Texas Code Enforcement Officer Training
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Constitutionality of zoning case - ✔️✔️1926 US Supreme Court case The Village of Euclid vs.
Ambler Realty Company.
1926/7 US Department of Commerce Act - ✔️✔️The Standard Zoning Enabling Act
Deed Restrictions - ✔️✔️a set of private, multi-party contracts created for the benefit of residents
of a specific subdivision.
Zoning Commission - ✔️✔️Must be appointed by the city council of a home rule city to study
the relevant issues and recommend the original zoning district boundaries and regulations
before a general zoning scheme can be adopted.
Nonconforming use - ✔️✔️land use which predates the current zoning ordinance and violates the
current zoning ordinance.
The board of adjustments is empowered to... - ✔️✔️grant a variance from certain provisions in
the zoning ordinance when literal enforcement would result in unnecessary hardship, the
variance is not contrary to public interest, and the spirit of the ordinance is maintained.
Board of adjustment has exclusive jurisdiction over which three zoning issues? - ✔️✔️variance,
special exception, and appeals from the decision of the administrative personnel.
A basic city plan contains which four components of a comprehensive plan? - ✔️✔️Land use
plan, transportation plan, community facilities plan, policies document
The TWO types of zoning - ✔️✔️performance, standard/euclidean
Amortization - ✔️✔️the process of terminating non-conformance on the basis of a time schedule
that has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments.
Covenant - ✔️✔️A signed written agreement between two or more parties to perform some
action.
The FOUR land use areas typically listed in a zoning ordinance - ✔️✔️agricultural, residential,
commercial, industrial
What does zoning regulate? - ✔️✔️Land use
When have courts consistently prohibited home occupations? - ✔️✔️When the commercial
activity became the DOMINANT use of the dwelling.
, Home Occupation - ✔️✔️the partial use of a dwelling unit for commercial or nonresidential uses
by a resident, which is SUBORDINATE and INCIDENTAL to the use of the dwelling for
residential purposes.
Some ordinances prohibit this in relation to home occupations. - ✔️✔️Advertising that includes
the STREET ADDRESS in newspaper, radio, TV or telephone directory.
Home based business sign... - ✔️✔️placement is the first step in preventing glaring visual
impacts of the home occupations on surrounding neighborhoods.
Most Day Care Facilities... - ✔️✔️are regulated by STATE provisions and criteria concerning the
number of unrelated children kept in the household.
Impacts that a home occupation may have on a neighborhood - ✔️✔️excess traffic, advertising,
parking, signs
Disadvantages of home occupations - ✔️✔️generates traffic, parking problems, electrical
problems, noise, odors, other nuisances or other businesses
At least FOUR ways that permanent garage sales can be prevented - ✔️✔️3-day limit, twice
yearly limit, permitting, location on owner property, no resales, no consignments
Limitations placed on home occupations - ✔️✔️floor area, residents or employees, non-residents,
storage and sales
Stipulations that a municipality may place on a day care as a home occupation - ✔️✔️hours of
operation, parking off-street, permit duration, required reports & verifications, size/location of
outdoor play area.
To dispose of an abandoned motor vehicle taken into custody... - ✔️✔️a law enforcement agency
may use code enforcement department equipment (or contract for other equipment)
Antique Auto - ✔️✔️a passenger car or truck that was manufactured in 1925 or before, or a
passenger car or truck that is at least 25 years old.
The owner of an abandoned vehicle should be notified... - ✔️✔️no later than the 10th day after
the vehicle is taken into custody.
A motor vehicle demolisher is required to accept... - ✔️✔️the certificate of authority to dispose
of a vehicle in lieu of a certificate of title for the vehicle.
Junk vehicle notice... - ✔️✔️must be personally delivered or sent by certified mail (NOT email)
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Constitutionality of zoning case - ✔️✔️1926 US Supreme Court case The Village of Euclid vs.
Ambler Realty Company.
1926/7 US Department of Commerce Act - ✔️✔️The Standard Zoning Enabling Act
Deed Restrictions - ✔️✔️a set of private, multi-party contracts created for the benefit of residents
of a specific subdivision.
Zoning Commission - ✔️✔️Must be appointed by the city council of a home rule city to study
the relevant issues and recommend the original zoning district boundaries and regulations
before a general zoning scheme can be adopted.
Nonconforming use - ✔️✔️land use which predates the current zoning ordinance and violates the
current zoning ordinance.
The board of adjustments is empowered to... - ✔️✔️grant a variance from certain provisions in
the zoning ordinance when literal enforcement would result in unnecessary hardship, the
variance is not contrary to public interest, and the spirit of the ordinance is maintained.
Board of adjustment has exclusive jurisdiction over which three zoning issues? - ✔️✔️variance,
special exception, and appeals from the decision of the administrative personnel.
A basic city plan contains which four components of a comprehensive plan? - ✔️✔️Land use
plan, transportation plan, community facilities plan, policies document
The TWO types of zoning - ✔️✔️performance, standard/euclidean
Amortization - ✔️✔️the process of terminating non-conformance on the basis of a time schedule
that has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments.
Covenant - ✔️✔️A signed written agreement between two or more parties to perform some
action.
The FOUR land use areas typically listed in a zoning ordinance - ✔️✔️agricultural, residential,
commercial, industrial
What does zoning regulate? - ✔️✔️Land use
When have courts consistently prohibited home occupations? - ✔️✔️When the commercial
activity became the DOMINANT use of the dwelling.
, Home Occupation - ✔️✔️the partial use of a dwelling unit for commercial or nonresidential uses
by a resident, which is SUBORDINATE and INCIDENTAL to the use of the dwelling for
residential purposes.
Some ordinances prohibit this in relation to home occupations. - ✔️✔️Advertising that includes
the STREET ADDRESS in newspaper, radio, TV or telephone directory.
Home based business sign... - ✔️✔️placement is the first step in preventing glaring visual
impacts of the home occupations on surrounding neighborhoods.
Most Day Care Facilities... - ✔️✔️are regulated by STATE provisions and criteria concerning the
number of unrelated children kept in the household.
Impacts that a home occupation may have on a neighborhood - ✔️✔️excess traffic, advertising,
parking, signs
Disadvantages of home occupations - ✔️✔️generates traffic, parking problems, electrical
problems, noise, odors, other nuisances or other businesses
At least FOUR ways that permanent garage sales can be prevented - ✔️✔️3-day limit, twice
yearly limit, permitting, location on owner property, no resales, no consignments
Limitations placed on home occupations - ✔️✔️floor area, residents or employees, non-residents,
storage and sales
Stipulations that a municipality may place on a day care as a home occupation - ✔️✔️hours of
operation, parking off-street, permit duration, required reports & verifications, size/location of
outdoor play area.
To dispose of an abandoned motor vehicle taken into custody... - ✔️✔️a law enforcement agency
may use code enforcement department equipment (or contract for other equipment)
Antique Auto - ✔️✔️a passenger car or truck that was manufactured in 1925 or before, or a
passenger car or truck that is at least 25 years old.
The owner of an abandoned vehicle should be notified... - ✔️✔️no later than the 10th day after
the vehicle is taken into custody.
A motor vehicle demolisher is required to accept... - ✔️✔️the certificate of authority to dispose
of a vehicle in lieu of a certificate of title for the vehicle.
Junk vehicle notice... - ✔️✔️must be personally delivered or sent by certified mail (NOT email)
