Texarkana, TX Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Home occupation signs
- Not allowed, any size
- Governing section
- Sec. 140-179
- Applies to
- All residential zoning districts
- Effect of violating
- Loses home-occupation status
Summary
Texarkana's zoning code defines a lawful home occupation as one run without any sign advertising the business, so no home-business signage is allowed at all.
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)).
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 Sec. 140-179 of the zoning code, a home occupation is only lawful if it is carried on by a family member living in the home, without hiring outside employees, without selling goods on-site, without creating noise, odor, traffic or light nuisances, and critically, without using a sign to advertise the occupation. A sign advertising a home-based business on a residential lot takes the use outside the definition of a permitted home occupation entirely, exposing the operator to zoning enforcement rather than just a sign-code violation.
Violations & Fines
Putting up any sign advertising a home occupation disqualifies the use from the home-occupation definition, subjecting the property to zoning code enforcement action; the city can order the sign removed and treat the business as an unpermitted commercial use in a residential district.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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