CITY OF HOUSTON
MUNICIPAL
CODE

A Codification of the General Ordinances

of the City of Houston, Alaska

Reformatted, Indexed, and Published by
CODE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Seattle, Washington

PREFACE

Citation to the Houston Municipal Code: This code should be cited as HMC; i.e., “see HMC 3.05.010.” An HMC title should be cited HMC Title 3. An HMC chapter should be cited Chapter 3.05 HMC. An HMC section should be cited HMC 3.05.010. Through references should be made as HMC 3.05.010 through 3.05.040. Series of sections should be cited as HMC 3.05.010, 3.05.020, and 3.05.030.

References to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Code are cited as MSBC.

Numbering system: The number of each section of this code consists of three parts, in sequence as follows: Number of title; number of chapter within the title; number of section within the chapter. Thus HMC 3.05.020 is Title 3, Chapter 5, Section 20. The section part of the number (.020) initially consists of three digits. This provides a facility for numbering new sections to be inserted between existing sections already consecutively numbered. In most chapters of the HMC, sections have been numbered by tens (.010, .020, .030, .040, etc.), leaving nine vacant numbers between original sections so that for a time new sections may be inserted without extension of the section number beyond three digits.

Legislation: The legislative source of most sections is enclosed in parentheses at the end of the section. References to ordinances are abbreviated; thus “(Ord. 2221 § 1, 1995; Ord. 2024 § 2, 1991)” refers to Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2221 and Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2024. “Formerly” followed by a HMC citation preserves the record of original codification. A semicolon between ordinance citations indicates an amendment of the earlier section.

Codification tables: To convert an ordinance citation to its HMC number consult the codification tables. The parenthetical information at the end of each ordinance entry indicates where the ordinance has been codified. Ordinances designated as “Special,” “Repealed,” or “Not Codified” do not appear in the code.

Index: A complete subject matter index is included for HMC Titles 1 through 14. The index includes complete cross-referencing and is keyed to the section numbers described above.

Errors or omissions: Although considerable care has been used in the production of this code, it is inevitable in so large a work that there will be errors. As users of this code detect such errors, it is requested that a note citing the section involved and the nature of the error be e-mailed to: cpc@codepublishing.com, so that correction may be made in a subsequent update.

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