Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 215.024 · Subchapter B. REGULATION BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
TANNERIES; STABLES; SLAUGHTERHOUSES; OTHER BUSINESSES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) As necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the residents of the municipality, the governing body of the municipality may compel the owner or occupant to clean, abate, or remove:
(1) a grocery;
(2) a soap, tallow, or chandler establishment;
(3) a blacksmith shop;
(4) a tannery;
(5) a stable;
(6) a slaughterhouse;
(7) a sewer;
(8) a privy;
(9) a hide house; or
(10) any other unwholesome or nauseous house or place.
(b) The governing body may direct the location of:
(1) businesses;
(2) tanneries;
(3) blacksmith shops;
(4) foundries;
(5) livery stables; and
(6) manufacturing establishments.
(c) Within the limits of a municipality, the governing body may restrain, abate, prohibit, direct the location of, or regulate the management or construction of:
(1) slaughtering establishments;
(2) hide houses;
(3) establishments for making soap;
(4) establishments for steaming or rendering lard, tallow, offal, or any other substances that may be rendered; and
(5) any other establishments or places at which any nauseous, offensive, or unwholesome business may be conducted.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.215.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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