Texas Health And Safety Code Title 9, Chapter 757 - Pool Yard Enclosures

• Texas Section 757.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Self-closing and self-latching device" means a device that causes a gate to automatically close without human or electrical power after it...
• Texas Section 757.002 - Application
  This chapter applies only to: (1) a pool owned, controlled, or maintained by the owner of a multiunit rental complex or by a property owners...
• Texas Section 757.003 - Enclosure For Pool Yard
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 757.005, the owner of a multiunit rental complex with a pool or a property owners association that owns,...
• Texas Section 757.004 - Gates
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 757.005, a gate in a fence or wall enclosing a pool yard as required by Section 757.003 must:...
• Texas Section 757.005 - Existing Pool Yard Enclosures
  (a) If a pool yard enclosure is constructed or modified before January 1, 1994, and no municipal ordinance containing standards for pool yard enclosures were...
• Texas Section 757.006 - Door
  (a) A door, sliding glass door, or French door may not open directly into a pool yard if the date of electrical service for initial...
• Texas Section 757.007 - Window And Window Screens
  A wall of a building constructed before January 1, 1994, may not be used as part of a pool yard enclosure unless each window in...
• Texas Section 757.008 - Building In Pool Yard
  Each door, sliding glass door, window, and window screen of each dwelling unit in a residential building located in the enclosed pool yard must comply...
• Texas Section 757.009 - Inspection, Repair, And Maintenance
  (a) An owner of a multiunit rental complex or a rental dwelling in a condominium, cooperative, or town home project with a pool or a...
• Texas Section 757.010 - Compliance With Chapter
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Section 757.011, a person who constructs or modifies a pool yard enclosure to conform with this chapter...
• Texas Section 757.011 - Rulemaking Authority
  The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission may adopt rules requiring standards for design and construction of pool yard enclosures that exceed...
• Texas Section 757.012 - Enforcement
  (a) A tenant of an owner of a multiunit rental complex, a member of a property owners association, a governmental entity, or any other person...
• Texas Section 757.013 - Tenant's Request For Repairs
  A tenant in a multiunit rental complex with a pool may verbally request repair of a keyed dead bolt, keyless bolting device, sliding door latch,...
• Texas Section 757.014 - Application To Other Bodies Of Water And Related Facilities
  The owner of a multiunit rental complex or a property owners association is not required to enclose a body of water or construct barriers between...
• Texas Section 757.015 - Effect On Other Laws
  (a) The duties established by this chapter for an owner of a multiunit dwelling project, an owner of a dwelling in a condominium, cooperative, or...
• Texas Section 757.016 - Nonexclusive Remedies
  The remedies contained in this chapter are not exclusive and are not intended to affect existing remedies allowed by law or other procedure. Added by...
• Texas Section 757.017 - Interpretation And Application
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to promote its underlying purpose which is to prevent swimming pool deaths and injuries in this...

Last modified: September 28, 2016