Code Enforcement
The right of a city to protect the public’s health, safety, and general welfare is referred to as ______ powers.
An encumbrance or legal burden upon property
Police power is the primary form of ____ enforcement.
Zoning
______ means a passenger car or truck that is at least 25 years old.
Antique vehicle
According to the Texas Health and Safety COde Chapter 343, weeds means all rank and uncultivated vegetable growth or matter that has grown more than _____ inches in height.
36 inches
List at least three dangers code enforcement officers should be prepared to encounter.
Animal attacks
Car jacking
Assault
Communicable diseases
In Texas, the _____ provides the standards of conduct for Code Enforcement officers through 16 TAC 62.
TDLR
When legal nonconforming uses occur, the _______ rights prevent the city from requiring that the nonconforming use be brought to conformance immediately.
Grandfathered
Junked vehicle means a vehicle that is self-propelled, _____, and ______.
Does not have lawfully attached to it an unexpired license plate and is wrecked, dismantled or partially dismantled, or discarded; or inoperable and has remained inoperable for more than: 72 consecutive hours, if the vehicle is on public property property; or (ii) 30 consecutive days, if the vehicle is on private property.
______ is mostly non-putricible wastes including debris, tin cans, bottles, paper, grass and weeds cuttings, paper boxes, short and light wood building material.
Rubbish
The TDLR defines a code enforcement officer-in-training as…
An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement, but who has less than one year of experience in the field of code enforcement and is supervised by a registered code enforcement officer.
The power of a local city or county to set up its own system of self-government without receiving a charter from the state.
Before the city council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme, the city must appoint a _______ to study the relevant issues and recommend the original zoning district boundaries and regulations.
Zoning Commissioner
______ means a motor vehicle of any age that has not been changed from its original manufacturer’s specifications and, because of its historic interests, is being preserved by the hobbyist.
______ means a device that causes a gate to automatically close without human or electrical power after it has been opened and to automatically latch without human or electrical power when the gate closes.
Self-closing and self-latching device
What is the state definition of code enforcement?
The inspection, improvement, and rehabilitation of environmental hazards in public and private premises by determining the presence of fire or health hazards, nuisance violations, unsafe building conditions, and violations of any fire, health, or building regulation, statue, or ordinance.
What is Dillon’s Rule?
A municipal corporation that has only those powers which are expressly granted to it by charter or other legislation, implied or necessarily incident to the express powers and essential and indispensable to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation in regards to city powers
What is the process of terminating nonconformance on the basis of a time schedule that has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments?
Amortization
An Abandoned Motor Vehicle is inoperable and is more than ____ years old and has been left unattended on public property for more than _____ hours.
5 years old, 48 hours
The height of the pool yard enclosure must be at least _____ inches as measured from the ground on the side away from the pool. Openings under the pool yard enclosure may not allow a sphere _____ inches in diameter to pass under the pool yard enclosure.
48 inches, four inches
What is the acronym P.R.E.P.A.R.E.D?
P-PREPARE
R- RESPONSIVE
E- EMPATHETIC
P- PATIENT
A- ALERT
R- READY
E- EDUCATED
D- DISCIPLINED
What is a Venire?
A writ summoning persons to court to act as jurors.
The board of adjustment has almost exclusive jurisdiction over which three zoning issues?
Variance, special exception, appeals
What does Subchapter D of the Texas Transportation Code Chapter 683 cover?
Demolition of abandoned motor vehicles
Under the sanitation code, if personal service cannot be obtained or the owner’s post office address is unknown, the municipality may provide notice by publication at least _____ within ______ consecutive days.
Twice, 10 days