Bill Text: TX SB326 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality or a property owners' association to regulate the raising or keeping of chickens.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Local Government [SB326 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB326-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 326 |
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relating to the authority of a municipality or a property owners' | ||
association to regulate the raising or keeping of chickens. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 217, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER D. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATORY AUTHORITY | ||
Sec. 217.061. SIX CHICKENS ALLOWED ON SINGLE-FAMILY | ||
RESIDENTIAL LOT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as | ||
provided by Subsection (b), a municipality may not adopt or enforce | ||
an ordinance that prohibits the raising or keeping of six or fewer | ||
chickens on a single-family residential lot. | ||
(b) A municipality may impose reasonable regulations on the | ||
raising or keeping of poultry on a single-family residential lot | ||
that do not have the effect of prohibiting the raising or keeping of | ||
six or fewer chickens, including: | ||
(1) a limit on the number of chickens that may be | ||
raised or kept in excess of six; | ||
(2) a prohibition on breeding poultry; | ||
(3) a prohibition on raising or keeping roosters; or | ||
(4) the minimum distance between a chicken coop and a | ||
residential structure. | ||
(c) An ordinance adopted by a municipality that violates | ||
Subsection (a) is void. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 202.024 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 202.024. SIX CHICKENS ALLOWED ON SINGLE-FAMILY | ||
RESIDENTIAL LOT. (a) Notwithstanding Section 202.002(a), this | ||
section applies only to a restrictive covenant created on or after | ||
September 1, 2023. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by | ||
Subsection (c), a property owners' association may not adopt or | ||
enforce a restrictive covenant that prohibits the raising or | ||
keeping of six or fewer chickens on a single-family residential | ||
lot. | ||
(c) A property owners' association may adopt and enforce a | ||
restrictive covenant imposing reasonable requirements on the | ||
raising or keeping of poultry on a single-family residential lot | ||
that do not have the effect of prohibiting the raising or keeping of | ||
six or fewer chickens, including: | ||
(1) a limit on the number of chickens that may be | ||
raised or kept in excess of six; | ||
(2) a prohibition on breeding poultry; | ||
(3) a prohibition on raising or keeping roosters; or | ||
(4) the minimum distance between a chicken coop and | ||
another lot. | ||
(d) A provision that violates Subsection (b) is void. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |