Garland, TX Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Code § 52.18(F) states plainly that hot ashes from a fireplace or hot coals from a barbecue grill shall not be placed in a residential solid waste container, and § 52.30(15) repeats hot ashes or hot charcoal on the separate list of materials the city will not collect at any property. The rule sits alongside § 52.18(B), which bars igniting a fire or burning material inside any City-furnished container in the first place, underscoring that the concern is fire and container damage risk rather than outdoor cooking itself. There's no city-wide zoning standard in this code governing where a residential grill or smoker may sit on a lot; the only citywide operative text reaching backyard barbecue equipment is this disposal rule, which applies to every Garland address regardless of what type of grill, smoker or fireplace produced the ash.