Brazoria County, TX Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

1 as land split into two or more spaces rented, leased or offered for lease for less than sixty months without a purchase option. Under § 4, the owner must submit an infrastructure development plan to the County Engineer covering the surveyed boundaries, proposed space locations, utility and drainage easements, right-of-way dedications, FEMA 100-year flood plain areas, a water supply meeting Health and Safety Code Chapter 341 Subchapter C, sewage service meeting Chapter 366 and 30 TAC Chapter 285, road access built to the Brazoria County Subdivision Regulations, and drainage designed to the county's Drainage Criteria Manual.

Section 5 gives the County Engineer sixty days from submittal to approve or reject the plan in writing; a plan not rejected inside that window is deemed approved. Section 6 controls construction itself: work may not begin until the plan is approved, the Engineer inspects ongoing construction as he or she deems appropriate, and once the owner confirms completion in writing the Engineer must perform a final inspection within two business days. A compliant community gets a certificate of compliance within five business days of that final inspection; a non-compliant one instead gets a written list of the non-complying elements on the same five-day clock.

Section 7 gives the certificate teeth: municipalities, municipally owned utilities, public utilities, nonprofit water or sewer corporations organized under Water Code Chapter 67, counties, and special districts are all barred from turning on water, sewer, gas or electric service to the community or any home in it until the owner hands over that certificate.