Texarkana, TX Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)
Swimming pool permit rules in Texarkana, TX, also covering above-ground pools, in-ground pools, and spa installations, set fencing, barrier, alarm, and inspection requirements.
Key Facts
- Zoning permit needed
- None: permitted by right
- Health-dept pool permit
- Exempt for private residential pools
- Specific-use permit
- Not required
- Fencing
- Required per city regulations
- Max zoning fine
- $2,000 per day
Summary
Texarkana allows above-ground and portable pools by right in every zoning district as an accessory use, exempts them from the city's health-department pool permit, but still requires them to be fenced under the general fence code.
Swimming pool (private) means a swimming pool constructed for the exclusive use of the residents of a one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwellings and located and fenced in accordance with the regulations of the city. A private swimming pool shall not be operated as a business nor maintained in a manner to be hazardous or obnoxious to adjacent property owners.
Tattoo studio means an establishment or facility in which the practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human body by scarring or inserting a pigment under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other related equipment, including the application of permanent cosmetics, is performed.
Telecommunications tower ("tower") means a facility, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers, but not including stealth communication towers, designed to support one or more antennas and to contain ancillary facilities designed and used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, and relaying voice, data, and other similar signals to or from various wireless communication devices; provided, however, that a telecommunication tower shall not be defined to include the following: "Radio, television, or microwave towers"; amateur radio transmission facilities not used for commercial purposes; or facilities used exclusively for the transmission of television and radio signals.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27).
Full Breakdown
Texarkana's schedule of use (Sec. 140-81) lists a private swimming pool as an accessory use permitted by right in every zoning district, with no specific-use permit required. The zoning definition at Sec. 140-23 requires a private pool be "located and fenced in accordance with the regulations of the city" and bars operating it as a business or keeping it hazardous to neighbors. Article II of Chapter 24 sets up a separate health-department operating permit for swimming pools, but Sec. 24-47 expressly states that article "shall not apply to private residential pools, spas or hot tubs", so a homeowner's above-ground pool needs no annual health permit.
Violations & Fines
Operating a pool as a business or letting it become hazardous to neighbors violates Sec. 140-23; zoning violations carry fines up to $2,000 per day under Sec. 1-5(b)(2).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Does an above-ground pool have to be fenced?
Sources & Official References
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