Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.212 · Subchapter G. BUILDING AND REHABILITATION CODES
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the International Residential Code, as it existed on May 1, 2012, is adopted as a municipal residential building code in this state.
(b) The International Residential Code applies to all construction, alteration, remodeling, enlargement, and repair of residential structures in a municipality.
(c) Subject to Subsection (e), a municipality may establish procedures:
(1) to adopt local amendments to the International Residential Code that may add, modify, or remove requirements set by the code; and
(2) for the administration and enforcement of the International Residential Code.
(d) A municipality may review and consider amendments made by the International Code Council to the International Residential Code after May 1, 2012.
(e) A municipality may not adopt a local amendment under Subsection (c) unless the municipality:
(1) holds a public hearing on the local amendment before adopting the local amendment; and
(2) adopts the local amendment by ordinance.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 120, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 315 (H.B. 738), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.214.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.212. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.215ADOPTION OF REHABILITATION CODES OR PROVISIONS.Printed as Section 214.212
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.217NOTICE REGARDING MODEL CODE ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.Printed as Section 214.212(e) or 214.216(f)
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 247.0025THIRD-PARTY REVIEW OR INSPECTION FOR HOME BACKUP POWER INSTALLATIONS.Printed as Section 214.212
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