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Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 122.006. Powers Of Home-Rule Municipalities

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§ 122.006. POWERS OF HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITIES.  A 
home-rule municipality may:
		(1)  adopt rules to protect the health of persons in the 
municipality, including quarantine rules to protect the residents 
against communicable disease;  and
		(2)  provide for the establishment of quarantine 
stations, emergency hospitals, and other hospitals.

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

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