Kyle, TX Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)
Key Facts
- Scope
- Mobile home parks (licensed under Art. V)
- Standard applied
- Set by the city health director
- Debris duty
- No accumulation that shelters rodents
- Vegetation duty
- Control brush, weeds, grass; no heavy undergrowth
- Inspecting officials
- Health officer, building official, fire chief
- Max fine
- $2,000 per day (health/sanitation tier)
Summary
In the City of Kyle, this pest rule covers mobile home parks rather than every property citywide. Parks must stay free of insect and rodent harborage, following extermination standards set by the city health director. Owners must clear debris that could shelter rodents and control brush, weeds, and grass so they don't harbor pests, with public-health violations punishable by up to $2,000 a day.
Whenever in this Code ... an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor ... and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation ... shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00. However, a fine or penalty for the violation of a rule, ordinance or police regulation that governs fire safety, zoning or public health and sanitation, including dumping of refuse, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $2,000.00. ... Grounds, buildings and structures shall be maintained free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination methods and other measures to control insects and rodents shall conform with the requirements of the city health director and as follows: (1) Parks shall be maintained free of accumulation of debris which may provide rodent harborage or breeding places for flies, mosquitoes and other pests. (2) The growth of brush, weeds and grass shall be controlled to prevent harborage of noxious insects or other pests. Parks shall be so maintained as to prevent the growth of noxious weeds detrimental to health. Open areas shall be maintained free of heavy undergrowth of any description.
Full Breakdown
Kyle City Code § 8-188, titled 'Inspect and rodent control,' requires that grounds, buildings, and structures in a mobile home park be maintained free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation, and ties extermination methods to standards set by the city health director. Two specific duties follow: subsection (1) requires parks to stay free of accumulation of debris which may provide rodent harborage or breeding places for flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and subsection (2) requires control of the growth of brush, weeds and grass to prevent harborage of noxious insects or other pests, adding that open areas must stay free of heavy undergrowth.
This sits alongside § 8-187's refuse rules, which require flytight, watertight, rodentproof containers at each mobile home site or centralized dumpsters serviced at least twice a week, so the pest-control duty and the trash-storage duty work together to keep a park from breeding rodents. The city health officer has inspection authority under § 8-152 alongside the building official, fire chief, and tax assessor-collector, and can enter the property at reasonable times to check compliance. Kyle's reviewed Code does not print a matching rodent-control ordinance for single-family lots or apartment complexes outside a licensed mobile home park, so this specific duty is scoped to that housing type.
Violations & Fines
Article V sets no separate fine for a rodent-control violation, so an uncorrected § 8-188 problem is punished under the Code's general penalty at § 1-14. Most Code violations cap at a fine of not more than $500.00, but § 1-14(a) raises that ceiling to a fine of not more than $2,000.00 for a violation of a rule governing public health and sanitation, and each day the condition continues is charged as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Kyle require rodent control at mobile home parks?
What specifically must a park owner do to prevent rodents?
Who inspects for rodent problems in Kyle's mobile home parks?
Does this rodent rule apply to regular houses in Kyle?
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