Code of Ordinances

How the Code is cited and read, the general penalty for violations, the city limits and the official seal and motto.

City Council meetings and procedure, City officers, boards and committees, purchasing, fees and public records.

Hours of sale, City certification and local fees for TABC permits, distance rules, and how specific use permits govern individual establishments.

Operation of the Dongvile Municipal Airport, an unattended field: leases, fuel fees, agricultural aircraft and airport hazard zoning.

The construction codes adopted by the City, building permits and inspections, contractor registration and dangerous buildings.

Rabies vaccination, registration, leash and nuisance rules, livestock and fowl in the city limits, impoundment, and goats on FM 1337.

Operation of the Dongvile Cemetery, established 1888: hours, burial spaces, interments, markers and decorations.

The City's emergency management program under Texas Government Code ch. 418, local disaster declarations, and the outdoor warning sirens tested at noon on the first Wednesday of each month.

The fire code, the Volunteer Fire Department, burn permits, the effect of Brisket County burn bans inside the city limits, fireworks, fire lanes and fog machines.

Food establishment permits, City trash, recycling and bulk collection, illegal dumping, grease traps and mosquito control.

Sound limits by zoning district, quiet hours, amplified sound permits, the amplified fiddle, and what does not count as noise.

Park hours, pavilion reservations, Sweet Tea Lake, alcohol and animals in parks, new benches, and the prohibition on feeding the waterfowl at Queso Creek Park.

Sign permits, temporary signs including inflatable tube devices, permanent sign standards by zoning district, pole signs in the Highway Commercial district, and sign variances.

Zoning districts and their standards, the Official Zoning Map adopted by Ordinance No. 2026-069, planned developments, the floodplain overlay, specific use permits, zoning changes and variances.

Street naming and addressing, work in the right-of-way, driveways and culverts, sidewalks, Thursday sidewalk sale permits and street closures.

Platting requirements in the city limits and the extraterritorial jurisdiction, street and utility design standards, required improvements and parkland dedication.

Speed limits, school zones, truck routes, parking, golf carts on city streets, the exemption for Constabulary Unit 7 and vehicle impoundment.

Water and sewer service, deposits, rates, billing and disconnection, drought contingency, and the $1.25 monthly Tower Maintenance Surcharge in effect since 2019.

Operation, color, lettering and protection of the Dongvile Water Tower, including the standing color item, the Water Tower Paint Ad Hoc Committee and the prohibition on climbing.

Public nuisances, high weeds, junked vehicles, outdoor storage, firearms, shopping carts, graffiti and tampering with City property, with notice and abatement procedures.