Waco, TX Building Safety: Fire Sprinkler Requirements (2026)

Sec. 6-26 adopts the 2024 edition of the International Residential Code, including appendices BB, BD, BO, and NE, as one of the Minimum Building Standard Codes of the City of Waco. Sec. 6-29 then lists Waco's specific exceptions, amendments, and deletions to that code. 2 would otherwise require an automatic residential fire sprinkler system in new one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses; Waco's local amendment removes that mandate entirely, so builders and homeowners constructing a new single-family or two-family home in the city are not obligated to install sprinklers under the building code.

The same Sec. 1, requiring new residential units to be able to condition air at least 15 degrees below outside temperature, never above 85°F. Sec. 2 deletion in Sec. 6-29 applies specifically to the one- and two-family dwellings covered by the Residential Code, not to IBC-regulated buildings.