SUBCHAPTER A DANGEROUS STRUCTURES
- Texas Section 214.001 - Authority Regarding Substandard Building
(a) A municipality may, by ordinance, require the vacation, relocation of occupants, securing, repair, removal, or demolition of a building that is: (1) dilapidated, substandard,...
- Texas Section 214.0011 - Additional Authority To Secure Substandard Building
(a) A municipality by ordinance may establish minimum standards for the use and occupancy of buildings in the municipality regardless of the date of their...
- Texas Section 214.00111 - Additional Authority To Preserve Substandard Building As Historic Property
(a) This section applies only to a municipality that is designated as a certified local government by the state historic preservation officer as provided by...
- Texas Section 214.0012 - Judicial Review
(a) Any owner, lienholder, or mortgagee of record of property jointly or severally aggrieved by an order of a municipality issued under Section 214.001 may...
- Texas Section 214.0015 - Additional Authority Regarding Substandard Building
(a) This section applies only to a municipality that has adopted an ordinance under Section 214.001. (b) In addition to the authority granted to the...
- Texas Section 214.002 - Requiring Repair, Removal, Or Demolition Of Building Or Other Structure
(a) If the governing body of a municipality finds that a building, bulkhead or other method of shoreline protection, fence, shed, awning, or other structure,...
- Texas Section 214.003 - Receiver
(a) A home-rule municipality may bring an action in district court against an owner of property that is not in substantial compliance with: (1) the...
- Texas Section 214.0031 - Additional Authority To Appoint Receiver For Hazardous Properties
(a) In this section: (1) "Eligible nonprofit housing organization" means a nonprofit housing organization that is certified by a home-rule municipality to bring an action...
- Texas Section 214.004 - Seizure And Sale Of Property To Recover Expenses
A Type A general-law municipality or home-rule municipality may foreclose a lien on property under this subchapter: (1) in a proceeding relating to the property...
SUBCHAPTER B PLUMBING AND SEWERS
- Texas Section 214.005 - Property Bid Off To Municipality
A municipality may adopt an ordinance under Section 214.001(a) that applies to property that has been bid off to the municipality under Section 34.01(j), Tax...
- Texas Section 214.011 - Plumbing Inspector
(a) If a municipality does not have a special charter that provides for an inspector of plumbing, the governing body of the municipality may appoint...
- Texas Section 214.012 - Sewers And Plumbing
A municipality that has underground sewers or cesspools shall regulate by ordinance: (1) the tapping of the sewers and cesspools; and (2) house draining and...
- Texas Section 214.013 - Sewer Connections
(a) A municipality may: (1) provide for a sanitary sewer system; and (2) require property owners to connect to the sewer system. (b) If an...
- Texas Section 214.014 - Drains, Sinks, And Privies
(a) The governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, order the owner of a private drain, sink, or privy...
SUBCHAPTER C SWIMMING POOL ENCLOSURES
- Texas Section 214.015 - Seizure And Sale Of Property To Recover Expenses
A home-rule municipality or Type A general-law municipality may foreclose a lien on property under this subchapter in a proceeding relating to the property brought...
- Texas Section 214.101 - Authority Regarding Swimming Pool Enclosures
(a) A municipality may by ordinance establish minimum standards for swimming pool fences and enclosures and may adopt other ordinances as necessary to carry out...
SUBCHAPTER D BUILDING LINES
- Texas Section 214.102 - Seizure And Sale Of Property To Recover Expenses
A municipality may foreclose a lien on property under this subchapter in a proceeding relating to the property brought under Subchapter E, Chapter 33, Tax...
- Texas Section 214.131 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Street" means a public highway, boulevard, parkway, square, or street, or a part or side of any of these. (2) "Structure"...
- Texas Section 214.132 - Building Lines Authorized
The governing body of a municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, establish a building line on a street in the municipality. Acts 1987, 70th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 214.133 - Activity Prohibited Within Building Line
In the area between a street and a building line established under this subchapter for the street, the erection, re-erection, reconstruction, or substantial repair of...
- Texas Section 214.134 - Resolution Or Ordinance
(a) In adopting a resolution or ordinance that establishes a building line, a municipality must follow the same procedure that it is authorized by law...
- Texas Section 214.135 - Condemnation Of Easements And Interests; Assessments
(a) A municipality must follow the same procedure that it is authorized by law to use to open streets when the municipality: (1) institutes and...
SUBCHAPTER E COMMERCIAL BUILDING PERMITS IN CERTAIN POPULOUS MUNICIPALITIES
- Texas Section 214.136 - Condemnation Of Property
(a) Before or after expiration of the period for conformance set under Section 213.134(b)(2), a municipality, following the same procedure that it is authorized by...
- Texas Section 214.161 - Municipality Covered By Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to a municipality with a population of more than 1.18 million located primarily in a county with a population of 2...
- Texas Section 214.162 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Commercial building" means a building that is not a single family residence. (2) "Permit department" means the municipal agency that is...
- Texas Section 214.163 - Permit Application Requirements; Issuance Of Permit
(a) A person who desires to obtain a commercial building permit must file with the permit application a certified copy of any instrument that contains...
- Texas Section 214.164 - Filing Of Plat And Restrictions; Effect On Permit
(a) At the time that a subdivider files a plat of a proposed subdivision for recording, the subdivider shall file with the permit department two...
- Texas Section 214.165 - Repairs; Conversions
(a) A person who proposes to substantially repair or remodel a commercial building located within a subdivision or to convert a single family residence into...
- Texas Section 214.166 - Injunction
(a) A person who, without obtaining a permit, attempts to construct or repair any structure for which a commercial building permit is required may be...
- Texas Section 214.167 - Review Of Refusal To Issue Permit
(a) An administrative refusal to issue a commercial building permit based on a violation of restrictions contained in a deed or other instrument is reviewable...
SUBCHAPTER F BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEMS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES WHOLLY LOCATED IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
- Texas Section 214.168 - Void Permits
A commercial permit obtained without full compliance with this subchapter is void. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Renumbered...
- Texas Section 214.191 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Alarm system" means a device or system that transmits a signal intended to summon police of a municipality in response to...
- Texas Section 214.1915 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to a municipality with a population of less than 100,000 that is located wholly in a county with a population of...
- Texas Section 214.192 - Categories Of Alarm Systems
The category of alarm system to be regulated is burglary. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 550, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Renumbered...
- Texas Section 214.193 - Duration Of Municipal Permit
(a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance that requires a person to obtain a permit from the municipality before a person may use an alarm...
- Texas Section 214.194 - Municipal Permit Fee Generally
(a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance that requires a person to pay an annual fee to obtain a permit from the municipality before the...
- Texas Section 214.195 - Nonrenewal Or Revocation Of Permit And Termination Of Municipal Response; Discrimination Prohibited
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (d), a municipality may not terminate its law enforcement response to a residential permit holder because of excess false...
- Texas Section 214.1955 - Multiunit Housing Facilities
(a) A municipality may not refuse to issue an alarm system permit for a residential location solely because the residential location is an individual residential...
- Texas Section 214.196 - On-site Inspection Required
A municipality may not consider a false alarm to have occurred unless a response is made by an agency of the municipality within 30 minutes...
- Texas Section 214.197 - Penalties For False Alarms
A municipality may impose a penalty for the signaling of a false alarm by a burglar alarm system if at least three other false alarms...
- Texas Section 214.198 - Verification
A municipality may require an alarm systems monitor to attempt to contact the occupant of the alarm system location twice before the municipality responds to...
- Texas Section 214.199 - Exception Of Municipality From Alarm System Response
(a) The governing body of a municipality may not adopt an ordinance providing that law enforcement personnel of the municipality will not respond to any...
SUBCHAPTER F-1 BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEMS IN LARGE MUNICIPALITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES WHOLLY OR PARTLY LOCATED IN LARGE COUNTIES
- Texas Section 214.200 - Priority Or Level Of Response Not Affected; Liability Of Municipality For Nonresponse
(a) Nothing in this subchapter: (1) affects the priority or level of response provided by a municipality to a permitted location; or (2) waives the...
- Texas Section 214.201 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Alarm system" and "permit" have the meanings assigned by Section 214.191. (2) "Alarm systems monitor" means a person who acts as...
- Texas Section 214.2015 - Applicability
This subchapter does not apply to a municipality to which Subchapter F applies. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 930 (H.B. 2162), Sec....
- Texas Section 214.202 - Categories Of Alarm Systems
The category of alarm system to be regulated is burglary. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 930 (H.B. 2162), Sec. 3, eff. September...
- Texas Section 214.203 - Duration Of Municipal Permit
(a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance that requires a person to obtain a permit from the municipality before a person may use an alarm...
- Texas Section 214.204 - Municipal Permit Fee Generally
(a) If a municipality adopts an ordinance that requires a person to pay an annual fee to obtain a permit from the municipality before the...
- Texas Section 214.205 - Nonrenewal Or Revocation Of Permit; Termination Of Municipal Response; Discrimination Prohibited
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a municipality may not terminate its law enforcement response to a residential permit holder because of excess false...
- Texas Section 214.2055 - Multiunit Housing Facilities
(a) A municipality may not refuse to issue an alarm system permit for a residential location solely because the residential location is an individual residential...
- Texas Section 214.206 - On-site Inspection Required
A municipality may not consider a false alarm to have occurred unless a response is made by an agency of the municipality within a reasonable...
- Texas Section 214.207 - Penalties For False Alarms
(a) A municipality may impose a penalty on a person who uses an alarm system in the municipality for the report of a false alarm...
- Texas Section 214.208 - Procedures For Reducing False Alarms
A municipality may require an alarm systems monitor to attempt to contact the occupant of the alarm system location twice before the municipality responds to...
- Texas Section 214.209 - Exception Of Municipality From Alarm System Response
(a) The governing body of a municipality may not adopt an ordinance providing that law enforcement personnel of the municipality will not respond to any...
- Texas Section 214.210 - Priority Or Level Of Response Not Affected; Liability Of Municipality For Nonresponse
(a) Nothing in this subchapter: (1) affects the priority or level of response provided by a municipality to a permitted location; or (2) waives the...
SUBCHAPTER G BUILDING AND REHABILITATION CODES
- Texas Section 214.2105 - Exclusion Of Certain Alarm Systems By Owner
(a) A property owner or an agent of the property owner authorized to make decisions regarding the use of the property may elect to exclude...
- Texas Section 214.211 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "International Residential Code" means the International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings promulgated by the International Code Council. (2) "National...
- Texas Section 214.212 - International Residential Code
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the International Residential Code, as it existed on May 1, 2001, is adopted as a municipal...
- Texas Section 214.213 - Exceptions
(a) The International Residential Code and the International Building Code do not apply to the installation and maintenance of electrical wiring and related components. (b)...
- Texas Section 214.214 - National Electrical Code
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the National Electrical Code, as it existed on May 1, 2001, is adopted as the municipal electrical construction...
- Texas Section 214.215 - Adoption Of Rehabilitation Codes Or Provisions
(a) In this section, "rehabilitation" means the alteration, remodeling, enlargement, or repair of an existing structure. (b) A municipality that adopts a building code, other...
- Texas Section 214.216 - International Building Code
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the International Building Code, as it existed on May 1, 2003, is adopted as a municipal...
- Texas Section 214.217 - Notice Regarding Model Code Adoption Or Amendment In Certain Municipalities
(a) In this section, "national model code" means a publication that is developed, promulgated, and periodically updated at a national level by organizations consisting of...
- Texas Section 214.218 - Immediate Effect Of Certain Codes Or Provisions Delayed
(a) In this section, "national model code" has the meaning assigned by Section 214.217. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the governing body of...
SUBCHAPTER H REGISTRATION OF VACANT BUILDINGS
- Texas Section 214.219 - Minimum Habitability Standards For Multi-family Rental Buildings In Certain Municipalities
(a) This section applies only to a municipality with a population of 1.7 million or more. This section does not affect the authority of a...
- Texas Section 214.231 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Building" means any enclosed structure designed for use as a habitation or for a commercial use, including engaging in trade or...
- Texas Section 214.232 - Presumption Of Vacancy
A building is presumed to be vacant under this subchapter if: (1) all lawful residential, commercial, recreational, charitable, or construction activity at the building has...
- Texas Section 214.233 - Registration
(a) A municipality located in a county with a population of two million or more may adopt an ordinance requiring owners of vacant buildings to...
SUBCHAPTER I EMINENT DOMAIN AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES TO TAKE ABANDONED CONDOMINIUMS
- Texas Section 214.234 - Form
An ordinance adopted under this subchapter may require a designated municipal official to adopt a form for registration. The form adopted may require the disclosure...
- Texas Section 214.301 - Applicability
This subchapter applies only to a municipality with a population of more than 1.9 million. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 693 (H.B....
- Texas Section 214.302 - Definition
In this subchapter, "condominium" means a condominium as defined by Section 81.002 or 82.003, Property Code. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 693...
- Texas Section 214.303 - Eminent Domain Authority
A municipality may take a condominium through the use of eminent domain for the purpose of the elimination of urban blight if a tract or...
SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 214.304 - Expiration Of Subchapter
This subchapter expires December 31, 2016. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 693 (H.B. 364), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2011.
- Texas Section 214.901 - Energy Conservation
A home-rule municipality may require that the construction of buildings comply with the energy conservation standards in the municipal building code. Acts 1987, 70th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 214.902 - Rent Control
(a) The governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, establish rent control if: (1) the governing body finds that a housing emergency exists due...
- Texas Section 214.903 - Fair Housing Ordinances
(a) The governing body of a municipality may adopt fair housing ordinances that provide fair housing rights, compliance duties, and remedies that are substantially equivalent...
- Texas Section 214.904 - Time For Issuance Of Municipal Building Permit
(a) This section applies only to a permit required by a municipality to erect or improve a building or other structure in the municipality or...
- Texas Section 214.905 - Prohibition Of Certain Municipal Requirements Regarding Sales Of Housing Units Or Residential Lots
(a) A municipality may not adopt a requirement in any form, including through an ordinance or regulation or as a condition for granting a building...