Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 217.042 · Subchapter C. REGULATION BY HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY
NUISANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the municipality may define and prohibit any nuisance within the limits of the municipality and within 5,000 feet outside the limits.
(b) The municipality may enforce all ordinances necessary to prevent and summarily abate and remove a nuisance.
(c) The municipality may not define and prohibit as a nuisance the sale of fireworks or similar materials outside the limits of the municipality.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1212 (S.B. 1593), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.217.htm
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- sha256 8528b4d6bfa0536cb70cac13eb476b7148e20c1839432921605b3b6062849d98
- Composed by
- 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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