Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 757 requires pool yards at apartment complexes and property-owners-association pools to be enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches high. Single-family home pool barriers are enforced through each city's adopted residential building code.
State law (H&S Ch. 757) governs pool yards owned or maintained by the owner of a multiunit rental complex or by a property owners association: the yard must be completely enclosed and the enclosure must be at least 48 inches high measured from the ground on the side away from the pool. Bell County itself cannot impose fence or zoning rules in unincorporated areas. For an ordinary single-family home pool, the 48-inch barrier requirement comes from the International Residential Code adopted and enforced by Killeen, Temple, Belton and Harker Heights.
A person who violates the pool-yard enclosure requirements commits an offense; cities also enforce barrier compliance through building inspections and municipal-court fines.
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