Texas Law and HOA

[IdyllwildAcres]

post on facebook a week after it already died... I swear it tries to block everything important.

FB is pure evil. If not for them and russia.....

 

[Hwy37]

We Need the help of all Texans to call their Senator and ask for their support of the HB 1686. See below for info on the bill and how to contact your Senator. Please help those of us who are fighting their HOA and City Municipalities.

HB 1686, the Home Food Security Act, has passed the Texas House by a vote of 143-1! Now the Senate must pass the bill for it to be sent to the Governor to become law!

HB 1686 says that municipalities and HOA’s can’t prohibit you from having up to 6 laying hens, 6 rabbits, (with no more than a total of 8 ) or a front yard garden. It also says that HOA’s can’t prohibit your cottage food operation. Reasonable regulations for noise and odor control are part of this bill – and no roosters.

We all saw the breakdowns in the food supply chain this past year. COVID. Meat-packing plants shut down. The Great Freeze in February with empty grocery shelves and lines out the doors. We can increase our food security if we can produce food for our families on land that we already own.
CALL:
Find out who your Texas State Senator is by entering your address at this link:
https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Click on the name that is “Texas Senate District XX”. Their phone number starts with 512-463-XXXX.
OR you can just call the Capitol Switchboard at 512-463-4630 and give the operator your address and ask to be connected to your Senator.
(Don’t call Ted Cruz or John Cornyn, they are our US Senators and can’t help with this!)
Call that number above, and when the staff person answers the phone, say: “Hi, my name is _____ and I am a constituent. I am c
alling to ask Senator ____ to vote YES on HB 1686. It has already passed the House.

You can add a sentence or two about why the bill is important to you: be concise. This is the busiest time of session, so shorter is better!

Read the bill (click the Text tab, choose House Committee Report):
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx…

Unfortunately, it failed... yet again!

 

[natalyabalciunas]

We Need the help of all Texans to call their Senator and ask for their support of the HB 1686. See below for info on the bill and how to contact your Senator. Please help those of us who are fighting their HOA and City Municipalities.

HB 1686, the Home Food Security Act, has passed the Texas House by a vote of 143-1! Now the Senate must pass the bill for it to be sent to the Governor to become law!

HB 1686 says that municipalities and HOA’s can’t prohibit you from having up to 6 laying hens, 6 rabbits, (with no more than a total of 8 ) or a front yard garden. It also says that HOA’s can’t prohibit your cottage food operation. Reasonable regulations for noise and odor control are part of this bill – and no roosters.

We all saw the breakdowns in the food supply chain this past year. COVID. Meat-packing plants shut down. The Great Freeze in February with empty grocery shelves and lines out the doors. We can increase our food security if we can produce food for our families on land that we already own.
CALL:
Find out who your Texas State Senator is by entering your address at this link:
https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Click on the name that is “Texas Senate District XX”. Their phone number starts with 512-463-XXXX.
OR you can just call the Capitol Switchboard at 512-463-4630 and give the operator your address and ask to be connected to your Senator.
(Don’t call Ted Cruz or John Cornyn, they are our US Senators and can’t help with this!)
Call that number above, and when the staff person answers the phone, say: “Hi, my name is _____ and I am a constituent. I am c
alling to ask Senator ____ to vote YES on HB 1686. It has already passed the House.

You can add a sentence or two about why the bill is important to you: be concise. This is the busiest time of session, so shorter is better!

Read the bill (click the Text tab, choose House Committee Report):
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx…

We Need the help of all Texans to call their Senator and ask for their support of the HB 1686. See below for info on the bill and how to contact your Senator. Please help those of us who are fighting their HOA and City Municipalities.

HB 1686, the Home Food Security Act, has passed the Texas House by a vote of 143-1! Now the Senate must pass the bill for it to be sent to the Governor to become law!

HB 1686 says that municipalities and HOA’s can’t prohibit you from having up to 6 laying hens, 6 rabbits, (with no more than a total of 8 ) or a front yard garden. It also says that HOA’s can’t prohibit your cottage food operation. Reasonable regulations for noise and odor control are part of this bill – and no roosters.

We all saw the breakdowns in the food supply chain this past year. COVID. Meat-packing plants shut down. The Great Freeze in February with empty grocery shelves and lines out the doors. We can increase our food security if we can produce food for our families on land that we already own.
CALL:
Find out who your Texas State Senator is by entering your address at this link:
https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Click on the name that is “Texas Senate District XX”. Their phone number starts with 512-463-XXXX.
OR you can just call the Capitol Switchboard at 512-463-4630 and give the operator your address and ask to be connected to your Senator.
(Don’t call Ted Cruz or John Cornyn, they are our US Senators and can’t help with this!)
Call that number above, and when the staff person answers the phone, say: “Hi, my name is _____ and I am a constituent. I am c
alling to ask Senator ____ to vote YES on HB 1686. It has already passed the House.

You can add a sentence or two about why the bill is important to you: be concise. This is the busiest time of session, so shorter is better!

Read the bill (click the Text tab, choose House Committee Report):
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx…

Do you know what the status is for this now?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Do you know what the status is for this now?

Might I refer you to BillTrack.gov?

TX HB1686
Referred to Committee 05/14/21 - where bills go to die before ever reaching the floor.

With the changing of the House membership after recent elections, everything from the old session not signed into law is rendered a nullity. Some TX Congresscritter would need to introduce a new bill to start the process all over.

 

[seabasschickens]

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01686I.htm
This law passed - for any of those who are curious on this thread.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01686I.htm
This law passed - for any of those who are curious on this thread.

No, it did not.

Died in the TX Senate. Never reached the Gov for signature. The bill got 1/3 o f the way.

 

[Gemini22]

Basically any HOA in any state is a bunch of greedy F-----s. You can't trust them at all.

You wouldn't believe how many stories of people I know where when they were buying a house they'd be told the HOA fees are locked and won't go up. Then its now five or six times what they started with. In CA, HOA fees now are sometimes close to 500 dollars a month. And my sister moved because their HOA had gotten up to 300 a month here in Utah, but it had started less than a hundred a month.

The funny thing is there is no legal bearing for HOA's to exist but everyone sides with them. ALWAYS. They have terrorized literally millions now in this country and work pretty effectively at being anti-constitutional in their applied behaviors. And a lot of why they get away with it, is that there's no outcry or banding together against them.

Most new housing now has a much higher chance of having an HOA attached it than older houses and land.

This kind of stuff bothers me. But until there's outcry you can't fight them solo well. And fighting them solo you will likely lose, due to 'social programming'.

I have no idea why people let HOAs to even exist. They were created to be glorified grass cutter services and to clean yards, not to rule over people. But now they only care about ruling over people. They don't even care about your grass.

Why do people even let them exist?

It seems like the only thing that would work against them is 'showing evidences of their abuses of power'.

Well sorry for my rant.

Amen! I’m new to TX and never realized how huge HOA is here in SA!!! Seems every neighborhood loves being controlled and no one wants to end the HOAs. I completely understand why HOAs were started BUT they get into your underwear!!! I’ve never felt so restricted. I like San Antonio but I don’t want to buy a home in an HOA community. What areas just outside or inside SA could look for a home that has no dictatorship HOA?

 

[nao57]

Amen! I’m new to TX and never realized how huge HOA is here in SA!!! Seems every neighborhood loves being controlled and no one wants to end the HOAs. I completely understand why HOAs were started BUT they get into your underwear!!! I’ve never felt so restricted. I like San Antonio but I don’t want to buy a home in an HOA community. What areas just outside or inside SA could look for a home that has no dictatorship HOA?

I heard a rumor that older homes have less chance of an HOA. But I haven't been able to verify that. HOWEVER, when my sister was looking for a house she noticed that older houses were also more likely to have bigger yards also. (Which lets you have self sufficiency).

Getting away from big cities helps, but not guaranteed.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I heard a rumor that older homes have less chance of an HOA. But I haven't been able to verify that.

It's not a "rumor" - if a neighborhood was established before the heyday of HOAs (so early 1980s or so) they often didn't add one in after the fact.

I used to live in a city that had exactly 2 neighborhoods that did not have an HOA. My in-laws lived in one, my parents lived in the other. You could see evidence of it in the fact that a lot of people remodeled their homes over the years leading to a very strange mix of architecture in the area.

 

[VictoriaTexas]

Hello!
I have searched the threads in regards to local laws but they are old. I wondering if anyone knows if, in the state of Texas, can the HOA overrule the local laws? In my city (Princeton) people are allowed to have 6 hens, no roosters with the hen house at least 50 feet away from a dwelling. I've tried calling the city office but they are closed due to the virus
Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Victoria code is coop 100ft from any neighbor home & must not be visible from the street, birds must be contained to the yard & no closer than 10ft to the property line. Limited only in # to the coop & run size which is per bird ft & dependent on sanitary maintenance & the secure housekeeping of fences & the coop. ("something like that")

The City rewrote the entire animal ordinance a few yrs ago
I think it has lenient clause if you have a small yard more aimed on placement of the coop.

Use to be no fowl within 100ft of the property line, which I think is the Federal standard for a City management guideline.

The code isnt as detailed as what the City implies, more or less understood missing it as the practice would say.

Sorry, absolutely NO roosters
(I enjoy them myself)


I ran for Mayor here 2010
* A Home Owners Association can not alter a City code !
Annexes are still required to follow the rule governing the entire City

To change an ordinance in a City code requires a petition, signed by % of voters (thats # of voters in the entire City), passed by public vote at the time General Elections are held.

Its pretty easy to do actually, simple simple 4 line form stating the required change, a short description, registered with the City Secretary you sign it as your intent, then you will be given sets for how ever many sheets for signatures you will need to obtain. It shouldnt cost a cent, a lil of someones time & ANY legal resident owner can do it, it is usually done during the few months preceding election time in your County more or less that is at the time when council members are elected.



*** yes you have limits to what is change able You can not request the Public vote to have no more laws of any kind,

eTc

Ask the County Commissioner in your precinct, he will help you
(thats his job)! A City is zoned & has either a no zoning statute or it is regulated by the Commission in charge of the depts that have regulation in the area of a code you are specific to - its really not as complicated as it sounds, different strokes for different zones

- keeping in mind all code is written as a strict policy for homeowner safety & the public so that if needed a public servant is not hurt while at your place of residence, be them a friend visiting, or an EMS on duty . . . or you are a public servant living there.

good luck !


ps. probably would of won had I not made such a fine example out of the any monkey can do this job


ooh ooh ee ee

a severity of a situation precedes any trust pre authorized



meow
(in monkey mode)