Round Rock, TX

Round Rock caps outdoor irrigation to one or two fixed days per week based on your address, and only before 10 a.m. or after 7 p.m., under a year-round Stage 1 drought contingency rule.

Round Rock caps weeds, brush, and grass at 12 inches on occupied lots and any lot within 150 feet of one under City Code § 14-179. Taller growth is a declared nuisance; the city mows…

Round Rock protects trees eight inches in diameter or larger under Chapter 8, Article III of the Zoning and Development Code. Removing a protected tree during development requires a…

Round Rock's zoning code lets new single-family lots cover half their yard in drought-tolerant turfgrass, but artificial turf can't be used to satisfy that landscaping requirement…

Drought-resistant and native landscaping is protected statewide. Property Code Section 202.007 stops an HOA from banning water-conserving plantings, and since September 2025 an HOA…

Rainwater harvesting is protected statewide. A Williamson County HOA cannot prohibit rain barrels or a rainwater collection system, and the county encourages it. Property Code Section…

Round Rock bans car stereos, radios, and amplified sound equipment that is plainly audible 200 feet or more from the source's property line. Vehicular music amplification that causes a…

Round Rock caps outdoor sound at 55 dB(A) in residential zones by day, 50 dB(A) at night, and 80 dB(A) daytime / 75 dB(A) nighttime in commercial and industrial zones, measured 200…

Downtown Round Rock outdoor music venues must hold a permit and keep sound under 80 decibels during permitted hours, 60 decibels after.

Round Rock Code Chapter 14, Article VIII establishes time-based quiet hours and uses a 'plainly audible' standard. Quiet hours run 10 PM–7 AM on weekdays and 10 PM–8 AM on weekends.

Round Rock Chapter 14 and Chapter 4 (Animals) address barking dogs as a public nuisance. Persistent barking that unreasonably disturbs neighbors is enforceable by Animal Services and…

Unincorporated Williamson County sets no construction-hour limits; counties can't regulate work times. Early or late construction noise is actionable only if unreasonable under Tex…

Round Rock limits backyard fowl to five birds when the coop sits between 25 and 50 feet from a neighbor's home, rising to ten birds beyond 50 feet, under City Code § 8-6.

Round Rock has no breed-specific legislation (BSL). All dog breeds are treated equally under Chapter 4. Dogs are regulated based on behavior, not breed.

Round Rock follows Texas state law on dangerous wild animals. Big cats, bears, coyotes, and certain reptiles are prohibited as pets. The zoning code also restricts livestock in…

Round Rock requires all dogs to be restrained or on a leash when off the owner's property. Chapter 4 of the Code of Ordinances governs animal control. Dogs at large are subject to…

Round Rock permits urban beekeeping subject to setback and hive limits under the zoning code. Hives must be registered with the Texas Apiary Inspection Service.

Texas has no standalone hoarding statute; officers use Health & Safety Code Chapter 821 to seize animals deprived of necessary food, care, or shelter, and a court can divest the owner…

Texas lets hunters bait and feed game animals, including deer, on private property statewide. Baiting is unlawful on most public land, for wild turkey in the East Zone, and for all…

An illegally parked or junked vehicle on a Round Rock residential lot is declared a public nuisance, triggering a police notice and a 72-hour deadline to remove it or request a…

Round Rock bars loading and unloading from collector and arterial street rights-of-way, and requires every commercial building's loading spaces to be planned, sized, and shown on the…

Round Rock restricts commercial vehicle and heavy equipment parking in residential zones. Large commercial trucks and equipment may not be regularly stored on residential streets or in…

Round Rock allows residential street parking subject to standard restrictions. Vehicles must face the direction of traffic, park no closer than 15 feet from an intersection, and may…

Texas Occupations Code chapter 2308 sets the statewide rules for nonconsent towing and vehicle booting. A vehicle owner has 14 business days to demand a hearing in the justice court…

Short-term rental owners in Round Rock must register annually with the city, pay a $35 initial fee (or $25 to renew before Jan. 1), and remit a combined 9% hotel occupancy and venue…

Round Rock does not publish a fixed numeric occupancy cap per bedroom for short-term rentals. STR applicants must submit a detailed floor plan showing sleeping arrangements and…

STR operators in Round Rock must collect Texas state Hotel Occupancy Tax (6%) plus Round Rock's local HOT. Combined tax applies to all rentals under 30 days.

Round Rock applies standard residential parking rules to STR properties. Guest vehicles must not block driveways, sidewalks, or fire hydrants. Street parking follows city-wide rules.

STR guests are bound by the same state law as everyone else: unreasonable noise near a residence is disorderly conduct under Tex. Penal Code §42.01, a Class C misdemeanor up to $500…

Round Rock requires a building permit before constructing any residential swimming pool, spa, or hot tub, with construction plans and a property survey submitted through the city's…

Round Rock follows Texas Health & Safety Code §757 for pool barrier requirements. A minimum 48-inch fence with self-latching, self-closing gates is required around all residential…

Round Rock home occupation permits allow one small non-illuminated nameplate sign. Signs may not exceed 1 square foot and must not be lit. Commercial signage is not permitted in…

Operating a child-care home for pay in Williamson County requires a license, registration, or listing from Texas Health and Human Services under Human Resources Code Chapter 42. The…

Texas cottage food law lets you sell approved home-produced foods from a Williamson County home with no permit, license, or health inspection. Annual food sales are capped at $150,000…

Fireworks are banned within Round Rock city limits. The city enforces a strict prohibition on the sale, possession, and discharge of fireworks regardless of Texas state seasonal…

Texas assigns no regulatory wildfire hazard zones and no wildland-urban-interface building code to unincorporated Williamson County; drought burn bans by the Commissioners Court are…

Propane and gas fire pits burn year-round in unincorporated Williamson County and stay legal even during a county burn ban; wood recreational fires are prohibited whenever the…

Outdoor burning is prohibited statewide under 30 TAC 111.201 except for allowed disposal fires; unincorporated Williamson County residents may burn household waste where no trash…

Selling, transporting, dispensing, or storing propane (LP-gas) in Texas requires a license from the Railroad Commission of Texas under Natural Resources Code Chapter 113. Only the…

Round Rock limits fence height to 6 feet in rear and side yards, and 4 feet in front yards. Zoning Code Ch. 8, Art. IV (§8-35) governs fence location and height.

Under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 143, Subchapter F, you cannot tear out a fence you jointly own with a neighbor, or one attached to a neighbor's fence, without mutual consent. To…

Unincorporated Williamson County neither zones nor permits garage conversions. Converting a garage into living space with a bathroom triggers an on-site sewage (OSSF) review under…

A tiny home on wheels is titled as a travel trailer under Texas Transportation Code Section 501.002 and is not used as a permanent dwelling. A tiny home on a foundation with plumbing…

Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated Williamson County sets no ADU size, setback, or occupancy limit. An accessory dwelling with plumbing requires an on-site sewage (OSSF)…

Round Rock adopts the International Building Code, so no one may construct, alter, move, or demolish a structure without first obtaining a permit from the city's Building Inspections…

Round Rock caps window signage in its Downtown Special Area at 50% of window area per building elevation, and bars internal illumination except for a 2-square-foot incidental sign such…

Round Rock's sign code bars new off-premises signs and billboards citywide, including digital billboards, unless a narrow code exception applies; only one legacy digital billboard…

Williamson County has no ordinance regulating holiday lights, inflatables, or yard displays in unincorporated areas: those fall to HOA deed restrictions. Property Code §202.018 blocks…

Political signs are protected on private property in unincorporated Williamson County. The county has no sign ordinance, and Election Code §259.003 blocks any local sign rule that…

Garage-sale signs face no county rule on your own property in unincorporated Williamson County: the county has no sign ordinance. But Transportation Code §393.002 makes it illegal to…

Round Rock requires an erosion and sedimentation control plan for any permitted construction, and a full Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan once a project disturbs more than one…

Round Rock requires any structure built on a lot within or adjacent to the 100-year floodplain to have its finished floor slab set at least one foot above the 100-year flood level…

Round Rock requires all new drainage systems to handle the 25-year storm in curbs and storm sewers, with the citywide system built to convey up to a 100-year event.

Williamson County participates in the National Flood Insurance Program and enforces floodplain development permits in unincorporated areas. Any construction, fill, or improvement in a…

Texas prohibits damaging, destroying, or removing a sand dune or its vegetation seaward of a dune protection line or within a critical dune area unless a permit authorizes the work…

Round Rock requires a $150 building permit for residential solar panel installations, with engineer-stamped one-line drawings and a signed torque letter before final inspection.

Texas law bars a property owners' association from prohibiting solar energy devices. Williamson County HOAs like Sun City and Cimarron Hills may set reasonable placement conditions but…

Round Rock requires weekly curbside collection for every residential property, with carts due at the curb by 7 a.m. on pickup day and pulled back in by 7 p.m. the next day.

Round Rock requires residential customers to keep their city-issued recycling cart at the curb by 7 a.m. every other week, and a cart damaged through abuse or neglect gets billed back…

Round Rock requires curbside brush to be piled loose, not bundled, with limbs no longer than 10 feet, or dropped off free at the city's Brush Recycling Center.

Round Rock requires residents to place garbage carts at the curb before 7 a.m. on collection day, closed and spaced three feet apart with wheels facing the curb.

Round Rock lets in-city residents schedule one free bulk trash pickup per year through Republic Services, capped at 5 cubic yards of furniture, appliances, and scrap metal set curbside…

Williamson County runs no municipal trash collection in unincorporated areas. Households contract a private subscription hauler directly. Under Tex. Health & Safety Code §364.011, the…

Round Rock confines mobile food trucks to approved host sites: commercial or industrial lots with an active business, event centers, municipal parks, HOA common areas, and MU-1/MU-2…

Round Rock requires an MFE Zoning Review approval for every host site before a food truck can operate, plus current Fire Marshal and DSHS inspection stickers for each unit.

Operating a food truck in Round Rock takes three approvals: a Texas DSHS mobile food vendor license (mandatory statewide since July 1, 2026), a current Fire Marshal inspection sticker…

Round Rock requires a sexually oriented business permit from the director of planning, and the site must sit at least 1,000 feet from any dwelling, church, school, public park, child…

Anyone selling e-cigarettes to Texas consumers must hold an e-cigarette retailer permit issued by the Comptroller, obtained for each place of business under Health and Safety Code…

Round Rock's development code requires outdoor light fixtures to sit fully recessed in opaque housing, capping residential property-line light at 0.5 foot-candles and mandating extra…

Williamson County has no dark-sky lighting ordinance for private property. Texas has no general outdoor-lighting statute; Health and Safety Code Chapter 425 covers only state-funded…

Round Rock has no by-right zoning category for data centers; siting requires a case-by-case Planned Unit Development rezoning approved by City Council, as seen in the…

Round Rock police run 30 Flock Safety cameras approved by council in 2022, with data auto-deleted after 30 days and stolen-vehicle alerts shared automatically with other regional…

Round Rock's development code requires all new sod and turfgrass to be a drought-tolerant species, capped at 50% of the pervious lot area: a citywide standard that Texas Property Code…

Under the Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act, unpaid assessments become a lien (Tex. Prop. Code § 209.0094), but a Texas HOA may not foreclose that lien without first…

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs residential subdivision homeowners associations, not condominium associations and not associations that are themselves subject to the Public…

Property Code Section 202.007 voids any homeowners association rule that bans drought-resistant landscaping or water-conserving natural turf, and Section 202.008 bars fines for a brown…

Texas Property Code section 202.012 stops homeowners associations from banning display of the U.S. flag, the Texas flag, or an official U.S. armed forces flag. An association can…

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs HOA fines, but only for mandatory-membership subdivisions; condos fall under Chapter 82 instead. State law sets no dollar cap on a fine, only a…

A Texas property owners' association cannot sell your home at a trustee's sale the way a mortgage lender can. Tex. Prop. Code Section 209.0092 requires the association to obtain a…

Texas Property Code Section 209.016 sets no cap on how much of a subdivision an association can rent out, no minimum lease term, and no grandfather clause: a declaration can still ban…

Round Rock requires peddlers to get a police-issued ID card before selling door-to-door; canvassers and solicitors can get one voluntarily.

Williamson County runs no no-knock registry, but a posted "No Soliciting" or "No Trespassing" sign carries legal force: entering after notice that entry is forbidden is criminal…

Round Rock operates no red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bars every local authority from installing or running a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, a…

Texas lets golf carts onto public roads in four defined situations rather than by general permission: inside a platted master planned community, on a beach open to vehicular traffic…

Williamson County sets no lot-coverage or impervious-surface limit. Texas counties cannot zone. Coverage caps in unincorporated areas come from HOA deed restrictions and drainage rules…

Williamson County sets no setback rules. Texas counties have no zoning power. Only subdivision platting under Local Government Code Chapter 232 applies, and in platted subdivisions HOA…

Williamson County sets no building height limit. Texas counties lack zoning authority, so height caps in unincorporated areas exist only through HOA deed restrictions. Cities like…

Williamson County parks are open 7:30 AM to 10 PM year-round; Berry Springs Park and Preserve opens at 7 AM. Being in a county park after closing is prohibited. The county sets park…

Texas HB 1819 (88th Legislature, 2023), codified at Local Government Code 370.008 (originally 370.007), prohibits all Texas municipalities and counties from adopting or enforcing…

Rent control does not exist in unincorporated Williamson County. Texas Local Government Code §214.902 bars any city or county from capping rent unless a declared disaster triggers an…

Texas has no just-cause eviction rule. A landlord in unincorporated Williamson County may end a tenancy without stating a reason. Property Code §24.005 requires only a three-day…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005, a Texas landlord must give a defaulting or holdover tenant at least three days' written notice to vacate before filing a forcible detainer (eviction)…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.052 a landlord must make a diligent effort to repair conditions that materially affect an ordinary tenant's health or safety after proper notice. Section…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.019 a residential late fee must be reasonable and may be charged only if written in the lease and the rent stays unpaid two full days after due. A fee is…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by giving notice, and the tenancy ends on the later of the date in the notice or one month after notice is…

Texas places no statutory limit on how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit. However, the landlord must refund the deposit within 30 days after the tenant surrenders the…

In Texas a squatter can claim title only through adverse possession, with periods that shorten as the claim strengthens: 3 years under title or color of title (§ 16.024), 5 years with…

There are no marijuana dispensaries to zone in Williamson County; retail cannabis sale is illegal statewide. The only lawful outlets are licensed low-THC medical dispensers under the…

Growing marijuana at home is illegal everywhere in Texas, including unincorporated Williamson County. Possessing usable marijuana is a crime under Health and Safety Code Section…

In unincorporated Williamson County, junked vehicles, accumulated rubbish, and dilapidated buildings are public nuisances under Tex. Health & Safety Code §343.011. The Commissioners…

Overgrown weeds on a vacant lot in unincorporated Williamson County are a public nuisance under Tex. Health & Safety Code §343.011(c)(4) when they grow within 300 feet of a residence…

Texas Government Code Chapter 423 occupies the field of unmanned aircraft regulation. Cities and counties cannot adopt their own recreational drone ordinances, though limited municipal…

Texas Labor Code Section 62.0515 expressly preempts municipal and county minimum wage ordinances. The state minimum wage equals the federal floor of $7.25 per hour, and political…

Texas appellate courts have struck down municipal paid sick leave ordinances in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio as preempted under the Texas Minimum Wage Act. HB 2127 (2023) further…

Texas authorizes License to Carry (LTC) holders to carry concealed handguns statewide under Government Code Chapter 411. Since 2021, permitless constitutional carry under HB 1927 also…

Texas Local Government Code Section 229.001 broadly preempts municipal regulation of firearms, ammunition, knives, and related accessories. Cities cannot adopt or enforce ordinances…

Texas authorizes open carry of holstered handguns statewide for adults 21 and older under Penal Code 46.02 and HB 910 (2015). Long guns may be openly carried subject to disorderly…

Texas Penal Code 46.02(a-1) lets any non-prohibited adult carry a handgun inside a personally-owned or leased motor vehicle or watercraft without a License to Carry. Since HB 1927…

Texas nonprofits can conduct bingo only under a license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which absorbed the Texas Lottery Commission's charitable bingo program on…

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 234, Subchapter E lets any county's commissioners court license, zone, and inspect "game rooms": for-profit businesses with six or more skill or…

Texas Penal Code § 47.02(a) makes betting at cards, dice, or any game of chance a Class C misdemeanor. Section 47.02(b) supplies a defense: gambling that happens in a private place…

Texas licenses no retail sportsbook and no betting app. Placing a wager on the outcome of a game, contest, or a player's performance is a criminal offense under Penal Code §…

The Texas Legislature has authorized exactly one vehicle checkpoint program, and it has nothing to do with alcohol. Government Code Section 411.0095 lets the Department of Public…

Texas has never enacted an express statutory right to film police, so the legal boundary for a bystander with a phone is set by the offense of Interference with Public Duties, Texas…

Texas Penal Code Section 38.02 makes it a crime to refuse your name, residence address, or date of birth only after a peace officer has already lawfully arrested you. Being detained on…

No Texas statute obliges a driver to consent to a vehicle search, and none requires an officer to warn you that you may refuse. What Texas law does require is a paper trail: Article…

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 212 and Agriculture Code Chapter 251 limit municipal authority to zone or regulate land qualified for agricultural use appraisal. Counties have no…

The Texas Right to Farm Act, Agriculture Code Chapter 251, protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits and local regulations after one year of operation. HB…

The Texas Supreme Court in City of Laredo v. Laredo Merchants Association (2018) held that Health and Safety Code Section 361.0961 preempts municipal plastic bag bans. Cities and…

Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 161 sets the minimum age for purchasing or possessing tobacco and e-cigarette products at 21 statewide, aligned with federal Tobacco 21. Active…

Texas regulates extra lighting by color, count, height and aim rather than by naming underglow. Transportation Code Section 547.305 bars any lamp showing red from directly in front of…

Texas grants no square inches of windshield to a camera. Transportation Code Section 547.613(a)(1) makes it a misdemeanor to operate a vehicle with an object or material placed on or…

Texas banned motorcycle lane splitting in plain words on September 1, 2023. Transportation Code Section 545.0605(a)(3)(B), added by House Bill 4122 of the 88th Legislature, says the…

Texas outlaws license plate covers in Transportation Code Section 504.945(a)(7), which makes it an offense to display a plate carrying a coating, covering, protective substance or…

Texas does not prohibit owning, mounting or using a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The one radar offense in the vehicle equipment chapter, Transportation Code Section…

Texas is one of the states that never wrote a studded tire calendar. Transportation Code Section 547.612(c) is the whole of the law: a tire on a moving vehicle may not carry a block…

Texas allows film down to 25 percent light transmission on both front side windows and on the windshield strip, with a matching ceiling of 25 percent luminous reflectance, and it sets…