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Tex. Local Government Code § 217.042: NUISANCE.
Where this section sits in the code
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 7. REGULATION OF LAND USE, STRUCTURES, BUSINESSES, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
- SUBTITLE A. MUNICIPAL REGULATORY AUTHORITY
- CHAPTER 217. MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF NUISANCES AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT
- SUBCHAPTER C. REGULATION BY HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY
(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.
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.
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