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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(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
(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
(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
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
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
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any well, cistern or other excavation on premises owned or occupied by him or her to remain open or uncovered to the danger of others.
(1998 Code, § 78-8) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. The meaning ascribed to it by Tex. Health and Safety Code § 481.002(5), or any amendments thereto.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ANALOGUE. The meaning ascribed to it by Tex. Health and Safety Code § 481.002(6), or any amendment thereto.
DANGEROUS DRUG. The meaning ascribed to it by Tex. Health and Safety Code § 483.001(2), or any amendment thereto.
PROHIBITED SUBSTANCE. A controlled substance, controlled substance analogue, dangerous drug, volatile chemical or any combination thereof.
VOLATILE CHEMICAL. Any of the chemicals, or an isomer of any of the chemicals, as defined by state law.
(B) A person commits an offense with intent to acquire a prohibited substance if he or she requests, commands or attempts to induce another to sell, donate or otherwise transfer or deliver a prohibited substance to the person.
(C) A person may not be convicted under this section on the uncorroborated testimony of the person allegedly solicited unless the solicitation is made under circumstances corroborative of both the solicitation itself and the actor’s intent that the other person act on the solicitation.
(D) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that:
(1) No monetary or other consideration was tendered to the person solicited; and/or
(2) The person solicited was unable or unwilling to transfer or deliver a prohibited substance.
(E) It is an affirmative defense to any prosecution under this section that:
(1) The solicitation is made in furtherance of a transaction which would not constitute a violation of any applicable law; and/or
(2) The solicitation is made by a peace officer or federal law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge of his or her duties or by a law enforcement agent acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty.
(1998 Code, § 78-9) Penalty, see § 130.99
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