Texas Code Enforcement Officer
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Under sanitation code, if a person service cannot be obtained or the owners post office address
is unknown the municipality may provide notice of violation in what other form? -
✔️✔️Publication at least twice within 10 consecutive days.
Post a notice on or near the front door of each building on to which the violation relates.
Post a notice on a placard attached to a steak driven into the ground on the property to which
the violation relates.
Years ago the state did away with the $2 dollar disposal charge of tires and replaced it with a
battery fee. What is the amount of the fee? - ✔️✔️$4
If a HUD manufactured home request application is denied, the applicant must be informed
within how many days? - ✔️✔️45 days
____ ____ Provides local cities or tails with a measure of self government (able to pass their
own laws) being able to write their laws based on state legislation (state laws). - ✔️✔️Home Rule
_____ _____ cities or towns basically operate under state legislation (state laws) without
changing those laws. - ✔️✔️General Law
Most cities or towns become homeroom charters in a population of___this is done by a vote of
citizens. - ✔️✔️5,000
The ____ admendment insure state governments do not discriminate in applying their laws to
different individuals or groups of people. - ✔️✔️14th Admendment
The ___ admendment prohibits, generally, the search and seizure of any property unless a
warrant has been issued. - ✔️✔️4th Amendment
The ___ amendment provides for an indiviuals right to freedom of speech. - ✔️✔️1st
Amendment
A judicial order (order by a judge) ordering a specific conduct or act to stop, either permanently
or temporally is known as? (This would be Ch. 54 when dealing with codes filled in a district
court.) - ✔️✔️Injunction
Papers or documents filed when a city has taken action against a property; which stay with the
property; and if someone purchases the property, the new owner still has to follow or pay the
civil actions or orders placed on that property; is known as? - ✔️✔️Lis Pendens
Search warrants can only be issue to how many code officials? - ✔️✔️1
, Search warrants have an execution date of how many whole days exclusive of the day is
issuance and it's execution? - ✔️✔️3
How are home occupation administered and enforced? - ✔️✔️Zoning ordinances
What is an argument against home occupations? - ✔️✔️Discrimination economically against
owners of commercial space.
Residential structures are not suited for the commercial equipment.
Traffic, noise, orders, parking problems, and other nuisance.
Other business
This zoning term/ type are used for a zoning technique under which municipality adopts a
zoning district in the text of its zoning ordinance but does not map? - ✔️✔️Floating Zones
Police power is the primary form of___enforcement? - ✔️✔️Zoning
A means of judiciously affording relief to those adversely affected by a zoning ordinance, but
not meant to be a method of a zoning ordinance is known as? - ✔️✔️Variances
What is a simple process in which sound decisions are made in action taken based on
collection, analysis and management of information. - ✔️✔️Urban Planning
What component of a comprehensive plan identifies the best location for residential,
commercial, and industrial sites within a city?. - ✔️✔️Land use plan
The village of Euclid vs Ambler realty company was a US Supreme Court case concerning the
constitutionality of zoning and what happened and what year? - ✔️✔️1926
What provides the best opportunity for systematically using volunteers in enforcement? -
✔️✔️Planning and zoning commission
What section of comprehensive plan tells the average citizen what guidelines, principles, and
standards the governing body and the planning zoning commissions will apply in making a
decision? - ✔️✔️Policies document
A set of private, multiparty contracts created for the benefit of residence of a specific
subdivision are known as? - ✔️✔️Deed restrictions
Zoning based on the right of a City to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare is
known as? - ✔️✔️Police powers
Before the city Council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme , the city must ?
- ✔️✔️Plan
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Under sanitation code, if a person service cannot be obtained or the owners post office address
is unknown the municipality may provide notice of violation in what other form? -
✔️✔️Publication at least twice within 10 consecutive days.
Post a notice on or near the front door of each building on to which the violation relates.
Post a notice on a placard attached to a steak driven into the ground on the property to which
the violation relates.
Years ago the state did away with the $2 dollar disposal charge of tires and replaced it with a
battery fee. What is the amount of the fee? - ✔️✔️$4
If a HUD manufactured home request application is denied, the applicant must be informed
within how many days? - ✔️✔️45 days
____ ____ Provides local cities or tails with a measure of self government (able to pass their
own laws) being able to write their laws based on state legislation (state laws). - ✔️✔️Home Rule
_____ _____ cities or towns basically operate under state legislation (state laws) without
changing those laws. - ✔️✔️General Law
Most cities or towns become homeroom charters in a population of___this is done by a vote of
citizens. - ✔️✔️5,000
The ____ admendment insure state governments do not discriminate in applying their laws to
different individuals or groups of people. - ✔️✔️14th Admendment
The ___ admendment prohibits, generally, the search and seizure of any property unless a
warrant has been issued. - ✔️✔️4th Amendment
The ___ amendment provides for an indiviuals right to freedom of speech. - ✔️✔️1st
Amendment
A judicial order (order by a judge) ordering a specific conduct or act to stop, either permanently
or temporally is known as? (This would be Ch. 54 when dealing with codes filled in a district
court.) - ✔️✔️Injunction
Papers or documents filed when a city has taken action against a property; which stay with the
property; and if someone purchases the property, the new owner still has to follow or pay the
civil actions or orders placed on that property; is known as? - ✔️✔️Lis Pendens
Search warrants can only be issue to how many code officials? - ✔️✔️1
, Search warrants have an execution date of how many whole days exclusive of the day is
issuance and it's execution? - ✔️✔️3
How are home occupation administered and enforced? - ✔️✔️Zoning ordinances
What is an argument against home occupations? - ✔️✔️Discrimination economically against
owners of commercial space.
Residential structures are not suited for the commercial equipment.
Traffic, noise, orders, parking problems, and other nuisance.
Other business
This zoning term/ type are used for a zoning technique under which municipality adopts a
zoning district in the text of its zoning ordinance but does not map? - ✔️✔️Floating Zones
Police power is the primary form of___enforcement? - ✔️✔️Zoning
A means of judiciously affording relief to those adversely affected by a zoning ordinance, but
not meant to be a method of a zoning ordinance is known as? - ✔️✔️Variances
What is a simple process in which sound decisions are made in action taken based on
collection, analysis and management of information. - ✔️✔️Urban Planning
What component of a comprehensive plan identifies the best location for residential,
commercial, and industrial sites within a city?. - ✔️✔️Land use plan
The village of Euclid vs Ambler realty company was a US Supreme Court case concerning the
constitutionality of zoning and what happened and what year? - ✔️✔️1926
What provides the best opportunity for systematically using volunteers in enforcement? -
✔️✔️Planning and zoning commission
What section of comprehensive plan tells the average citizen what guidelines, principles, and
standards the governing body and the planning zoning commissions will apply in making a
decision? - ✔️✔️Policies document
A set of private, multiparty contracts created for the benefit of residence of a specific
subdivision are known as? - ✔️✔️Deed restrictions
Zoning based on the right of a City to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare is
known as? - ✔️✔️Police powers
Before the city Council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme , the city must ?
- ✔️✔️Plan
