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Fort Worth, TX Code of Ordinances
FORT WORTH, TEXAS CODE OF ORDINANCES
OFFICIALS of the CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
PART I: THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH
PART II: CITY CODE
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 2.5: RETIREMENT
CHAPTER 3: AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT
CHAPTER 4: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 5: AMBULANCES/EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
CHAPTER 6: ANIMALS AND FOWL
CHAPTER 7: BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 8: CABLE COMMUNICATION SERVICE
CHAPTER 9: COMMUNITY FACILITIES AGREEMENTS
CHAPTER 10: COURTS
CHAPTER 11: ELECTRICITY
CHAPTER 11.5: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 12: EMERGENCY REPORTING EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 12.5: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMPLIANCE
CHAPTER 13: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 14: RESERVED
CHAPTER 15: GAS
CHAPTER 16: HEALTH AND SANITATION
CHAPTER 17: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 18: LAKE WORTH
CHAPTER 19: LIBRARIES
CHAPTER 20: LICENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 23: OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 24: PARK AND RECREATION
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: PLUMBING
CHAPTER 27: POLICE
CHAPTER 28: PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER 29: SIGNS
CHAPTER 29.5: SMOKING
CHAPTER 30: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 31: SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 32: TAXATION
CHAPTER 33: TREES, SHRUBS, ETC.
CHAPTER 34: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTER 35: WATER AND SEWERS
CHAPTER 36: RESERVED
APPENDIX A: ZONING REGULATIONS
APPENDIX B: CODE COMPLIANCE
APPENDIX C: RESERVED
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE
CHAPTER 23: OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Cross-reference:
   Courts, see Ch. 10
   General penalty for code violations, see § 1-6
   Motor vehicles and traffic, see Ch. 22
   Police, Ch. 27
Section
   23-1   Refrigerators or air-tight containers
   23-2   Barbed-wire fences
   23-3   Covering and plugging well or cistern
   23-4   Discharging BB guns, air guns—Prohibited
   23-5   Same—Liability of parents
   23-6   Discharging firearms
   23-7   Garage and automobile storage rooms
   23-8   Noise
   23-9   Intercepting radio communications
   23-10   Reserved
   23-11   Loitering for purpose of prostitution
   23-12   Curfew in publicly owned cemeteries
   23-13   Fastening notices to vehicles without consent
   23-14   Posting of handbills, signs, posters or advertisements in certain places—Prohibited
   23-15   Posting of handbills, signs, posters or advertisements in certain places—Prima facie evidence of violation
   23-16   Certain ticket resales prohibited on city property
   23-17   Prohibition of possession of aerosol paint by minors
   23-18   Reserved
   23-19   Curfew hours for minors
   23-20   Certain ticket sales prohibited on FW Sports Authority, Inc. property
   23-21   Unauthorized camping prohibited
   23-22   Certain amusement redemption machines prohibited
§ 23-1 REFRIGERATORS OR AIR-TIGHT CONTAINERS.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to place or permit to remain outside of any dwelling, building or other structure or within any warehouse or storage room or any unoccupied or abandoned dwelling, building or other structure, under such circumstances as to be accessible to children, any ice box, refrigerator or other air-tight or semi-air-tight container which has a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more and an opening of 50 square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with a latch or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid shut.
(1964 Code, §§ 27-1, 27-2)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see V.A.C.S. Art. 9203, § 1
§ 23-2 BARBED-WIRE FENCES.
   Except as provided in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to build, erect, keep or maintain or permit or allow to be built, erected, kept or maintained any barbed-wire fence on or around any property or premises owned or controlled by such person within the city; provided, however, up to three strands of barbed wire shall be permitted on top of a six-foot-high security-type fence, provided the barbed wire is upright or projecting over the owner’s property and not over abutting property.
(1964 Code, § 27-3) (Ord. 9153, § 1, passed 7-24-1984)
§ 23-3 COVERING AND PLUGGING WELL OR CISTERN.
   (a)   It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any well or cistern, as much as ten feet deep, and not less than ten inches nor more than six feet in diameter to fail to keep it entirely covered at all times with a covering capable of sustaining weight of not less than 200 pounds, except when said well or cistern is in actual use by the owner or operator thereof.
   (b)   It shall be unlawful for any person who shall drill, dig or otherwise create, or cause to be drilled, dug or otherwise created, any well or hole of as much as ten feet in depth and less than ten inches in diameter to abandon such well or hole without first completely filling such well or hole from its total depth to the surface or plugging the same with a permanent type plug at a depth of not less than ten feet from the surface and completely filling the same from such plug to the surface.
(1964 Code, § 27-5)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see V.A.C.S. Art. 9202, §§ 1, 1a
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