Section 214.215 - Adoption of Rehabilitation Codes or Provisions(a) In this section, "rehabilitation" means the alteration, remodeling, enlargement, or repair of an existing structure.(b) A municipality that adopts a building code, other than the International Residential Code adopted under Section 214.212, shall adopt one of the following:(1) prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation as part of the municipality's building code; or(2) the rehabilitation code that accompanies the building code adopted by the municipality.(c) The rehabilitation code or prescriptive provisions do not apply to the rehabilitation of a structure to which the International Residential Code applies or to the construction of a new structure.(d) A municipality may: (1) adopt the rehabilitation code or prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation recommended by the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners; or(2) amend its rehabilitation code or prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation.(e) A municipality shall enforce the prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation or the rehabilitation code in a manner consistent with the enforcement of the municipality's building code.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 214.215
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 331, Sec. 6.02, eff. 9/1/2003.