Farmersville, TX Animal Ordinances: Beekeeping (2026)

Sec. 11-73, titled "Keeping of bees," is a single-sentence nuisance rule sitting in Chapter 11's article on restricted and prohibited animals, right after the fowl, rabbit, and guinea pig rules at Sec. 11-72 and before the state sterilization-adoption section at Sec. 11-92. It sets no numeric hive-count limit, no lot-size minimum, no property-line setback distance, and no flyway-barrier requirement the way many Texas cities' dedicated apiary ordinances do. Farmersville instead relies on the same "reasonable use and enjoyment" and health-safety-welfare test used citywide for animal nuisances, applied case by case by the animal control officer, typically triggered by a neighbor's complaint about stinging incidents, swarming, or hives crowded against a shared property line.

Because bees fall within Chapter 11's general animal provisions, complaints route through the same Sec. 11-47 noncomplying-premises procedure used for other animal nuisances: written notice ordering correction of the condition, with injunctive relief available on top of criminal proceedings if the beekeeper ignores it. The zoning code's schedule of permitted uses in Chapter 77 does not carve out a separate apiary use tied to this section.