{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-122.005","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 122.005","heading":"POWERS OF TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.","body":"(a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may take any action necessary or expedient to promote health or suppress disease, including actions to:\n(1) prevent the introduction of a communicable disease into the municipality, including stopping, detaining, and examining a person coming from a place that is infected or believed to be infected with a communicable disease;\n(2) establish, maintain, and regulate hospitals in the municipality or in any area within five miles of the municipal limits; or\n(3) abate any nuisance that is or may become injurious to the public health.\n(b) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may adopt rules:\n(1) necessary or expedient to promote health or suppress disease; or\n(2) to prevent the introduction of a communicable disease into the municipality, including quarantine rules, and may enforce those rules in the municipality and in any area within 10 miles of the municipality.\n(c) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may fine a person who fails or refuses to observe the orders and rules of the health authority.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE F. LOCAL REGULATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH","CHAPTER 122. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.122.htm#122.005","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"0a989c291b5b555c4dc291c77255a76287bc95cecac1a0ba11d4f9c08f51c4d9","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-122.004","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-122.006"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}