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Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 122.005. Powers Of Type A General-Law Municipality

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§ 122.005. POWERS OF TYPE A GENERAL-LAW 
MUNICIPALITY.  (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:
		(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; 
		(2)  establish, maintain, and regulate hospitals in the 
municipality or in any area within five miles of the municipal 
limits;  or
		(3)  abate any nuisance that is or may become injurious 
to the public health.
	(b)  The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality 
may adopt rules:
		(1)  necessary or expedient to promote health or 
suppress disease;  or      
		(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.
	(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.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.                    

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