Texas Health & Safety Code 822.047 prohibits any Texas city or county from regulating dogs based on breed. Local breed bans against pit bulls, Rottweilers, or other breeds are unenforceable in every Texas municipality.
Under Texas Health & Safety Code Section 822.047, a county or municipality may place additional requirements on the ownership of a dangerous dog only if the requirements are not breed-specific. This means Texas cities and counties cannot ban, restrict ownership of, or impose extra rules on dogs simply because they are pit bulls, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, or any other breed. Local rules must instead focus on individual dog behavior. Owners across Texas may keep any breed, though dangerous-dog laws still apply once a specific dog has bitten or attacked.
There are no breed-based violations in Texas. Local breed bans are void; enforcement focuses on individual dangerous-dog determinations and bite history.
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Richmond, TX
Richmond does not publish a code section setting numeric residential quiet hours. Loud noise complaints are addressed through Chapter 22 (Nuisances) and Texa...
Richmond, TX
Richmond requires durable fence materials and bans scrap lumber, plywood, sheet metal, plastic, fiberglass, barbed wire, welded wire, agricultural fencing, a...
Richmond, TX
Richmond requires the finished side of any fence to face outward toward neighbors and the right-of-way, and forbids placing a fence outside surveyed lot line...
Richmond, TX
Richmond requires a fence permit for new construction, replacement with different materials, height changes, reconfiguration, driveway gates, and any fence e...
Richmond, TX
Richmond limits residential fences to 42 inches in front yards and six feet in side and rear yards, with narrow exceptions for steel tubular and wrought iron...
Richmond, TX
Richmond, as an incorporated city in Fort Bend County, bars outdoor burning of brush, debris, and trash inside the city limits regardless of state burn-ban s...
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