Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 53.001 · Chapter 53. CODE OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES
ADOPTION OF CODE.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality may adopt by ordinance a codification of its civil and criminal ordinances, together with appropriate penalties for the violation of the ordinances.
(b) On the adoption of the code, the secretary of the municipality shall record the code in the municipality's ordinance records.
(c) The code is effective on its adoption.
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.53.htm
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- sha256 c8dbcb37c462f82324a69fef44528111f0f11ae8c0ea071139f0e8ce5e303c74
- 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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