(A) 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 icebox, 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 the door or lid shut.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon an icebox without first removing the locks or doors of the icebox in such a way as to prevent the doors from being closed and locked.
(1998 Code, § 78-1) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Tex. Health and Safety Code §§ 756.011 through 756.013