Bill Text: TX SB1620 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of raising or keeping six or fewer chickens by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1620 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1620-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 1620 | |
(Flynn, Leach, Isaac) | ||
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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 September 1, 2017. |