Guadalupe County cannot zone, so its main blight tool outside city limits is nuisance abatement. Accumulated rubbish, abandoned vehicles, and dilapidated buildings are public nuisances under Tex. Health & Safety Code §343.011, with junked vehicles separately covered by Transportation Code Ch. 683.
Chapter 343 gives Guadalupe County its primary code-enforcement lever, since counties have no zoning or general property-maintenance code. Tex. Health & Safety Code §343.011 declares a public nuisance to include accumulating rubbish such as abandoned vehicles, refrigerators, stoves, furniture, and tires visible from a public street for 10 days or more, and maintaining a structurally unsafe or dilapidated building. The county gives written notice; if the nuisance is not abated within 30 days, §343.012 sets a $50 to $200 fine, each day a separate offense, and the county may abate and lien the property. A junked, inoperable vehicle is defined in Transportation Code §683.071 and declared a nuisance the Commissioners Court can abate under §683.072.
Abandoned vehicles, rubbish piles, and dilapidated structures are nuisances. After a 30-day notice, fines run $50 to $200 per day, rising to $200 to $1,000 for repeat offenders, plus county abatement and a lien.
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