San Angelo, TX

San Angelo has no general overnight street-parking ban. Timed parking zones are enforced only from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Sec. 10.04.001), so overnight parking is allowed except where signs…

San Angelo declares junk vehicles visible from a public right-of-way a public nuisance (Sec. 8.03.011). After at least 10 days' notice and a municipal-court hearing, the city can tow…

In San Angelo residential districts, RVs, travel trailers, boats, and other vehicles may not be parked in a yard unless on an improved surface or screened behind a solidly opaque…

San Angelo requires vehicles in residential yards to be parked on an improved surface (concrete, asphalt, pavers, or compacted gravel) or screened behind a six-foot opaque fence (Sec…

San Angelo limits loading zones to one per city block, reserved for heavy or bulky freight loading, and caps use at 15 minutes per vehicle. The city manager designates zones, marks…

San Angelo prohibits stopping or parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, in front of driveways, on sidewalks, within intersections, and within 20 feet of a fire-station driveway…

San Angelo bans parking a commercial vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer, pole trailer, truck tractor, or recreational vehicle on any street or lot in a residential district, or on a street…

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…

San Angelo lets a household keep up to seven dogs without special paperwork. Once you cross that line the city classifies you a multi-pet owner: you need a permit from animal services…

San Angelo caps roosters at one adult male per property and bars keeping chickens, fowl, or rabbits within 100 feet of any neighbor's home or business, a setback that rules out…

San Angelo bans no dog breed. Texas Health and Safety Code section 822.047 forbids any city from adopting breed-specific dangerous-dog rules, so pit bulls and other breeds are legal…

San Angelo requires a dog to be leashed whenever it is walked outside a fenced yard, and its home area must be securely fenced. Tethering a dog as its primary enclosure is capped at…

San Angelo bans keeping "prohibited animals" under Code section 3.01.011, a list covering venomous reptiles, big cats, wolves, bears, primates, and more. Hamsters, guinea pigs…

Every dog and cat over four months old kept in San Angelo must be spayed or neutered unless the owner holds a breeder's permit. Six narrow exceptions cover health, competition, service…

San Angelo lets residents keep up to five bee hives anywhere, but six or more hives must sit at least 75 feet from any neighbor's home or business under Code section 3.01.009. Hives…

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…

Converting a garage to living space needs a building permit and must keep the required off-street parking. San Angelo expressly allows converting a detached garage into an accessory…

San Angelo caps a residential accessory building, including a shed or detached garage, at 600 square feet or 50 percent of the primary house's floor area, whichever is greater, under…

San Angelo allows one detached accessory apartment, sometimes called a garage apartment, on a single-family lot in the RS-2 or RM-1 zoning districts under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 401…

Texas has no tiny-home-specific statute. Any transportable, chassis-mounted dwelling that reaches 320 square feet is manufactured housing under Occupations Code Chapter 1201, built to…

San Angelo caps client and delivery traffic at a home business under Sec. 413 of the Zoning Ordinance: teaching, tutoring, counseling or treatment visits are limited to ten people a…

San Angelo lets residents run a home occupation by right in any dwelling, but Sec. 413 of the Zoning Ordinance caps it at 25% of the home's gross floor area, bars any exterior sign of…

A San Angelo home business can post exactly one sign, and it has to be non-illuminated and no larger than two square feet, per Sec. 413.A.7 of the Zoning Ordinance. Lighting, oversized…

San Angelo allows in-home childcare as a home occupation under Sec. 413.B.1.b of the Zoning Ordinance, but caps it at six children under 14, not counting the caregiver's own kids, plus…

Texas does not license cottage food at all. Health and Safety Code Section 437.0191(a) declares that a cottage food production operation is not a food service establishment, and…

San Angelo bans outdoor watering with treated, raw, greywater or reclaimed city water between noon and 6:00 p.m. every day from April through October under Code of Ordinances Sec…

San Angelo treats grass, weeds, or brush over 12 inches as a nuisance (Sec. 7.02.063). 'Brush' includes mesquite, greasewood, and cacti. Pasture, gardens, and remote large lots are…

San Angelo, reliant on reservoirs, encourages rainwater harvesting. Texas Property Code §202.007 voids any HOA covenant banning rain barrels or rainwater harvesting systems, though…

San Angelo's semi-arid climate favors drought-tolerant natives and xeriscaping. Texas Property Code §202.007 voids HOA bans on drought-resistant landscaping and water-conserving turf…

San Angelo requires no permit to remove a tree on your own private property. City council approval is required only to destroy trees in the downtown street right-of-way bounded by…

San Angelo puts tree and hedge trimming duty on whoever owns or occupies the property: Code of Ordinances Sec. 7.02.031 and 7.02.032 require branches over a sidewalk, street or alley…

San Angelo's STR ordinance sets no fixed maximum guest count. Section 406 instead scales required parking to rentable rooms, bars camping units on residential lots, and prohibits meal…

San Angelo requires every Bed and Breakfast or Short-Term Rental operator to post noise restrictions from Sec. 8.01.005 inside each unit, alongside the operator's name and phone…

Every short-term rental and bed and breakfast in San Angelo must provide at least two paved off-street parking spaces on-site, plus one more for each rentable guest room, under Zoning…

San Angelo permits short-term rentals under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 406. STRs are allowed by right where the Use Table permits; elsewhere they need Conditional Use approval from the…

Texas imposes a 6 percent state hotel occupancy tax on short-term rentals, including houses, condos, and Airbnb or VRBO stays, whenever a room costs 15 dollars or more per day.

San Angelo requires a police permit to operate vehicle-mounted amplified sound systems under Sec. 8.01.006. Other amplified music must comply with the general noise ordinance, Sec…

Persistent dog barking is handled as a noise disturbance under San Angelo Code Sec. 8.01.005 and through Animal Services. Barking that recurs three or more times in ten days is prima…

San Angelo bans unnecessary, loud, unusual, or prolonged noise under Code Sec. 8.01.005. Noise between 10:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or occurring three or more times in ten days, is prima…

San Angelo bans the sale, possession, and discharge of fireworks citywide under Code of Ordinances Sec. 6.04.002, extending the prohibition 5,000 feet beyond city limits. Anyone who…

San Angelo strictly limits open burning. Ground fires are prohibited (Sec. 6.06.005), open burning must stay 350 feet from structures, and burning construction materials, trash, or…

San Angelo's amended Residential Code spells out exactly where smoke alarms must go: every sleeping room, outside each sleeping area, on every additional story, and set back from…

San Angelo has no formal wildfire hazard zone map or defensible-space ordinance like California's. Wildfire risk in this drought-prone West Texas region is managed through the 12-inch…

San Angelo makes it unlawful to let grass, weeds, or brush grow taller than 12 inches on any lot (Sec. 7.02.063). After a 7-day notice the city abates overgrowth and files a lien for…

San Angelo permits recreational fires and fire pits but limits fuel to 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet high (Sec. 6.06.002). Fires in approved containers must sit at least 15 feet from…

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…

San Angelo sets fence height through its zoning ordinance, but the hard, enforced rule is the corner sight triangle: nothing between two and nine feet tall may sit in the 30-by-30-foot…

A residential fence in San Angelo needs no building permit unless it stands over seven feet, under the city's adopted 2021 International Residential Code. Anyone hired to build it must…

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…

San Angelo requires a safety barrier around residential pools under its adopted 2021 building codes, and Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 757 sets enclosure standards for apartment…

Texas law bars any homeowners' association from prohibiting solar panels. San Angelo HOAs may set only limited, reasonable placement conditions and cannot ban rooftop solar outright…

San Angelo requires every food establishment to follow the Texas Food Establishment Rules, 25 TAC chapter 228, which the city adopts wholesale under section 7.06.002. The San…

San Angelo puts the duty to build and keep up sidewalks on the abutting property owner, not the city. Code of Ordinances sec. 4.08.171 requires every real estate owner to build…

Anyone who wants to place a canopy, awning, fence, sign, landscaping or other structure on, above or below a San Angelo public right-of-way must apply to Planning and Development…

San Angelo bans obstructing sidewalks, streets and rights-of-way without city approval. Merchants may display goods no more than 24 inches onto a sidewalk under section 8.05.001, and…

Groups that want to hold a fundraiser or organized event on San Angelo park property need city council authorization under section 9.01.051, and the council can grant temporary…

San Angelo requires a written permit from the chief of police before any parade, procession, or public event can occupy, march, or proceed along a city street. Sec. 10.05.001 makes…

Selling goods or taking orders from a stand, trailer, or vehicle on a San Angelo street, alley, sidewalk, or city park, including at a street fair or festival, requires a permit under…

San Angelo's zoning ordinance lets restaurants, bars and taverns add outdoor seating, but caps the noise it can generate at 45 decibels overnight and 55 decibels during the day…

San Angelo requires a police-approved permit before any parade, procession, or street event, including a block party that closes a street to vehicles, can occupy or proceed along a…

San Angelo bans riding a skateboard, scooter, bicycle, or roller skates on any park playground under section 9.01.016(b)(8). Dedicated skate parks operate under their own posted rules…

San Angelo bans lying, sitting, loitering, standing, or soliciting for any purpose in any city median, and in intersections, underpasses, or under bridges along US Highway 277, US…

San Angelo bars anyone from stepping into a public street to solicit a ride, a job, business, or donations from vehicle occupants, and bars standing near a street to solicit watching…

San Angelo bans smoking in specific outdoor areas the city owns or operates: sports arena and stadium seating, golf course and park seating during events, inside pool enclosures, and…

San Angelo bans selling, consuming or possessing alcohol anywhere in the Texas Bank Sports Complex (Rio Concho Sports Complex), including its fenced quadrangles, picnic areas and…

San Angelo requires pedestrians to cross at right angles or use a crosswalk, and bars crossing anywhere except a crosswalk between two intersections with working signals. A pedestrian…

San Angelo treats an unrepaired leak as a water-waste violation, not just a billing problem. Code of Ordinances Sec. 11.05.002(6) makes "failure to repair a controllable leak"…

San Angelo will not let a repair shop of any kind operate as a home occupation. Sec. 413.B.2.d of the Zoning Ordinance excludes 'any form of repair shop' from the home occupation…

San Angelo requires every adult entertainment enterprise to sit at least 1,000 feet from a church, school or another adult entertainment enterprise, and at least 500 feet from any…

San Angelo requires every secondhand goods dealer, including pawnbrokers, junk and salvage dealers and flea market vendors, to keep a chief-of-police-approved daily transaction ledger…

San Angelo bars wreckers from driving to a crash scene unless police or public safety communications called them, bans street-level solicitation of towing business, and routes any…

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…

San Angelo allows mobile food units by right in every commercial and manufacturing zoning district, the Central Business District, Office-Warehouse districts, and anywhere industrial…

San Angelo caps a mobile food unit's stay in the public right-of-way at 12 hours per location, unless an approved special event or street closure permit extends it. Vendors also cannot…

San Angelo requires every mobile food unit to hold a City food establishment permit under Sec. 7.06.031 and to follow the siting rules in Sec. 419 of the Zoning Ordinance: no more than…

San Angelo requires a permit and fee for any building, structure or alteration governed by its adopted construction codes. The city has adopted the 2021 International Building Code…

San Angelo requires a permit for plumbing work, adopts the 2021 International Plumbing Code, and lets homeowners pull their own permit for their homestead. Emergency repairs can start…

San Angelo requires an electrical permit for wiring work, enforces the 2020 National Electrical Code, and reserves homeowner permits to owner-occupants of non-rental single-family…

San Angelo's amended Residential Code requires a carbon monoxide alarm outside each sleeping area, and inside the bedroom itself if a fuel-burning appliance sits in that bedroom or its…

In mapped flood hazard areas, San Angelo requires new and substantially improved homes to elevate their lowest floor at least two feet above the base flood elevation under Code of…

San Angelo requires every construction site that drains to the storm sewer system to control erosion under Code of Ordinances Sec. 11.03.042. Operators must use best management…

San Angelo participates in the National Flood Insurance Program and enforces floodplain development standards under Article 12.05 of its Code, with the City Engineer serving as…

San Angelo regulates stormwater and drainage under Code of Ordinances Article 12.05, covering any development or redevelopment of one acre or more that increases impervious cover by 5…

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…

Snow is rare in San Angelo, and the city has no snow-removal ordinance. Property owners must instead keep sidewalks clear of overhanging trees and encroaching hedges and shrubbery…

San Angelo prohibits accumulations of junk, debris, and unsightly matter and unsanitary conditions on any property under Article 7.02. Owners get seven days after notice to fix…

Vacant-lot owners in San Angelo must keep grass, weeds, and brush under 12 inches and free of junk and dumping. The city gives seven days after notice, then mows or clears the lot and…

San Angelo collects bulk items curbside on your garbage day, alternating every other week with recycling. The limit is five cubic yards, about a pickup-bed load or 15 bags of yard…

San Angelo makes weekly trash service mandatory: Code of Ordinances Sec. A8.017(a) requires every residential customer to subscribe to the city's licensed garbage collection service…

Every residential customer in San Angelo must subscribe to the city's contracted solid waste service under Code of Ordinances Sec. 11.04.031 and use the recycling cart that provider…

No hauler may commercially empty or transport a dumpster or roll-off container on San Angelo's streets and alleys for hire without a written permit from the solid waste administrator…

San Angelo requires residential trash and recycling carts to be stored out of sight between pickups and set out on a strict schedule: Code of Ordinances Sec. 11.04.031 says carts…

San Angelo caps outdoor lighting at 0.25 footcandles measured at a property line next to a home, and every luminaire must be shielded so its beam stays below three feet in height at…

San Angelo caps light at a residential property line at 0.05 foot-candles and bars any light beam directed across a boundary above three feet, prohibiting glare that becomes a…

San Angelo has no heritage or landmark tree program and sets no diameter-based protection for private trees. The city's tree authority covers right-of-way and public trees outside…

San Angelo cannot require a permit, charge a fee, or restrict the size of a political sign placed on private property with the owner's consent, up to 36 square feet and eight feet…

San Angelo garage sale signs are temporary signs needing no permit, but they may not be placed in the public right-of-way or on utility poles. Sales are limited to three per year…

San Angelo sets no time limits or permit requirements on residential holiday decorations. The sign code expressly exempts holiday and celebration decorations not used for advertising…

San Angelo bans flashing or full-motion digital billboards outright and keeps every electronic message billboard 125 feet from residential district lines under Code of Ordinances Sec…

San Angelo classifies a painted or cloth-and-paper window sign advertising a temporary sale or promotion as a temporary sign under Code of Ordinances Sec. 12.04.008(a)(5). Since the…

San Angelo allows no more than three garage or occasional sales per year by the same property owner or on the same premises, and each sale may last a maximum of three consecutive…

San Angelo's zoning ordinance sets minimum yards by district. RS-1 and RS-2 single-family lots require a 25-foot front yard, 5-foot side yards on each side, and a 20-foot rear yard…

San Angelo's open burning ordinance exempts cooking grills from the burn-permit rules entirely, then steers residents toward a specific fuel choice: Code of Ordinances Sec. 6.06.003…

San Angelo confines all licensed door-to-door solicitation to 9:00 a.m. through 7:30 p.m., meaning any licensed peddler, itinerant merchant or salesperson who knocks outside those…

San Angelo requires anyone going house to house selling, soliciting or taking orders, plus every itinerant merchant, to first obtain a police-issued license, valid up to six months…

San Angelo cannot pass its own drone rules. Texas Government Code §423.009 preempts local drone ordinances. Recreational flyers follow FAA rules: register drones over 0.55 lb, stay…

Commercial drone pilots in San Angelo need an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. Texas Government Code §423.009 blocks the city from adding its own operating rules, though state…

Texas law lets San Angelo's city council adopt rent control only after finding a housing emergency caused by a declared disaster and securing the governor's approval. Absent that…

Texas gives San Angelo tenants no just-cause eviction protection. A landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy or decline renewal without stating a reason, after at least three days'…

San Angelo makes it unlawful to occupy a structure that lacks working sewage disposal, a connected toilet, potable water, a kitchen sink, bathtub or shower, or electric service. These…

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 § 92.019 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…

San Angelo levies a 7 percent hotel occupancy tax on any room costing $2.00 or more per day, collected by the operator and remitted monthly to the city's Director of Finance under Code…

San Angelo bans camping on any municipal facility or public right-of-way, including sidewalks, streets, alleys, and parks, under Code of Ordinances Article 9.05. Camping overnight…

San Angelo parks are open sunrise to sunset daily unless posted otherwise. Park playgrounds are closed to everyone between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and overnight stays require a…

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…

San Angelo lets the city manager establish painted or marked bicycle lanes once council adopts a bicycle plan, and bars motor vehicles from driving in them except to cross to 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…

Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 487 limits cannabis dispensing to state-licensed Compassionate Use Program providers: expanded to as many as 15 organizations by HB 46 (2025). There…

Texas Health & Safety Code 481.121 makes it a crime to possess or grow marijuana anywhere in the state. Home cultivation is illegal in every Texas city and county regardless of plant…

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 §…

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…

A Texas HOA enforces its recorded restrictive covenants (Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 202), but Chapter 209 controls the procedure: § 209.006 requires certified-mail notice and a cure…

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…

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…