Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 53.005 · Chapter 53. CODE OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES
EFFECT OF CODIFICATION.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipal code of ordinances has the force and effect of an ordinance regularly adopted in accordance with law.
(b) The record of the code in the municipality's ordinance records is a record of the codified ordinances and establishes the content of those ordinances.
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
- Text hash
- sha256 993c5aa8858e956bda0ec77958a3e975c6c2f96d6f7e1f5ef0da9362641295b1
- 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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