Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 229.002 · Subchapter A. REGULATION OF FIREARMS, KNIVES, AND EXPLOSIVES
REGULATION OF DISCHARGE OF WEAPON.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A municipality may not apply a regulation relating to the discharge of firearms or other weapons in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality or in an area annexed by the municipality after September 1, 1981, if the firearm or other weapon is:
(1) a shotgun, air rifle or pistol, BB gun, or bow and arrow discharged:
(A) on a tract of land of 10 acres or more and more than 150 feet from a residence or occupied building located on another property; and
(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract; or
(2) a center fire or rim fire rifle or pistol of any caliber discharged:
(A) on a tract of land of 50 acres or more and more than 300 feet from a residence or occupied building located on another property; and
(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 18 (S.B. 734), Sec. 4, eff. May 3, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.229.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
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 229.002. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 43.002CONTINUATION OF LAND USE.Printed as Section 229.002
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 229.003REGULATION OF DISCHARGE OF WEAPON BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.Printed as Section 229.002
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 229.004REGULATION OF DISCHARGE OF WEAPON BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.Printed as Section 229.002
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