Dallas County, TX Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)

Sec. 34-141(b) of the Dallas County Code sets a firm investigation clock: possible violations shall be investigated within seven days of detection or notification. If the director determines a public nuisance exists, Sec. 34-142(a)(3) requires the notice to abate to give the responsible party until the 30th day after service to fix the condition. Under Sec. 34-142(a)(7), the property owner has 31 days from the date the notice is served to submit a written request for an appeals hearing. Sec. 34-143(c) then sets the county's own follow-up timeline: the director must reinspect the premises either after the expiration of 31 days from the notice if no appeal was requested, or seven days after the County Administrator or a designee upholds a finding of public nuisance following an appeal hearing.

If the nuisance persists at that reinspection, Sec. 34-143(c)(2) directs the director to issue a citation immediately, unless there has been substantial progress on a large or expensive cleanup or there were mitigating circumstances like severe weather, and to reinspect at least once a week after that, issuing successive citations for each week the violation continues.