Sec. 250.012.  RESIDENTIAL FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEMS.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by Subsection (c), a municipality, county, or emergency services district may not enact an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule requiring the installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a new or existing one- or two-family dwelling.
(b)  A municipality, county, or emergency services district may adopt an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule allowing a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system specialist or other contractor to offer, for a fee, the installation of a fire protection sprinkler system in a new one- or two-family dwelling.
(c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1)  a municipality that has enacted an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, or rule requiring the installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a new or existing one- or two-family dwelling on or before January 1, 2009; or
(2)  an emergency services district:
(A)  that before February 1, 2013, has adopted a fire code, fire code amendments, or other requirements in conflict with Subsection (a); and
(B)  whose territory is located:
(i)  in or adjacent to a general law municipality with a population of less than 4,000 that is served by a water control and improvement district governed by Chapter 51, Water Code; and
(ii)  in a county that has a population of more than 1.2 million and is adjacent to a county with a population of more than 600,000.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 315 (H.B. 738), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2022.
Amended by: 
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 644 (H.B. 4559), Sec. 152, eff. September 1, 2023.
Redesignated from Local Government Code, Section 250.011 by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 768 (H.B. 4595), Sec. 24.001(30), eff. September 1, 2023.