A home-rule municipality may enforce ordinances necessary to protect health, life, and property and to preserve the good government, order, and security of the municipality and its inhabitants.
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 54.004
PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, PROPERTY, GOOD GOVERNMENT, AND ORDER IN HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
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