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Texarkana, TX Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

Significant Restrictions
Compiled from the official code textEditor Martyn O'NeillLast verified September 2026

Key Facts

Governing section
Sec. 140-179
On-site sales
Prohibited
Increased traffic
Named obnoxious condition
Outside employees
Not permitted

Summary

Texarkana bars home occupations from selling goods or services on-site and from generating increased traffic to the property.

Home occupation means a home occupation is an occupation carried on in the home by a member of the occupant's family, without the employment of additional persons, without the use a sign to advertise the occupation, without offering any commodity or service for sale on the premises and which does not create obnoxious noise or other obnoxious conditions to abutting residential property such as emission of odor, increased traffic or generation of light or smoke, and where the use is carried on in the main structure only. A home occupation shall specifically exclude the operation of a repair garage, beauty shop, plumbing shop or similar activity.

Hospital means an establishment licensed pursuant to the Texas Hospital Licensing Law that:

(1)Offers services, facilities, and beds for use for more than 24 hours for two or more unrelated individuals requiring diagnosis, treatment, or care for illness, injury, deformity, abnormality, or pregnancy; and(2)Regularly maintains, at a minimum, clinical laboratory services, diagnostic X-ray services, treatment facilities including surgery or obstetrical care or both, and other definitive medical or surgical treatment of similar extent. (See Texas Health and Safety Code § 241.003(5)).

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Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27).

Full Breakdown

Under the zoning code's definition of a home occupation, the business must run inside the main structure, use no advertising sign, hire no outside employees, and avoid "obnoxious conditions to abutting residential property": the ordinance names increased traffic right alongside odor, noise, light and smoke. Combined with the on-premises sales ban, this keeps client and customer visits out of residential home-based businesses in Texarkana; a repair garage, beauty shop or plumbing shop is excluded from the home-occupation category entirely, regardless of traffic.

Violations & Fines

Zoning enforcement can cite the property and require the home occupation to shut down or relocate to a commercially zoned site; repeat violations support code-enforcement penalties under the general zoning enforcement provisions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I have clients come to my home office in Texarkana?
The zoning code defines a home occupation as one that doesn't offer goods or services for sale on the premises or create increased traffic, so regular client visits fall outside the protected use.
Does the traffic rule apply to all home businesses?
It applies to any use classified as a home occupation under Sec. 140-179; repair garages, beauty shops and plumbing shops are excluded from that category outright.

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