Tex. Health & Safety Code § 342.001 · Subchapter A. MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF SANITATION
MUNICIPAL POWER CONCERNING STAGNANT WATER AND OTHER UNSANITARY CONDITIONS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of a municipality may require the filling, draining, and regulating of any place in the municipality that is unwholesome, contains stagnant water, or is in any other condition that may produce disease.
(b) The governing body of a municipality may require the inspection of all premises.
(c) The governing body of a municipality may impose fines on the owner of premises on which stagnant water is found.
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.342.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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