Katy does not ban leaf blowers but requires noise-creating blowers, power fans, and internal combustion engines to be muffled enough to deaden the noise they produce.
Article 8.04 specifically addresses powered equipment by prohibiting the operation of any noise-creating blower, power fan, or internal combustion engine whose operation causes noise from the explosion of operating gases or fluids unless the noise is muffled and the engine is equipped with a muffler device sufficient to deaden the noise. Texas state law preempts municipalities from outright banning gas-powered leaf blowers, so Katy regulates them through this muffler requirement and the general nuisance noise prohibition rather than a time-of-day or fuel-type ban.
Operating an unmuffled blower, fan, or combustion engine subjects the operator and homeowner to citation under Article 8.04 and Class C misdemeanor fines up to $500.
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