Mission, TX

Mission has no breed ban: dogs are regulated by behavior. A dog with a bite or attack history is declared dangerous or vicious and must be muzzled or confined.

Mission bans keeping cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats or other livestock within 300 feet of any home, church, school or store citywide.

Mission sets no numeric cap on cats, but any property keeping more than four adult dogs is legally a "dog kennel" under Sec. 14-77, and kennels can't sit within 200 feet of a…

Mission Code of Ordinances Chapter 14 (Animals) governs animal control inside the city, requiring dogs to be restrained when off the owner's property. The Mission Animal Shelter (227…

Feeding wildlife is banned inside posted Designated Wildlife Habitat Areas in Mission. The city council creates these areas by ordinance, posts warning signage, and bans feeding once…

Mission lets residents keep chickens, ducks, geese, quail and pigeons if the birds are penned and not raised commercially. But no domestic fowl may be kept within 100 feet of any…

Exotic wildlife requires TPWD permits in Texas. Mission may have additional local restrictions on dangerous animals.

Beekeeping is regulated locally in Mission. TAIS governs commercial operations statewide. No state registration required for hobby beekeepers.

Mission has no published STR-specific occupancy cap. Maximum occupancy is set by the International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) bedroom-area rules and the city's adopted building /…

Mission may require business registration and compliance with zoning for STR operations. Check with Mission Planning & Zoning for current permit requirements.

Mission has no published short-term-rental-specific noise ordinance. STR guests are governed by the citywide noise rules in the Mission Code of Ordinances and by Texas Penal Code Sec…

Mission has no published STR-specific parking rule. STR guests use the off-street parking required for the underlying residential use under the Mission Zoning Ordinance plus on-street…

STR hosts must collect and remit the 6% Texas state Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT). Local HOT may also apply. Register with TX Comptroller's Office.

Mission requires every motor vehicle's exhaust to pass through a working muffler, and caps vehicle-mounted sound equipment so it is not audible beyond 100 feet. Driving a loud…

Amplified music, loudspeakers, and other sound equipment in Mission can't exceed 65 decibels measured at the property line of whoever complains, day or night, and reactivating a device…

Mission Code Chapter 42, Article VI governs noise. Quiet hours generally enforced in the evenings and early mornings. Violations are Class C misdemeanors with fines up to $2,000.

Nonresidential properties in Mission and its nearby ETJ may not emit noise exceeding 65 decibels, day or night, measured at the complaining party's property line.

Construction noise in Mission is governed by Chapter 42, Article VI. Standard South Texas practice allows construction during daytime hours. Verify current hours with city.

Persistent barking is a nuisance violation under Mission's noise and animal ordinances. Officers may issue warnings before citations.

Mission bars parking on any street for more than 30 minutes between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., with a narrow overnight exception for residents without off-street parking.

Mission designates passenger and freight curb loading zones by sign; passenger zones cap stops at 3 minutes, freight zones at 30 minutes, and violators face a citation under Chapter…

Mission's zoning code defines a legal parking space as a paved, all-weather surfaced area, so parking a car on bare dirt, gravel, or grass in the driveway or front yard doesn't satisfy…

Street parking in Mission is governed by local traffic ordinances and TX Transportation Code. Generally permitted except in designated no-parking zones.

Commercial vehicle parking in residential areas is restricted. TX Transportation Code §545.307 prohibits overnight commercial vehicle parking in residential subdivisions where signs…

Abandoned and junked vehicles are regulated under TX Transportation Code §683 and Mission's nuisance ordinances. Inoperable vehicles on public streets are subject to removal.

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…

Mission requires a conditional use permit for home occupations in residential zoning districts, with standards limiting employees, signage, parking, noise, and exterior alterations…

Mission caps home occupation signs at 12 by 12 inches and bans illumination, one of the tightest sign allowances in the city's code.

Running a family daycare from a Mission home is zoned as a home occupation, which requires a conditional use permit and stays secondary to the residence.

In Mission, a home-based business needs a conditional use permit, and client traffic can't exceed 10% of a street's average hourly load, with parking capped at four spaces.

Cottage food producers in Hidalgo County follow the Texas Cottage Food Law, not a county ordinance. No permit or inspection is required, and annual gross food income is capped at…

Trees in Mission's public rights-of-way and street-corner sight triangles can't have branches or foliage below 15 feet from the street gutter flow line, and low limbs blocking traffic…

The City of Mission assigns every address three weekly watering days by quadrant and, once the city manager declares a Stage 2 drought, limits hose-end sprinkler and automatic-system…

Mission caps grass, weeds, and brush at 12 inches on any lot, occupied or vacant, including the adjacent sidewalk. Agriculturally zoned lots get 36 inches. Code Enforcement notices…

Mission requires equivalent-caliper replacement when a preserved shade tree is approved for removal under the city's landscaping regulations.

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…

Mission regulates residential pool barriers through the building code adopted in Chapter 18, Article II of the City Code, which incorporates the International Residential Code (IRC)…

Mission requires a permit before building a residential swimming pool, charged as a flat $300 swimming pool permit fee, plus separate electrical and plumbing permit fees under the…

Mission requires a building permit for new fences, charged at $0.15 per square foot under the city's building permit fee schedule.

Fence height limits in Mission are governed by Appendix A – Zoning. No statewide height preemption applies. Typical residential standards in South Texas: 6 ft rear/side, 4 ft front…

Hidalgo County has no zoning, so it sets no neighbor or boundary-fence rules in unincorporated areas. Shared-fence rights come from Texas common law and deed restrictions, not county…

Consumer fireworks are banned in Mission under Ordinance §66-3, which dates to the 1970s. All Rio Grande Valley cities including Mission, Pharr, Edinburg, and McAllen ban personal…

The Hidalgo County Fire Marshal regulates outdoor fires in the unincorporated area under Texas Administrative Code outdoor-burning rules. Contained recreational fires must be attended…

The Hidalgo County Fire Marshal enforces the International Fire Code and requires working smoke alarms in overnight accommodation facilities. Fire and life-safety inspections verify…

Hidalgo County has no wildland-urban-interface defensible-space mandate; brush clearance is addressed through outdoor-burning and burn-permit rules rather than a clearance ordinance…

Outdoor burning in unincorporated Hidalgo County is governed by Chapter 111 of the Texas Administrative Code and requires a burn permit from the Fire Marshal to burn brush. Burning is…

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…

Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated Hidalgo County has no ADU or second-dwelling zoning ordinance. What does apply to a new accessory dwelling is a septic (OSSF) permit, a…

Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated Hidalgo County has no minimum-dwelling-size or tiny-home ordinance. Placing a tiny home instead triggers a septic (OSSF) permit, a county…

Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated Hidalgo County has no shed size, height, or setback ordinance. A simple storage shed with no plumbing needs no county building permit, but…

Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated Hidalgo County has no garage-conversion ordinance and issues no building permit for interior work. But converting a garage into living…

Mission requires a building permit before any construction, alteration, or repair. Chapter 18, Article II of the City Code adopts the 2000 International Building Code, and the city's…

Any electrical wiring, alteration, or equipment addition in Mission requires a permit from the city electrical inspector before work starts, pulled by a licensed master electrician…

In Mission's FEMA-mapped special flood hazard areas, new and substantially improved homes must have their lowest floor, including basement, elevated to or above the base flood…

Mission bans polluted discharges into its MS4 storm sewer system and requires construction sites disturbing an acre or more of land to obtain a permit and file a stormwater pollution…

Mission and Hidalgo County participate in FEMA's NFIP. Rio Grande basin creates flood risk. Development in FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs) requires permits and…

Construction sites in Mission must control erosion and sediment through a stormwater pollution prevention plan, silt fences, sediment basins, and site stabilization within 14 days of…

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…

Mission runs no red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic-signal enforcement statewide on June 2, 2019, so no Hidalgo County city can install, operate, or ticket by camera…

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…

Mission lets you put signs in your windows without a sign permit, but each window sign can't be bigger than the window's own surface area under Chapter 86.

Mission's sign code allows digital billboards only in the expressway and secondary arterial corridors, requires static non-flashing messages, and bars placement within 500 feet of…

Mission caps garage-sale signs at one per property, four square feet per side, and requires removal immediately after the sale ends.

Texas Election Code 259.003 and Election Code Section 259.002 protect political signs on private residential property. Cities cannot regulate compliant signs at any time, and HOAs…

Mission caps noise from any nonresidential property, including data center cooling and generator equipment, at 65 decibels around the clock, measured at the complaining neighbor's…

Mission requires residents to arrange their own removal of heavy bulky items like discarded auto bodies and oversized refuse the standard garbage truck can't haul, plus tree limbs…

Mission requires trash dumpsters and refuse containers at multi-family and nonresidential properties to sit behind a six-foot solid masonry enclosure with opaque wood or metal doors…

Dumping garbage, trash, dead animals, or debris on streets, alleys, curbs, or private property anywhere in Mission is unlawful littering classified as illegal dumping, punishable by a…

Mission requires garbage containers to be kept at the alley for collection, or at a point the city designates if there's no alley, and residents can never block the alley with cans or…

Mission collects residential garbage and refuse twice a week on a schedule set by the city, through its exclusive contracted hauler: placing waste out for pickup is mandatory, not…

Mission picks up bundled yard trimmings with regular trash service, but larger brush, stumps, and land-clearing debris are the property owner's responsibility or a paid add-on.

Texas Health and Safety Code Section 361.425 orders every county, municipality, school district, university, and state agency to run a recycling program that separates and collects at…

Mission treats HOA deed restrictions as private matters: the city gives HOA input "due weight" but is never legally bound to enforce a CC&R over its own ordinances.

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…

Mission closes all city parks and recreational facilities from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. every day, with limited exceptions for permitted or city-sponsored events.

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…

Mobile food units and food truck parks are conditional uses under Mission's zoning code, restricted mostly to commercial land, spaced one mile apart, and barred from public streets or…

Mission outlaws foot and bicycle peddling, hawking, and taking orders from motorists on public streets, rights-of-way, and medians outright: no permit exists for it, and only…

Mission requires mobile food units to hold a one-year conditional use permit, a zoning business permit, and a health department permit, with a one-mile separation from other units.

Mission's zoning code sets no maximum lot coverage percentage for single-family homes in the R-1, R-1A, and R-1T districts: the area-requirements table lists it as "N/A." Duplex…

Mission caps single-family homes in the R-1 district at 35 feet, with a mandatory stepback for any part of the structure above 25 feet in height.

In Mission's R-1 single-family district, homes must sit at least 20 feet back from the front lot line, 10 feet from the rear, and 6 feet from interior side lines.

Mission bars adult commercial establishments and sexually explicit material from operating within 1,000 feet of a church, school, or city property, or 600 feet of any residential…

Mission caps wrecker rotation slots and requires every tow operator to hold a city permit before towing from the police rotation list.

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…

Nonresidential properties in Mission must use cut-off light fixtures and cap illumination at the property line, with tighter limits next to residential zoning to curb light trespass…

Mission requires cut-off fixtures on nonresidential lighting so light isn't visible at the property line, capping illumination near residential zones at two-tenths footcandle and…

Mission enforces dangerous and substandard buildings under the 1985 Standard Unsafe Building Abatement Code, adopted by reference citywide, with appeals decided by the Building Board…

Vacant and weedy lots in unincorporated Hidalgo County are regulated as public nuisances under Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 343. Overgrown lots, dumped debris, and…

Drinking or carrying an open alcoholic beverage in any public place in Mission is illegal under Sec. 6-2, unless it happens in a city park under Sec. 70-4 or at a business holding a…

Mission adopts the 1997 Standard Housing Code as the minimum property-maintenance standard for every dwelling in the city, with violations fined up to $1,000 per day under Chapter 46…

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…

Mission caps permitted garage sales to a daily window of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. under Chapter 82, Article II of the city code.

Mission requires door-to-door and transient sellers to hold a city council-approved itinerant vendor license, backed by a $2,000 bond, before taking a single order.

Texas Penal Code section 48.05 (created by 2021's HB 1925) bans camping in a public place without consent, and Mission enforces it through its own street-obstruction and loitering…

Mission bans standing, remaining, or congregating on a public street or sidewalk in a way that blocks other people's free use of it, and requires dispersal when a police officer orders…

Mission requires a building permit for solar panel installations, and the city charges a flat $300.00 fee for that permit under the Chapter 18 building-fee schedule.

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…

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 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…

The Texas Right to Farm Act, Agriculture Code Chapter 251, protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits and local regulations after one year of operation. HB…

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…