.
Which Boilers Are Exempt in Texas? The Boiler Act Exemptions
Espresso machines, steam cookers, hobby boilers and heating boilers in homes of up to four families: what the Texas Boiler Act does not cover.
How to Check a Texas Boiler Certificate of Operation
The license search will never find a boiler. Where the certificate actually lives, what the TX number means, and what to do when the certificate never arrives.
Who Can Inspect a Boiler in Texas? AIAs, Authorized Inspectors and TDLR
Insured boilers go to the insurer's inspector, uninsured ones to the state. How to find out which applies to yours, with the numbers from the license file.
How to Look Up an Elevator Inspection in Texas
Annual inspections, a 30-day filing window and a certificate that must be on display. Where to find the record, and the one big city TDLR does not cover.
How to Check a Tow Company License in Texas (and What to Do If You Were Towed)
Tow companies and storage lots are not in the license file at all. Where to verify them, and the 14-day deadline every towed driver should know.
How to Search TDLR Penalties and Disciplinary Actions
An active license does not mean a clean record. How the administrative orders search works, and the window that hides older cases.
What happens when a Texas license expires
Late fees, the three-year wall, and why 206,186 licenses in the public file lapsed and were never renewed.
Every TDLR search, and which one you need
Licenses, boilers, elevators, tow companies and penalties live in different databases. This is the map.
Who licenses what in Texas
TDLR, the other state boards, and the trades with no state license at all.
Cosmetology license renewal
4 CE hours every two years, the 15-year reduction and what happens if it lapses.
Electrician license renewal
4 hours every year, who is exempt and the apprentice alternative.
A/C and refrigeration renewal
8 hours a year for contractors, including the Texas law hour. Technicians differ.
Barber license renewal
The four hours that many barbers did not need at their last renewal.
Boilers in Texas, start to finish
- How to Check a Texas Boiler Certificate of Operation
- Who Can Inspect a Boiler in Texas? AIAs, Authorized Inspectors and TDLR
- How Often Are Boilers Inspected in Texas? Intervals by Boiler Type
- Texas Boiler Inspection Fees and Late Fees (2026)
- New Boiler in Texas: The Installation Report and First Inspection
- Temporary Boiler Operating Permit in Texas: When You Need One
- Which Boilers Are Exempt in Texas? The Boiler Act Exemptions
The numbers behind all of it
Every guide uses the same source: the public TDLR license file. The statistics compiled from it, by trade, county and month of expiration, are published separately and free to reuse with attribution.