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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Property Code § 92.251: DEFINITIONS.

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  1. PROPERTY CODE
  2. TITLE 8. LANDLORD AND TENANT
  3. CHAPTER 92. RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES
  4. SUBCHAPTER F. SMOKE ALARMS AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS

In this subchapter:

(1) "Bedroom" means a room designed with the intent that it be used for sleeping purposes.

(2) "Dwelling unit" means a home, mobile home, duplex unit, apartment unit, condominium unit, or any dwelling unit in a multiunit residential structure. It also means a "dwelling" as defined by Section 92.001.

(3) "Smoke alarm" means a device designed to detect and to alert occupants of a dwelling unit to the visible and invisible products of combustion by means of an audible alarm.

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3649, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 257 (H.B. 1168), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2011.

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