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TITLE 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 746 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-CARE CENTERS
SUBCHAPTER W - FIRE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PRACTICES
SECTION/RULE §746.5311 - Must my child-care center have a smoke-detection system?
Chapter Review Date 04/04/2024

(a) Your child-care center must have a working smoke-detection system. This may be an electronic alarm and smoke-detection system, or individual electric or battery-operated smoke detectors located in each room used by children, or both.(b) If your center is located in a public school operated by the local independent school district, the smoke detection system utilized by the school complies with this standard.

Source Note: The provisions of this §746.5311 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; amended to be effective December 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 10238; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909.

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