Fulshear, TX

Fulshear property owners must keep lots clear of high weeds, grass, and accumulated brush that constitute a public nuisance, or face abatement and lien costs.

Fulshear's burn ban ordinance automatically adopts Fort Bend County's outdoor burning prohibition inside city limits, with violations punishable by fines up to $2,000.

Fulshear enforces Fort Bend County burn bans on outdoor fires citywide the moment the commissioners court declares one, under Chapter 20's Outdoor Fires article.

Fireworks are allowed in unincorporated Fort Bend County with strict distance limits, and aerial fireworks may be banned during drought conditions by Commissioners Court.

Selling, transporting, dispensing, or storing propane (LP-gas) in Texas requires a license from the Railroad Commission of Texas under Natural Resources Code Chapter 113. Only the…

Fulshear Code Compliance enforces a public nuisance ordinance against high weeds, tall grass, and overgrown vegetation on residential and commercial property within city limits.

Fulshear's development code bars planting or maintaining trees and vegetation in the street right-of-way, and specifically prohibits growth that blocks visibility of the road.

Fulshear requires a building, land disturbance, or subdivision permit before clearing land or removing trees in most zoning districts.

Texas Property Code 202.007 prohibits HOAs from banning rainwater harvesting systems, and Health & Safety Code 341.042 sets statewide standards for harvested rainwater used as a…

Fulshear treats inoperable vehicles with expired registration or inspection as junk motor vehicles, a code violation subject to certified-mail notice and abatement.

Fulshear bars parking or stopping on any street that leaves less than 12 feet of roadway open for traffic, with narrow exceptions for active loading and traffic obedience.

Fulshear requires all off-street parking and driveway areas, including single-family driveways, to be surfaced with poured concrete or asphalt: grass, gravel, and dirt parking pads are…

Fulshear bars commercial motor vehicles from stopping or parking on any city street except while actually loading or unloading, or during an emergency repair stop.

Fulshear Ordinance 2026-1533 prohibits parking commercial vehicles and large trailers on residential streets, with exemptions for pickups and active work trailers.

Fulshear caps front-yard RV and boat parking at 20 feet and limits guest use to a few days a year under the Coordinated Development Ordinance.

Texas Occupations Code chapter 2308 sets the statewide rules for nonconsent towing and vehicle booting. A vehicle owner has 14 business days to demand a hearing in the justice court…

Fulshear strictly regulates signage citywide, banning snipe signs and signs on public property, and limiting banners and on-premise signs through its Coordinated Development Ordinance.

Fulshear allows a family child-care home as an accessory residential use, but only if the operator lives on site and meets six CDO conditions.

Home occupations in Fulshear are classified as conditional uses, so operators must get an administrator-approved conditional use permit under the Coordinated Development Ordinance…

Texas does not license cottage food at all. Health and Safety Code Section 437.0191(a) declares that a cottage food production operation is not a food service establishment, and…

Fulshear has not adopted a municipal Hotel Occupancy Tax under Texas Tax Code Chapter 351 and imposes no city STR registration fee. STR operators owe the 6% Texas state HOT (Tax Code…

Fulshear has no STR-specific parking standard or guest-vehicle cap. STR properties must satisfy the off-street parking minimums in the city's zoning appendix (Appendix A) for the…

Fulshear has no STR-specific noise ordinance, so STR guests and hosts are bound by the generally applicable noise rules in Chapter 18, Article VI of the Code of Ordinances. Residential…

Every lodging provider, including short-term rental hosts, operating in Fulshear must register with the city's chief financial officer and hold a certificate of authority before…

Fort Bend County imposes no STR-specific occupancy limits in unincorporated areas. Texas counties lack general police power to regulate STRs under Local Gov't Code Ch. 233. Practical…

Fulshear Code of Ordinances Chapter 18, Article VI (Noise) sets nighttime hours from 10:01 PM to 6:59 AM in residential areas, with daytime hours from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM…

Fulshear prohibits keeping any animal or bird whose frequent, long, or continued sound unreasonably disturbs neighbors, regardless of decibel level, and three or more complaints within…

Fulshear bans loud vehicle noise from bad mufflers, jake brakes, and car stereos audible 30 feet away or causing felt vibration, under City Code § 18-229.

Fulshear requires a city council permit for outdoor speakers, PA systems, or amplifiers, and bans sound plainly audible 60 feet past the property line.

City code caps any sound source, including commercial and industrial equipment, at 85 dB(A) in daytime hours and 70 dB(A) at night, measured 60 feet from the property line.

Fulshear allows keeping livestock and other domestic animals as a residential accessory use for noncommercial purposes only, but the animals cannot run loose beyond the owner's…

Fulshear has no pit bull or breed-specific ban. City code declares a dog "dangerous" based on unprovoked attacks or threatening acts, then requires registration, secure enclosure, and…

Fulshear Code of Ordinances Chapter 6 (Animals) governs dog restraint and running-at-large rules within city limits, layered with Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 822 on dangerous…

Fort Bend County follows Texas state law allowing beekeeping as a qualifying agricultural use on tracts of 5 to 20 acres, granting agricultural valuation for property tax purposes when…

Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 822 Subchapter E governs ownership of dangerous wild animals: lions, tigers, bears, primates, and more. Owners must register with their county or…

Texas has no standalone hoarding statute; officers use Health & Safety Code Chapter 821 to seize animals deprived of necessary food, care, or shelter, and a court can divest the owner…

Texas lets hunters bait and feed game animals, including deer, on private property statewide. Baiting is unlawful on most public land, for wild turkey in the East Zone, and for all…

Fulshear regulates fences through Appendix A (Zoning) and Chapter 8 Article II (Construction Standards). Residential fences follow district rules with reduced heights in front yards…

Fulshear requires a building permit for any retaining wall over four feet tall, measured from the bottom of the footing to the top of the wall, or for any shorter wall that supports a…

Under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 143, Subchapter F, you cannot tear out a fence you jointly own with a neighbor, or one attached to a neighbor's fence, without mutual consent. To…

Public and semi-public pools in unincorporated Fort Bend County must be enclosed by barriers meeting county construction standards, on top of the statewide Texas Health and Safety Code…

A single-family above-ground or portable pool serving one or two resident families and their guests is exempt from Fort Bend County's pool permitting rules entirely.

Texas has no tiny-home-specific statute. Any transportable, chassis-mounted dwelling that reaches 320 square feet is manufactured housing under Occupations Code Chapter 1201, built to…

Fulshear treats mobile vendors and food trucks as a conditional use, restricting where they can set up and requiring restroom access and a health permit.

Fulshear outright bans selling any goods, food, or merchandise on the public right-of-way next to a sidewalk or roadway anywhere in the city.

Mobile food vendors operating in Fulshear must hold a Fort Bend County health permit and comply with city peddler, zoning, and event-vending requirements.

Fulshear provides each utility customer a 95-gallon single-stream recycling cart serviced weekly on Wednesdays, with accepted materials restricted to clean paper, cardboard, plastics…

Fulshear residents must use the GFL-provided 95-gallon carts and place them at the curb by 7:00 AM on Wednesday collection day.

Fulshear residents may set bulk items out next to their cart on Wednesday; oversized items receive a GFL yellow tag with arranged pickup instructions for the household.

Fulshear Ordinance 2023-1409 requires every utility customer to pay for solid waste service through GFL Environmental, with weekly Wednesday collection between 7 AM and 7 PM.

Fulshear requires multi-family, nonresidential, and mixed-use developments to enclose dumpsters behind six-foot opaque walls with gated access, located within 200 feet of the uses…

Fulshear makes it a misdemeanor to dump refuse on private land, public right-of-way, or any public property within city limits, with fines up to $4,000 per violation under the…

Fulshear does not fix trash and recycling pickup days in the city code. Section 30-40 instead points residents to the current solid waste collection services agreement on file with the…

Fulshear Ordinance 2025-1505 protects local waterways by regulating how residents drain pools and spas and prohibiting discharges to the sanitary sewer.

Fulshear requires land-disturbing sites in SU multifamily, SC, GC, DD, SO, and IN districts to use sediment and erosion control measures under a land disturbance permit before grading…

Fulshear caps engine idling at one hour under its noise ordinance, exempting only emergency equipment and vehicles at permitted public events or parades.

New homes and substantial improvements in Fulshear's special flood hazard areas must have the lowest floor built at or above the base flood elevation.

Texas prohibits damaging, destroying, or removing a sand dune or its vegetation seaward of a dune protection line or within a critical dune area unless a permit authorizes the work…

Texas Water Code Section 16.3145 orders the governing body of every Texas city and county to adopt the floodplain-management ordinances or orders needed to qualify for the National…

Fulshear has adopted the 2015 International Property Maintenance Code and enforces violations through its Code Compliance Division.

Fulshear prohibits posting garage sale signs on utility poles, lampposts, shade trees, public structures, medians, or any city right-of-way, even though residential garage sales…

Fulshear caps window signs at one per window frame with area capped at 50 percent of the window's square footage under the Coordinated Development Ordinance's attached sign standards.

Fulshear exempts low-wattage seasonal and holiday lighting from its standard outdoor lighting code and lets it flash or twinkle.

Fulshear allows temporary political signs on private property but caps display duration at 90 days and prohibits placement in public rights-of-way, on utility poles, or on city…

Fulshear's Coordinated Development Ordinance bans all billboards, including digital billboards, citywide regardless of zoning district.

Fulshear does not license tow companies itself: its code directs that illegally parked vehicles be towed and impounded only under the state's Occupations Code Chapter 2308 towing and…

Fulshear requires a city license to run a sexually oriented business, bars them within 1,000 feet of churches, schools, parks, homes, and each other, and limits hours to 10 a.m.-10…

Anyone selling e-cigarettes to Texas consumers must hold an e-cigarette retailer permit issued by the Comptroller, obtained for each place of business under Health and Safety Code…

Landlords in Fulshear must supply heat to rented dwelling units from October 1 through March 31, keeping habitable rooms at least 68 degrees under the city's Property Maintenance Code.

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005, a Texas landlord must give a defaulting or holdover tenant at least three days' written notice to vacate before filing a forcible detainer (eviction)…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.019 a residential late fee must be reasonable and may be charged only if written in the lease and the rent stays unpaid two full days after due. A fee is…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by giving notice, and the tenancy ends on the later of the date in the notice or one month after notice is…

Texas law forbids cities from adopting rent control. A municipality may not establish rent control unless its governing body finds a housing emergency caused by a disaster and the…

Texas places no statutory limit on how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit. However, the landlord must refund the deposit within 30 days after the tenant surrenders the…

In Texas a squatter can claim title only through adverse possession, with periods that shorten as the claim strengthens: 3 years under title or color of title (§ 16.024), 5 years with…

Fulshear's development code requires security lighting to be full cut-off, keeping 100% of light output below 90 degrees from vertical so the bulb stays hidden from neighboring…

New outdoor luminaires over 1800 lumens in unincorporated Fort Bend County must be shielded by lamp type, and streetlights near the George Observatory must emit zero uplight under the…

Fulshear closes all city-owned parks from sunset until sunrise citywide, with the only exception for city employees, officials, or agents acting within their official duties.

Texas HB 1819 (88th Legislature, 2023), codified at Local Government Code 370.008 (originally 370.007), prohibits all Texas municipalities and counties from adopting or enforcing…

Fulshear prohibits posting garage sale signs on utility poles, public structures, trees, and city right-of-way under its sign code.

Fulshear requires building and electrical permits through Building Services before residential rooftop solar photovoltaic systems can be installed, inspected, and connected.

Section 202.010 of the Texas Property Code voids any homeowners association rule that bans or restricts installing a solar energy device, a term that under Tax Code Section 171.107…

Fulshear's development code does not override private HOA covenants or deed restrictions, and the city will not enforce one property owner's private agreement against another.

Under the Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act, unpaid assessments become a lien (Tex. Prop. Code § 209.0094), but a Texas HOA may not foreclose that lien without first…

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs residential subdivision homeowners associations, not condominium associations and not associations that are themselves subject to the Public…

Property Code Section 202.007 voids any homeowners association rule that bans drought-resistant landscaping or water-conserving natural turf, and Section 202.008 bars fines for a brown…

Texas Property Code section 202.012 stops homeowners associations from banning display of the U.S. flag, the Texas flag, or an official U.S. armed forces flag. An association can…

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs HOA fines, but only for mandatory-membership subdivisions; condos fall under Chapter 82 instead. State law sets no dollar cap on a fine, only a…

A Texas property owners' association cannot sell your home at a trustee's sale the way a mortgage lender can. Tex. Prop. Code Section 209.0092 requires the association to obtain a…

Texas Property Code Section 209.016 sets no cap on how much of a subdivision an association can rent out, no minimum lease term, and no grandfather clause: a declaration can still ban…

Fulshear prohibits selling, distributing, possessing, or drinking any alcoholic beverage on the premises of any city park, with a narrow carve-out for permitted special events.

Fulshear's zoning code has no dedicated data center use category, so the city administrator decides case by case whether a proposed facility matches a listed use, and can prohibit it…

No data-center-specific ordinance exists; Fulshear's citywide noise code caps sound at 85 dB(A) daytime and 70 dB(A) nighttime, measured 60 feet from the property line, and this…

Fulshear bars peddlers, itinerant vendors, and solicitors from any property posted with a "no solicitors" sign, and limits door-to-door solicitation citywide to 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

New subdivided lots without fire-rated water lines need 25-foot road setbacks and 10-foot side setbacks under county infrastructure rules.

Texas Agriculture Code Section 251.004 shields farms and ranches in unincorporated Fort Bend County from nuisance suits once they have operated lawfully and substantially unchanged for…

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 212 and Agriculture Code Chapter 251 limit municipal authority to zone or regulate land qualified for agricultural use appraisal. Counties have no…

Any outdoor event outside city limits in unincorporated Fort Bend County that expects more than 2,500 people needs a mass gathering permit from the county judge, applied for at least…

Fort Bend County's Fire Code bans charcoal and open-flame grills on combustible balconies and decks, or within 10 feet of combustible construction, with narrow LP-gas exceptions.

A county Fire Marshal construction permit is required before building or substantially improving public buildings, commercial establishments, or multi-family housing with four or more…

Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 487 limits cannabis dispensing to state-licensed Compassionate Use Program providers: expanded to as many as 15 organizations by HB 46 (2025). There…

Texas Health & Safety Code 481.121 makes it a crime to possess or grow marijuana anywhere in the state. Home cultivation is illegal in every Texas city and county regardless of plant…

Texas Government Code Chapter 423 occupies the field of unmanned aircraft regulation. Cities and counties cannot adopt their own recreational drone ordinances, though limited municipal…

Texas Labor Code Section 62.0515 expressly preempts municipal and county minimum wage ordinances. The state minimum wage equals the federal floor of $7.25 per hour, and political…

Texas appellate courts have struck down municipal paid sick leave ordinances in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio as preempted under the Texas Minimum Wage Act. HB 2127 (2023) further…

Texas authorizes License to Carry (LTC) holders to carry concealed handguns statewide under Government Code Chapter 411. Since 2021, permitless constitutional carry under HB 1927 also…

Texas Local Government Code Section 229.001 broadly preempts municipal regulation of firearms, ammunition, knives, and related accessories. Cities cannot adopt or enforce ordinances…

Texas authorizes open carry of holstered handguns statewide for adults 21 and older under Penal Code 46.02 and HB 910 (2015). Long guns may be openly carried subject to disorderly…

Texas Penal Code 46.02(a-1) lets any non-prohibited adult carry a handgun inside a personally-owned or leased motor vehicle or watercraft without a License to Carry. Since HB 1927…

Texas nonprofits can conduct bingo only under a license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which absorbed the Texas Lottery Commission's charitable bingo program on…

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 234, Subchapter E lets any county's commissioners court license, zone, and inspect "game rooms": for-profit businesses with six or more skill or…

Texas Penal Code § 47.02(a) makes betting at cards, dice, or any game of chance a Class C misdemeanor. Section 47.02(b) supplies a defense: gambling that happens in a private place…

Texas licenses no retail sportsbook and no betting app. Placing a wager on the outcome of a game, contest, or a player's performance is a criminal offense under Penal Code §…

The Texas Legislature has authorized exactly one vehicle checkpoint program, and it has nothing to do with alcohol. Government Code Section 411.0095 lets the Department of Public…

Texas has never enacted an express statutory right to film police, so the legal boundary for a bystander with a phone is set by the offense of Interference with Public Duties, Texas…

Texas Penal Code Section 38.02 makes it a crime to refuse your name, residence address, or date of birth only after a peace officer has already lawfully arrested you. Being detained on…

No Texas statute obliges a driver to consent to a vehicle search, and none requires an officer to warn you that you may refuse. What Texas law does require is a paper trail: Article…

Texas lets golf carts onto public roads in four defined situations rather than by general permission: inside a platted master planned community, on a beach open to vehicular traffic…

The Texas Supreme Court in City of Laredo v. Laredo Merchants Association (2018) held that Health and Safety Code Section 361.0961 preempts municipal plastic bag bans. Cities and…

Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 161 sets the minimum age for purchasing or possessing tobacco and e-cigarette products at 21 statewide, aligned with federal Tobacco 21. Active…

Texas regulates extra lighting by color, count, height and aim rather than by naming underglow. Transportation Code Section 547.305 bars any lamp showing red from directly in front of…

Texas grants no square inches of windshield to a camera. Transportation Code Section 547.613(a)(1) makes it a misdemeanor to operate a vehicle with an object or material placed on or…

Texas banned motorcycle lane splitting in plain words on September 1, 2023. Transportation Code Section 545.0605(a)(3)(B), added by House Bill 4122 of the 88th Legislature, says the…

Texas outlaws license plate covers in Transportation Code Section 504.945(a)(7), which makes it an offense to display a plate carrying a coating, covering, protective substance or…

Texas does not prohibit owning, mounting or using a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The one radar offense in the vehicle equipment chapter, Transportation Code Section…

Texas is one of the states that never wrote a studded tire calendar. Transportation Code Section 547.612(c) is the whole of the law: a tire on a moving vehicle may not carry a block…

Texas allows film down to 25 percent light transmission on both front side windows and on the windshield strip, with a matching ceiling of 25 percent luminous reflectance, and it sets…