Burleson, TX Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Section 50-218 of the Burleson Code of Ordinances sits in Chapter 50, Division 7, Travel Trailer Parks, and applies to those parks. It is not written as a backyard rule for houses in the City of Burleson. The section makes four demands. Cooking shelters, barbecue pits, fireplaces and wood burning stoves shall be so located, constructed, maintained and used as to minimize fire hazards and smoke nuisance. No open fire shall be permitted except in approved facilities. No open fire shall be left unattended. And no fuel shall be used and no material burned which emits dense smoke or objectionable odors, which is the clause that reaches a smoker or pit producing heavy smoke.

The surrounding sections explain who is covered. Under § 50-211(1), a travel trailer park can be located only where the zoning ordinance permits that use, and § 50-61 makes it unlawful to construct, alter or extend a manufactured home park, mobile home park or travel trailer park without a city permit. Section 50-213(b) says spaces may be used by travel trailers, tents and other short-term shelter, that all spaces are rented by the day or week only, and that an occupant shall remain in the same travel trailer park not more than 30 days.

Manufactured home and mobile home parks have a near-twin rule in § 50-187(d): barbecue pits, fireplaces, stoves and incinerators must minimize fire hazards and smoke nuisance, no open fire may be left unattended, and no dense-smoke fuel may be used. That version does not repeat the approved-facilities sentence. Cooking fires in City of Burleson parks are a different subject, handled by § 58-18, which allows only barbecue grills fueled by charcoal or propane. For penalties, § 1-14 sets a fine not exceeding $500.00 where a provision carries none of its own, and not exceeding $2,000.00 for rules governing fire safety, zoning, or public health and sanitation.