CHAPTER 130: GENERAL OFFENSES
Section
General Provisions
   130.01   Abandoned refrigerators or air-tight containers
   130.02   Giving false name or address to police officer or hospital official
   130.03   Glue sniffing; sale of glue to persons under 18 years of age
   130.04   Throwing articles from windows or vehicles
   130.05   Climbing towers, poles or similar structures
   130.06   Uncovered wells or excavations
   130.07   Solicitation to purchase or acquire controlled substance, dangerous drug or other prohibited substance
   130.08   Intruding on premises
   130.09   Carrying firearm on premises owned by city
   130.10   Regulation of sex offender residency
Curfew Hours for Minors
   130.25   Definitions
   130.26   Offenses
   130.27   Defenses
   130.28   Enforcement
   130.29   Review of juvenile curfew ordinance
 
   130.99   Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 130.01 ABANDONED REFRIGERATORS OR AIR-TIGHT CONTAINERS.
   (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
§ 130.02 GIVING FALSE NAME OR ADDRESS TO POLICE OFFICER OR HOSPITAL OFFICIAL.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person, when giving a written promise to appear or given a written notice by any police officer to appear before the Municipal Court, to answer for an offense against any law of the state, sections of this code or ordinances of the city to give an assumed or fictitious name or a false place of residence or address, or any other than his or her true name and the true place of his or her residence or address, upon the request of the officer.
(1998 Code, § 78-2)
   (B)   It shall be unlawful for any person when receiving inpatient or outpatient aid or services at the hospital or whenever otherwise being treated or being under the care or custody of any person while in the hospital to give an assumed or fictitious name or a false place of residence or address, or any other than his or her true name and the true place of his or her residence or address, to anyone requesting the information.
(1998 Code, § 78-3)
Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.03 GLUE SNIFFING; SALE OF GLUE TO PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.
   (A)   Except as otherwise expressly provided in this section, no person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver or give to any individual under the age of 18 years any glue or cement commonly known as airplane glue, plastic cement, household cement, cement or any other similar substance if the glue, cement or similar substance contains one or more of the following volatile solvents:
      (1)   Toluol;
      (2)   Hexane;
      (3)   Trichlorethylene;
      (4)   Acetone;
      (5)   Toluene;
      (6)   Ethyl acetate;
      (7)   Methyl ethyl ketone;
      (8)   Trichloroethane;
      (9)   Isopropanol;
      (10)   Methyl isobutyl ketone;
      (11)   Methyl cellosolve acetate; and/or
      (12)   Cyclohexanone.
   (B)   The provisions of division (A) above shall not apply when the glue, cement or similar substance is sold, delivered or given simultaneously with and as a part of a kit used for the construction of model airplanes, model boats, model automobiles, model trains or other similar models.
   (C)   No person shall smell, sniff or inhale any glue, cement or similar substance containing one or more of the volatile solvents named in division (A) above for the purpose of becoming intoxicated or in a manner that intoxication results.
(1998 Code, § 78-4) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.04 THROWING ARTICLES FROM WINDOWS OR VEHICLES.
   Any person who shall, within the city, throw or cause to be thrown any water or other liquid or any other article from the upper story of any house or building, or from any vehicle upon any street, alley or sidewalk, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1998 Code, § 78-6) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.05 CLIMBING TOWERS, POLES OR SIMILAR STRUCTURES.
   It shall be unlawful for any person, not employed to do so, to climb or ascend any water tower, windmill tower, telephone, telegraph, electric light or any other publicly or privately owned pole in the city.
(1998 Code, § 78-7) Penalty, see § 130.99
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