Bill Text: TX SB98 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of raising or keeping six or fewer chickens by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Filed [SB98 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB98-Introduced.html
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| By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 98 | |
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| relating to the regulation of raising or keeping six or fewer | ||
| chickens by a political subdivision. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 251, Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 251. EFFECT OF NUISANCE ACTIONS AND GOVERNMENTAL | ||
| REQUIREMENTS ON CERTAIN [ |
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| SECTION 2. Chapter 251, Agriculture Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 251.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 251.007. SIX CHICKENS ALLOWED. (a) Notwithstanding | ||
| any other law and except as provided by Subsection (b), a political | ||
| subdivision may not impose a governmental requirement that | ||
| prohibits an individual from raising or keeping six or fewer | ||
| chickens in the boundaries of the political subdivision. | ||
| (b) A municipality may impose reasonable governmental | ||
| requirements on the raising or keeping of poultry in the boundaries | ||
| of the municipality 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 an individual may | ||
| raise or keep in excess of six; | ||
| (2) a prohibition on breeding poultry; | ||
| (3) a prohibition on raising or keeping roosters; or | ||
| (4) the minimum distance an individual must maintain | ||
| between a chicken coop and a residential structure. | ||
| (c) A governmental requirement adopted by a political | ||
| subdivision that violates Subsection (a) is void. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 251.007, Agriculture Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies to a governmental requirement adopted before, on, | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
