Carrollton, TX Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

14 of the general offenses chapter makes it an offense to urinate or defecate in or on a public street, alley, sidewalk, yard, park, building, structure, plaza, or public or utility right-of-way, or anywhere else in public view, regardless of whether the specific location is otherwise a public place. The ordinance provides a single affirmative defense: the person was in a restroom at the time. The section was adopted by Ordinance 2122 in 1996 and sits within Title XIII, General Offenses, alongside related public-morals provisions such as the ban on manifesting the purpose of prostitution or drug sales in a public place.

Because the offense reaches conduct that is merely in public view, it applies beyond streets and parks to any spot visible to others, including private yards seen from a sidewalk or roadway. Enforcement runs through the Carrollton Police Department, and, as with other Chapter 130 offenses, the violation is charged as a Class C-equivalent misdemeanor under the city's general penalty structure rather than under any state statute specific to public urination.