Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 757 requires pool yards to be enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches high measured from the outside. Single-family pools inside a city also follow the city's adopted building code barrier rules.
Chapter 757 directly mandates enclosures for pools at multiunit rental complexes and property owners' associations, but its 48-inch barrier standard is the statewide benchmark cities apply through adopted building codes for private pools. Openings must not let a four-inch sphere pass beneath, chain-link is barred for enclosures built after January 1, 1994, and diagonal members below 49 inches are prohibited. Brazoria County cannot set its own fence height in unincorporated areas; the state statute plus any city code governs. Cities such as Pearland enforce barrier, gate, and self-latching requirements at final inspection.
A pool operator who fails to maintain a required enclosure commits an offense; enforcement runs through the state/local health authority for public pools and city code enforcement for private pools inside cities.
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