Conroe, TX Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)
Swimming pool permit rules in Conroe, TX, also covering above-ground pools, in-ground pools, and spa installations, set fencing, barrier, alarm, and inspection requirements.
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- 1999 Standard Swimming Pool Code
- Permit type
- Building permit, Appendix A fee
- Grandfather date
- Pools before June 8, 1989 exempt
- Unpermitted work
- $2,000 investigation fee
- Fencing rule
- Separate: § 14-506 and state law
Summary
Conroe Code of Ordinances § 14-341 adopts the 1999 Standard Swimming Pool Code to govern residential and public pool construction, including its own fees, permits, and penalties. Section 14-342 replaces the code's fee table with the city's Appendix A schedule, and pools built before June 8, 1989 are grandfathered out of the requirements entirely.
The city hereby adopts the Standard Swimming Pool Code 1999 edition, for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the construction of swimming pools, including fees, permits and penalties, save and except such portions as are deleted, modified or amended in this article and such portions as are in conflict with any provisions of the City Code....Section 105.6, Schedule of fees, is amended to read as follows: For each private or public swimming pool, there shall be a building permit fee as indicated in the schedule set out in appendix A of the Code of Ordinances....Any swimming pool shall be exempt from the requirements of the Swimming Pool Code, provided that such swimming pool was constructed prior to June 8, 1989.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 85).
Full Breakdown
Section 14-341 adopts "the Standard Swimming Pool Code 1999 edition, for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the construction of swimming pools, including fees, permits and penalties," except where the city has deleted, modified, or amended a portion, or where a provision conflicts with the rest of the Code of Ordinances; a copy is kept on file with the city secretary. 6 schedule of fees so that every private or public pool needs a building permit with the fee set in Appendix A of the Code of Ordinances, and any other piping, fixtures, and equipment installed with the pool must separately comply with, and pay fees under, the city's other codes.
Section 14-343 exempts any pool built before June 8, 1989 from the Standard Swimming Pool Code's requirements entirely, so older backyard pools are not retroactively required to meet current construction standards. 004, and pools in the city must also satisfy the fence-enclosure article of the accessory-structures chapter, Code of Ordinances § 14-506, which applies the Standard Swimming Pool Code's enclosure rules to fences around spas and pools.
Violations & Fines
The adopted 1999 Standard Swimming Pool Code carries its own construction penalties, and because § 14-342 treats a pool permit as a building permit, starting pool construction before the permit issues exposes the owner to the city's general unpermitted-work investigation fee of $2,000.00 under § 14-38(e), on top of the pool permit fee itself. No inspection is scheduled until the Appendix A fee-schedule requirements are satisfied and the permit is on file.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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