Brazoria County sets no ordinance on trash-can appearance or storage in unincorporated areas. But accumulating uncontained rubbish, junk, and refuse can be a public nuisance under Texas Health & Safety Code Ch. 343. Inside cities, the municipal solid-waste code sets specific container rules.
There is no county rule dictating where residents store trash cans or how many they may keep in unincorporated Brazoria County; the county can't zone. What the county CAN reach under Health & Safety Code § 343.011 is the keeping, storing, or accumulating of rubbish, including furniture, tires, appliances, and cans, on premises in a neighborhood or within 300 feet of a public street for 10 days or more, unless completely enclosed in a building or not visible from the street. That is the operative standard the county's Environmental Health division enforces. Inside Pearland and other cities, the city solid-waste chapter (Pearland Ch. 12) requires garbage be kept in covered/approved containers and bars uncontained waste as a nuisance.
Uncontained accumulated rubbish that meets the Ch. 343 nuisance test can be abated after notice; county may recover cleanup costs. City container violations carry municipal fines.
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