Texas Local Government Code Title 2, Chapter 54 - Enforcement Of Municipal Ordinances

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 54.001 - General Enforcement Authority Of Municipalities; Penalty
  (a) The governing body of a municipality may enforce each rule, ordinance, or police regulation of the municipality and may punish a violation of a...
• Texas Section 54.002 - Imposition Of Fine In Type B General-law Municipality
  (a) The governing body of a Type B general-law municipality may prescribe the fine for the violation of a municipal bylaw or ordinance. (b) If...
• Texas Section 54.003 - Remission Of Fine By Type A General-law Municipality
  On a two-thirds vote of the members present, the governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may remit a fine or a penalty, or...
• Texas Section 54.004 - Preservation Of Health, Property, Good Government, And Order In Home-rule Municipality
  A home-rule municipality may enforce ordinances necessary to protect health, life, and property and to preserve the good government, order, and security of the municipality...
• Texas Section 54.005 - Notices To Certain Property Owners
  (a) A governmental entity that is required by statute, rule, regulation, or ordinance to send a notice to an owner of real property for the...

SUBCHAPTER B MUNICIPAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ORDINANCES

• Texas Section 54.006 - Nonseverability Of Certain Consolidated Offenses
  Section 3.04(a), Penal Code, does not apply to two or more offenses consolidated or joined for trial under Section 3.02, Penal Code, if each of...
• Texas Section 54.012 - Civil Action
  A municipality may bring a civil action for the enforcement of an ordinance: (1) for the preservation of public safety, relating to the materials or...
• Texas Section 54.013 - Jurisdiction; Venue
  Jurisdiction and venue of an action under this subchapter are in the district court or the county court at law of the county in which...
• Texas Section 54.014 - Preferential Setting
  If the municipality submits to the court a verified motion that includes facts that demonstrate that a delay will unreasonably endanger persons or property, the...
• Texas Section 54.015 - Procedure
  (a) The only allegations required to be pleaded in an action brought under this subchapter are: (1) the identification of the real property involved in...
• Texas Section 54.016 - Injunction
  (a) On a showing of substantial danger of injury or an adverse health impact to any person or to the property of any person other...
• Texas Section 54.017 - Civil Penalty
  (a) In a suit against the owner or the owner's representative with control over the premises, the municipality may recover a civil penalty if it...
• Texas Section 54.018 - Action For Repair Or Demolition Of Structure
  (a) The municipality may bring an action to compel the repair or demolition of a structure or to obtain approval to remove the structure and...
• Texas Section 54.019 - Imprisonment; Contempt
  (a) A person is not subject to personal attachment or imprisonment for the failure to pay a civil penalty assessed under this subchapter. (b) This...

SUBCHAPTER C QUASI-JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY ORDINANCES

• Texas Section 54.020 - Abatement Of Floodplain Violation In Municipalities; Lien
  (a) In addition to any necessary and reasonable actions authorized by law, a municipality may abate a violation of a floodplain management ordinance by causing...
• Texas Section 54.031 - Subchapter Applicable To Certain Municipalities
  This subchapter applies to a municipality that by ordinance implements the subchapter. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1113, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28,...
• Texas Section 54.032 - Ordinances Subject To Quasi-judicial Enforcement
  This subchapter applies only to ordinances: (1) for the preservation of public safety, relating to the materials or methods used to construct a building or...
• Texas Section 54.033 - Building And Standards Commission
  (a) The governing body of the municipality may provide for the appointment of a building and standards commission to hear and determine cases concerning alleged...
• Texas Section 54.034 - Proceedings Of Commission Panels
  (a) All cases to be heard by the commission may be heard by any panel of the commission. A majority of the members of a...
• Texas Section 54.035 - Notice
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (a-1) and (a-2), notice of all proceedings before the commission panels must be given: (1) by personal delivery, by...
• Texas Section 54.036 - Functions
  A commission panel may: (1) order the repair, within a fixed period, of buildings found to be in violation of an ordinance; (2) declare a...
• Texas Section 54.037 - Civil Penalty
  (a) A determination made under Section 54.036(5) is final and binding and constitutes prima facie evidence of the penalty in any court of competent jurisdiction...
• Texas Section 54.038 - Vote
  A majority vote of the members voting on a matter is necessary to take any action under this subchapter and any ordinance adopted by the...
• Texas Section 54.039 - Judicial Review
  (a) Any owner, lienholder, or mortgagee of record jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of a commission panel may present a petition to a...
• Texas Section 54.040 - Lien; Abstract
  (a) An order issued under Section 54.036, including any civil penalties assessed under Section 54.036(5), is enforceable in the same manner as provided in Sections...
• Texas Section 54.041 - Commission Panel Decision Final
  If no appeals are taken from the decision of the commission panel within the required period, the decision of the commission panel is, in all...
• Texas Section 54.042 - Municipal Court Proceeding Not Affected
  This subchapter does not affect the ability of a municipality to proceed under the jurisdiction of the municipal court. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg.,...
• Texas Section 54.043 - Alternative Adjudication Processes
  A municipality by ordinance may adopt a civil adjudication process, as an alternative to the enforcement process prescribed by the other provisions of this subchapter,...
• Texas Section 54.044 - Alternative Procedure For Administrative Hearing
  (a) As an alternative to the enforcement processes described by this subchapter, a municipality by ordinance may adopt a procedure for an administrative adjudication hearing...

Last modified: September 28, 2016