Texarkana, TX Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

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)).