Taylor County, TX HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

04, Deed Covenants or Restrictions, requires that each subdivision have an approved list of restrictions, if any, covering minimum home size, minimum lot size, whether mobile homes are allowed, and who is to enforce the restriction. The Commissioners' Court must be provided a copy of the restrictions as part of the subdivision's supporting documents before the plat is approved. This means the county's role is limited to collecting and filing the covenant package at the platting stage: it does not itself investigate or prosecute a homeowner for violating a deed restriction.

The requirement that every plat name 'who is to enforce the restriction' forces each subdivision to designate an enforcer, whether that is a homeowners association, the developer, or another named party, and that designation becomes part of the public record the Commissioners' Court holds alongside the plat. If a subdivision's covenant package names no HOA, the restrictions still exist as private, recorded deed language, but no county department will step in on the HOA's behalf. Separately, unincorporated Taylor County has no zoning and no general code-enforcement ordinance of its own, since Texas counties act only under specific enabling statutes such as Local Government Code Chapter 232 for platting.

So a resident's dispute over a deed-restriction violation, such as an unapproved mobile home on a lot restricted to site-built homes, is a private civil matter to be pursued by whoever Sec. 04 lists as the enforcer, not something the county's Development/Permitting office will cite or fine. The county's interest in the covenant package is limited to confirming, at the time of platting, that an enforcement mechanism has been identified.