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Texas Local Government Code - LOC GOV'T § 250.012. Residential Fire Protection Sprinkler Systems

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by Subsection (c), a municipality, county, or emergency services district may not enact an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule requiring the installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a new or existing one- or two-family dwelling.

(b) A municipality, county, or emergency services district may adopt an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule allowing a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system specialist or other contractor to offer, for a fee, the installation of a fire protection sprinkler system in a new one- or two-family dwelling.

(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to:

(1) a municipality that has enacted an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule requiring the installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a new or existing one- or two-family dwelling on or before January 1, 2009;  or

(2) an emergency services district:

(A) that before February 1, 2013, has adopted a fire code, fire code amendments, or other requirements in conflict with Subsection (a);  and

(B) whose territory is located:

(i) in or adjacent to a general law municipality with a population of less than 4,000 that is served by a water control and improvement district governed by Chapter 51, Water Code;  and

(ii) in a county that has a population of more than one million and is adjacent to a county with a population of more than 420,000.

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