Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.216 · Subchapter G. BUILDING AND REHABILITATION CODES
INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the International Building Code, as it existed on May 1, 2012, is adopted as a municipal commercial building code in this state.
(b) The International Building Code applies to all commercial buildings in a municipality and to any alteration, remodeling, enlargement, or repair of those commercial buildings.
(c) Subject to Subsection (f), a municipality may establish procedures:
(1) to adopt local amendments to the International Building Code that may add, modify, or remove requirements set by the code; and
(2) for the administration and enforcement of the International Building Code.
(d) A municipality may review and consider amendments made by the International Code Council to the International Building Code after May 1, 2012.
(e) A municipality that has adopted a more stringent commercial building code than a commercial building code required by this section is not required to repeal that code and may adopt future editions of that code.
(f) 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 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 389 (S.B. 1458), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2006.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 315 (H.B. 738), Sec. 2, eff. January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
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- 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 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.216. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Local Government Code
- 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 § 214.219MINIMUM HABITABILITY STANDARDS FOR MULTI-FAMILY RENTAL BUILDINGS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.Printed as Section 214.216
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.301PERMITTED REGULATION OF APARTMENT BUILDING STAIRWAY REQUIREMENTS.Printed as Section 214.216 | Section 214.216(c)
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 218.203CERTAIN REGULATIONS PROHIBITED.Printed as Section 214.216
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