Killeen, TX Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Sec. 16-28, adopted by Ordinance No. 94-41 on May 24, 1994, sits in Chapter 16's Division 1 general offenses alongside the city's ban on soliciting controlled substances in Sec. 16-29 and its rule on securing discarded refrigerators in Sec. 16-27. The section reaches three situations: acting inside an actual public place, acting in immediate proximity to one, and acting somewhere private but visible from a public place, such as a backyard facing a street or an open lot next to a sidewalk. The only carve-out in the text is a location designated as a restroom; the ordinance does not list any other exception, so it applies the same at a city park, a parking lot, a downtown alley, or the shoulder of a road.

Sec. 16-26 routes the penalty for this whole article through the citywide general penalty in Sec. 1-8 rather than setting its own fine schedule. That means the matter is handled as an ordinary misdemeanor prosecuted in Killeen Municipal Court, the same venue that handles the rest of Chapter 16's miscellaneous offenses, from noise complaints to weapons violations. A. Health and Safety Code Sec. cited beside Sec. 16-27, underscores that Chapter 16's Division 1 offenses were built around public health and sanitation concerns rather than pure nuisance, which is part of why a Sec. 16-28 charge can carry the elevated public-health penalty tier under Sec. 1-8(c) rather than the standard $500 cap.