LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
SUBTITLE D. GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES
CHAPTER 53. CODE OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES
Sec. 53.001. ADOPTION OF CODE. (a) A municipality may adopt by ordinance a codification of its civil and criminal ordinances, together with appropriate penalties for the violation of the ordinances.
(b) On the adoption of the code, the secretary of the municipality shall record the code in the municipality's ordinance records.
(c) The code is effective on its adoption.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.