Tex. Health & Safety Code § 122.006 · Chapter 122. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH

POWERS OF HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITIES.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

A home-rule municipality may:

(1) adopt rules to protect the health of persons in the municipality, including quarantine rules to protect the residents against communicable disease; and

(2) provide for the establishment of quarantine stations, emergency hospitals, and other hospitals.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.

Source of truth

Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.122.htm
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