Lewisville, TX Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

Article VI, Housing Standards, of Chapter 4 makes rodent and insect control a shared duty of property owners and occupants across all dwellings in Lewisville. Every owner is responsible for maintaining a building and its structure in a safe and sanitary condition (§ 4-173(b)), and where the director of the health and code enforcement division of the department of community development requires it, the owner must furnish and maintain approved devices, equipment, or facilities to prevent insect and rodent infestation; once an infestation occurs, the owner must exterminate it unless that duty has been specifically shifted to the occupant by law or ruling (§ 4-173(d)).

Occupants carry a parallel obligation: each occupant must keep the part of the dwelling or premises they occupy and control in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition, dispose of rubbish, garbage, and other organic waste as the Code and the director require, and furnish and maintain approved devices or equipment needed to keep their premises safe and sanitary when the article calls for it (§ 4-173(c), (e), (f)). The rule sits inside the housing standards article that also covers building maintenance, occupancy, and multi-family complexes, and the director of the building inspection division or a code official enforces it with the power of a law enforcement officer, including the right to enter a building or premises for inspection after presenting credentials or, if unoccupied, after a reasonable effort to locate the owner (§§ 4-171, 4-172).