FENCE RULES – VICTORIA (COUNTY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page covers residential fences in unincorporated Victoria County where the county administers the applicable function. Incorporated municipalities have separate requirements. In the City of Victoria’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, the City administers subdivision matters under an interlocal agreement; that arrangement does not extend all City fence rules into the unincorporated county. Floodplain, drainage-district, road and other programs have their own territorial limits.

Victoria County has no adopted zoning or building codes and issues no building permits or certificates of occupancy for unincorporated development. Fence location still matters: applicable subdivision rules expressly reach fences within public-road setback lines and drainage easements. The county does not publish ordinary yard-fence height limits or separate wood, vinyl/PVC and chain-link standards. A property line is different from a road right-of-way or easement. Floodplain work, road access, buried utilities, private covenants, certain pool hazards and agricultural uses can change the answer for a particular home. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Victoria County answer
Permit or approval	The county issues no building permits. Its published requirements do not communicate a general permit requirement for standard private-yard fences. Separate floodplain, county-property/right-of-way, road-access and other applicable approvals remain.
Typical fence height	The county does not publish a general front-, side- or rear-yard fence maximum. Animal-specific, agricultural, pool and private-restriction conditions are separate.
Placement & property lines	No general fence-to-property-line distance is published. Where the county development manual applies, fences are prohibited within established public-road building setback lines: 50 feet from the right-of-way edge on major highways/roads; 25 feet on other public roads. Applicable drainage easements prohibit fences.
Common fence materials	Wood: no ordinary material-specific county standard published. Vinyl/PVC: not specifically addressed. Chain-link: no ordinary material-specific county standard published. These statements do not establish permission under private or special-site requirements.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by applicable subdivision/plat conditions, road rights-of-way and access, floodplain/floodway location, drainage and utility easements, drainage-district territory, pool use, dangerous-dog confinement, rural agricultural uses and private restrictions.
Official local resource	Victoria County Development Regulations and More

The table above is for quick reference; additional fence-rule details appear in the corresponding sections below. Before purchasing materials or beginning construction, read the sections that apply to the property, review the linked official sources, and confirm site-specific questions with Victoria County Engineering & Development or the responsible office identified for that issue.

GOVERNANCE

County authority. The Commissioners Court adopts county development and program orders within its statutory authority. Victoria County’s Development & Permit Guidelines state that the county has not adopted zoning or building codes for residential or commercial development in unincorporated areas and does not issue building permits or certificates of occupancy. This does not remove independently applicable subdivision, environmental, road, state-law or private requirements.

Development and subdivision administration. Engineering & Development provides the county development standards and guidance. The Victoria County Development Standards Manual, effective October 15, 2018, regulates land subdivision and associated improvements. Its application provisions matter before applying its fence-location rules to an existing home. New applications received on or after that date use the manual; earlier applications generally use the earlier rules unless the applicant elects the newer rules or a substantial alteration, modification, expansion or change triggers them. Final plats approved before October 15, 2018 are exempt under the manual’s stated provision, while later plat or plan modifications must comply with the most recently adopted regulations. Do not assume that replacing a fence retroactively subjects every older rural lot to the 2018 subdivision standards.

City subdivision role in the ETJ. The April 19, 2002 interlocal agreement grants the City of Victoria exclusive subdivision-plat and related Chapter 212, Subchapter A administration in its ETJ. Current county guidance directs ETJ divisions of property to City of Victoria Development Services. County floodplain and public-health officials participate in the plat-review process. The agreement’s historical 3.5-mile ETJ description does not establish today’s parcel boundary; current jurisdiction, releases and the latest applicable agreement control. Subdivision administration does not make ordinary municipal fence-height, material or building-code provisions countywide requirements.

Environmental programs. The Public Health Department’s Environmental Services Division handles the county’s identified floodplain, stormwater, sanitation and on-site sewage facility programs. The flood order designates the County Engineer or the Commissioners Court’s designee as Floodplain Administrator. The county flood program covers special flood hazard areas in unincorporated territory. County stormwater/MS4 coverage concerns urbanized portions of the unincorporated county, described as approximately five separated areas, rather than every rural property.

Roads, drainage and utilities. The precinct County Commissioner handles county-road driveway and county-property/right-of-way matters. TxDOT handles new or modified state-highway driveway connections. Victoria County Drainage District No. 3 has separate drainage and stormwater functions within its actual area. Water improvement districts, Quail Creek Municipal Utility District and the groundwater conservation district have their own service functions; service territory does not itself establish a general fence permit or zoning rule. Recorded easements, approved plats and property-specific development conditions require separate attention.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

Ordinary private-yard fences. Victoria County issues no building permits or certificates of occupancy and does not publish a general fence-specific local permit requirement or exemption for standard residential fences. This is separate from the affirmative absence of county zoning/building codes. Municipal model-code permit exemptions and county house-construction inspection statutes do not create a county fence-height allowance or a general private-fence approval process.

Floodplain development. The county’s 2024 Flood Damage Prevention Order, adopted July 1, 2024 and effective July 17, 2024, requires a floodplain development permit within its applicable unincorporated special flood hazard areas. “Development” includes manmade changes such as filling, grading, paving, excavation, drilling and storage of equipment or materials. Fence-post excavation and associated site changes must be considered under that development requirement; a fence is not automatically exempt because it is not a building.

Floodplain application details. Apply to the Floodplain Administrator using the furnished forms. The application may require duplicate plans drawn to scale showing the location, dimensions and elevation of proposed landscape alterations, existing/proposed structures and their relationship to the special flood hazard area. Describe any alteration or relocation of a watercourse or natural drainage. Lowest-floor, nonresidential floodproofing and on-site sewage certifications apply when those particular improvements are involved; they are not universal fence submittals. Review considers flooding and erosion danger, possible movement of materials onto other land, compatibility, safe access, public-service costs, flood characteristics and alternative locations. The administrator may update the application requirements.

County property and public corridors. Section IX of the development manual requires Development Authorization for its covered county-property/facility activities, including road rights-of-way. Driveways, utilities, mailboxes, landscaping and other encroachments into the covered public right-of-way or easements need authorization. Construction, land disturbance and temporary or permanent structures on, in, above or under county property require prior Commissioner approval. A proposed fence in such a corridor needs this separate review; this is not a permit for every fence wholly within a private yard. The manual’s authorized-government-business and emergency exceptions do not supply ordinary homeowner permission.

Driveways and culverts. Obtain the applicable precinct approval for county-road access work and TxDOT approval for a new or modified state-highway connection. Under the manual’s county-right-of-way culvert procedure, the owner pays for infrastructure materials and the county supplies installation labor. An owner proposing another installation arrangement must submit a written request and obtain formal Commissioner approval before work. A fence or gate project should not include an unapproved driveway or culvert change.

Subdivision and other site approvals. The manual’s land-division/development process is separate from ordinary fence treatment. Its agricultural-primary-use plat exemption and other statutory/manual exemptions have their own conditions; ending the qualifying primary agricultural use can require compliance as a newly divided tract. A division into larger tracts is not automatically exempt from every requirement. Applicable floodplain, on-site sewage, manufactured-home-community, minor-project and county-property approvals depend on the actual improvements, rather than the mere presence of a home or fence. Existing plat, development-plan and easement conditions may continue to affect fence work.

Construction stormwater. Within the relevant MS4/program territory, disturbance of at least one acre, or a smaller activity that is part of a common plan ultimately disturbing at least one acre, can trigger construction-stormwater requirements. Actual discharge, permit and site conditions matter. A standard fence project is not automatically a regulated development simply because a stormwater department or drainage district exists.

Variances and appeals. Under the development manual, a variance request goes through the Commissioner with justifying documentation certified by a Professional Engineer; Commissioners Court approval or rejection is recorded in its minutes. The manual’s 10-business-day rejected-plat/plan appeal is not a universal fence-permit appeal. Under the flood order, Commissioners Court hears variance requests and appeals alleging administrator error. Flood variances must provide the minimum necessary relief, show good and sufficient cause and exceptional hardship, and avoid the prohibited increased flood heights, public-safety threats, extraordinary public expense, nuisances, fraud/victimization and legal conflicts. No floodway variance may cause an increase in base-flood levels. Historic-structure and qualifying small-lot provisions have their own conditions and do not create ordinary fence exemptions.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

Property boundaries and public-road setback lines. The county does not publish a general front-, side- or rear-property-line fence setback. Where the development manual applies, Section III(A)(2) establishes building setback lines 50 feet from the right-of-way edge on major highways and roads and 25 feet from the right-of-way edge on other public roads, on each side of the roadway. Section V(C)(2) expressly prohibits above-grade construction, including fences, within the established public-road building setback lines. The applicable plat, road classification and manual application provisions must be checked. These distances are not measured from pavement and are not universal side/rear setbacks or retroactive requirements for every older lot.

Drainage easements. Section III(B)(4) of the manual expressly prohibits buildings, fences and other above-grade construction in its applicable drainage easements. Actual recorded easement boundaries matter. The manual’s minimum 10-foot drainage-easement creation requirement is not a universal 10-foot fence setback from a ditch, creek or property line. Utility-easement dedication widths likewise do not automatically establish fence setbacks or a blanket ban in every utility easement; the recorded instrument and utility access rights govern that question.

Road access, gates and visibility. Keep public roads clear of obstructions and obtain authorization for covered right-of-way encroachments. Under applicable manual access provisions, a residential lot may have at most two driveways per street frontage, with at least 40 feet between proposed driveway edges. Residential lots accessing arterial streets must provide a turnaround unless the Commissioner determines that it is physically impractical. Vehicles may not back onto an arterial. A fence or gate must preserve the applicable access/turnaround arrangement. These development/access provisions do not require reconstruction of every existing driveway when a fence is replaced. An association’s possible gate setback is a separate private-restriction issue below.

Drainage and grading. Applicable manual lot-grading provisions prohibit blocking drainage from adjacent properties and require drainage/outfalls that avoid nuisance ponding. Its development runoff criteria restrict increases in the 100-year post-project flow over pre-project conditions, subject to the stated capacity-analysis waiver; the waiver cannot send increased runoff through or adversely affect other properties. This does not impose a hydraulic study on every fence post. Water Code Section 11.086 separately restricts diversion or impoundment of natural surface water that damages another’s property by overflow, subject to its lawful flood-control and irrigation qualifications. Where gullies or sloughs cut or intersect river/creek banks and allow floodwater onto nearby land, Section 11.086(d) permits the flooded landowner to fill their mouths up to the adjoining bank height without liability to other property owners. The flood-control/irrigation qualification does not authorize a canal, lateral canal or ditch obstructing a well-defined natural drainage. Do not dam a drainage path as part of fence or wall work.

Drainage nuisances. In its applicable unincorporated scope, Health and Safety Code Chapter 343 addresses filling or blocking a drainage easement, failing to maintain it, clogging it with debris, sediment or vegetation, or violating a county maintenance/improvement agreement. Section 343.011(d) excludes land qualifying for agricultural tax appraisal under Subchapter C or D, Chapter 23, Tax Code, and sites/facilities permitted and regulated by a state agency, or licensed/permitted under Chapter 361, for the relevant activity. Other independently applicable drainage, easement and water laws remain separate.

Floodplain and floodway placement. The flood order incorporates the July 17, 2024 Flood Insurance Study and maps and their revisions. Where no regulatory floodway is designated, development in Zones A1–30 and AE must demonstrate that its cumulative effect with existing and anticipated development will not raise the base-flood water surface more than one foot anywhere in the community. The order preserves the separate prior-completion process under 44 CFR 65.12 for specified greater-rise development. In an adopted regulatory floodway, encroachments, including other development, are prohibited unless hydrologic/hydraulic analysis using standard engineering practice demonstrates no increase in flood levels during the base-flood discharge; the order also preserves the separate 65.12 process. No general agricultural or open-wire fence exception is stated.

Pipeline easements. The manual’s petroleum-pipeline building line—25 feet on each side of the easement centerline, or the easement edge when the easement exceeds 50 feet wide—is not an established universal fence setback. Separate pipeline easement rights and Health and Safety Code Sections 756.121–.123 can govern construction on, across, over or under a pipeline easement/right-of-way, or construction creating pipeline risk. Subject to the statute’s contrary written-agreement and specified municipal/navigation/port-property exceptions, notify the operator and satisfy the applicable route: an operator no-increased-risk determination; payment of reasonable, necessary, documented protective-work costs before proceeding where risk increases; construction under an existing written agreement; or the specified prompt natural-disaster work by a regulated utility. An 811 ticket does not replace this construction review.

Shared and attached fences. Agriculture Code Sections 143.121–.123 govern removal of certain jointly owned separating fences and fences attached to another’s fence. Do not remove those fences without mutual consent or the applicable statutory process. An owner with an interest in a fence attached to another’s wholly or partly owned fence may withdraw their own fence after six months’ written notice to the attached-fence owner or that person’s agent, attorney or lessee. An owner of a fence wholly on their own land may require an attached fence’s owner to disconnect and withdraw it after the same written-notice period to the specified recipient. These are not six-month notice rules for every fence removal.

Confirm the actual line. A deed, plat, survey, recorded easement and public right-of-way describe different interests. An existing fence, hedge, tree line, ditch, mowing line, curb, pavement edge or tax/GIS line does not by itself establish the legal boundary. Public approval does not decide ownership, attachment rights or cost sharing.

Utility notice scope and timing. Utilities Code Chapter 251 generally covers explosives or powered/mechanized excavation, including an auger, disturbing soil at least 16 inches deep. Its ordinary notice window is no earlier than the 14th day before the start and no later than 48 hours before the start, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Its Saturday-notice provision permits a Tuesday 11:59 a.m. start, or Wednesday at that time if Monday is a holiday. Notice must identify the site, excavator/contact and response information, planned start/completion and explosives use and be received within the lawful window. Narrow emergency, defined agricultural-operation and own-and-operate-all-facilities exceptions have their own conditions; they are not blanket homeowner exemptions. The statutory facility classes also differ: Class A includes electric, gas, petroleum and telecommunications facilities, while water, slurry and sewage facilities are Class B and may voluntarily convert as provided by law.

Separate pipeline excavation rules. Pipeline damage-prevention rules under Railroad Commission Chapter 18 can cover manual excavation deeper than 16 inches; they are distinct from the Utilities Code threshold. Chapter 18 generally uses working days, a 14-working-day ticket life, refresh of unfinished areas unless a qualifying written agreement applies, and at least four years of required locate/response records. A valid ticket alone is not clearance: inspect the site, reconcile markings and responses, and use the required second-notice procedure where necessary; its conditional four-hour response process is not automatic permission after a first request. Use reasonable care and the applicable hand/soft/vacuum/pneumatic or operator-approved methods in the pipeline tolerance zone; do not assume one universal tolerance-zone rule for all utilities. Not every private line is located.

Damage reporting. If damage occurs, immediately report it to the operator, or notification center if the operator is unknown, allow only authorized repair, and do not backfill the immediate area before reporting and agreeing on the repair schedule. Keep ignition sources away where flammable release is possible.

Texas811 before post digging: use the Texas811 excavation and locate guidance to request a locate, wait the applicable notice period, follow ticket/start instructions, check operator responses and site markings, resolve missing or conflicting information through the current notice process, protect marks and dig carefully. Permits, owner permission, easement rights and pipeline construction notice remain separate.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

Ordinary yard fences. Victoria County does not publish a general front-, side- or rear-yard fence-height maximum, a general fence-height measurement method, a retaining-wall/fence combined-height formula or numerical fence sight triangles for ordinary unincorporated residential lots. That does not establish unrestricted height, opacity or placement. Applicable public-road setback lines, access/turnaround requirements, drainage/easement restrictions, floodplain conditions, recorded development conditions and private restrictions still matter, including at corner lots and driveways.

Different kinds of height rules. The dangerous-dog enclosure minimum below is animal-specific. Agricultural sufficient-fence heights apply only in their statutory setting. The six-foot description of an HOA-protected swimming-pool enclosure is a definition of that protection, not a county yard-fence maximum or a general pool-barrier minimum. No model-code permit-exemption height supplies a county height allowance.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

Ordinary materials. The county does not publish an ordinary material-specific fence standard for wood or chain-link; vinyl/PVC is not specifically addressed. Its published ordinary fence requirements do not establish separate permissions or prohibitions for masonry, composite, metal/wire, barbed wire, razor wire, electric fencing or high-tensile fencing, or general finished-side, post/cap, opacity or fence/wall-combination standards. Silence does not establish that a material or construction method is permitted at a particular site. Applicable animal, agricultural, pool, easement and private requirements must be considered separately.

Dangerous dogs. The county’s superseding dangerous-dog order, approved August 17, 2015, requires the defined dangerous dog to be confined in a secure enclosure except for the specified controlled handling outside it. The enclosure must be at least six feet high, locked, capable of preventing entry by the public including children, capable of preventing escape or release of the dog, and clearly marked as containing a dangerous dog. Outside that enclosure, the order requires a leash no longer than six feet, immediate personal control and a muzzle. This applies to the order’s dangerous-dog classification, not every pet or ordinary yard fence.

Guard dogs and emergency restraint. A dog specifically trained to attack and maintained to protect persons or property must be physically confined to a specific area or under complete and absolute control. Premises where such a guard dog is confined require conspicuous warning signs with letters at least two inches high. Separately, the order’s ordinary-dog restraint provision operates through a published 90-day emergency proclamation, renewable as prescribed; it is not a permanent countywide fence mandate merely because it appears in the order. The running-at-large definition refers to sufficiently strong building/wall/fence confinement and specified leash, handling or direct-supervision exceptions.

Abandoned pools. Health and Safety Code Section 343.011(c)(6) addresses a pool on property that is both abandoned and unoccupied in a statutory neighborhood in unincorporated county territory. It requires a fence at least four feet high with a latched and locked gate, and a cover over the entire pool that cannot be removed by a child. “Neighborhood” includes a platted subdivision or property contiguous to and within 300 feet of one; Section 343.011(d) excludes agricultural land qualifying for tax appraisal under Subchapter C or D, Chapter 23, Tax Code, and sites/facilities permitted and regulated by a state agency, or licensed/permitted under Chapter 361, for the relevant activity. This is not a fence-or-cover alternative or a general rule for every occupied backyard pool.

Other pool uses. Victoria County has not adopted a general private-home ISPSC barrier standard through its stated county building-code program. That does not determine every pool’s requirements: association, multiunit-rental and public/common-use pools have separate statutory classifications and safety regimes. A privately owned common-use pool is not necessarily a private single-family pool. Confirm the actual pool use and applicable safety requirements with Environmental Services before selecting a barrier. HOA protections for a qualifying water-feature enclosure are addressed below.

Rural homes and cultivated land. Agricultural fence rules can apply to residential acreage. Agriculture Code Section 143.001 generally requires a gardener or farmer to enclose cleared land in cultivation with a sufficient fence at least five feet high that prevents hog passage, subject to the chapter’s local-option stock-law qualification. Section 143.002 prohibits building, joining or maintaining more than three lineal miles of fence running in the same general direction around cleared cultivated land without an unlocked gate at least 10 feet wide.

Stock-law-specific construction. Local-option stock laws depend on the actual election, territory and animal class. Where the Section 143.028 regime applies, a person need not fence against animals prohibited from running at large; the sufficient-fence standard concerns ordinary livestock permitted to run at large. Its fence must be at least four feet high, with the applicable construction: three barbed wires on posts no more than 30 feet apart with at least one stay between posts; pickets no more than six inches apart; three boards at least five inches wide and one inch thick; or four rails. The statute also provides a local-election variant concerning three barbed wires without a board. Under the separately adopted cattle/domestic-turkey regime, Section 143.077 instead tests whether the fence keeps out the classes of animals not affected by that subchapter. These are conditional agricultural standards, not ordinary privacy-fence requirements or a statement that every part of Victoria County has the same stock-law status. Establish the property’s actual animal/territory rules before choosing a livestock fence.

Agricultural operations and improvements. Under Agriculture Code Section 251.005, a non-city governmental requirement generally applies when the agricultural operation’s established date follows the requirement’s effective date and does not apply when the established operation predates it; the statute also preserves a requirement that was already effective and applicable before the chapter took effect. A requirement’s effective date is when it requires or attempts compliance in the operation’s geographic area. City agricultural requirements do not apply outside city limits under that section. Section 251.006 protects qualifying agricultural improvements, including fences designed for its stated animal, produce/feed or agricultural-equipment functions, when not expressly prohibited by statute or a qualifying governmental requirement effective when constructed. State and federal statutory enforcement remains available. These protections depend on the land, operation and improvement; acreage or a residential address alone does not create a blanket exemption from all fence controls. Livestock owners also must consider the distinct statutory prohibition against knowingly allowing listed livestock to roam unattended on covered U.S./state-highway rights-of-way; that particular highway definition excludes numbered farm-to-market roads, without deciding other duties on those roads.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

Separate property obligations. Recorded covenants, HOA/architectural requirements, subdivision restrictions, private easements, conservation restrictions and maintenance or cost-sharing agreements can affect a fence independently of county approvals. Review the documents for the actual property. A public approval does not establish ownership, allocate fence costs or authorize interference with another’s easement. Private restrictions remain subject to applicable Texas statutory limits.

Security and perimeter fences. Texas Property Code Chapter 202 limits an association’s ability to prohibit security measures, including perimeter fencing, while preserving specific controls. Section 202.023 does not apply to Chapter 81/82 condominiums or Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations. For covered associations, fence type may be regulated; fencing may be prohibited from obstructing a license area defined by agreement/plat, a public or community sidewalk, or a drainage easement/area. An association may require a driveway gate to be set back at least 10 feet from the right-of-way when the driveway meets a laned roadway. A restrictive covenant may prohibit fencing in front of the dwelling’s front-most building line. This is not a universal county gate setback.

2025 exceptions. Notwithstanding Section 202.023(c), an owner may maintain perimeter or front-building-line fencing installed or constructed before September 1, 2025. This maintenance protection does not automatically establish expanded replacement rights. The front-building-line prohibition cannot be enforced against installation where the owner’s residential address is exempt from public disclosure under state/federal law or the owner supplies law-enforcement documentation of a need for enhanced security. That exception overrides the front-building-line restriction, not every other statutory control.

Qualifying water-feature enclosures. Section 202.022 protects installation of a safety-compliant enclosure surrounding a water feature such as a pool or spa when it consists of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames, is no more than six feet high and is designed not to be climbable. An association may regulate appearance and colors but cannot prohibit a black transparent-mesh enclosure in metal frames within this protection. The statutory definition is not the county’s ordinary fence maximum or a substitute for applicable pool safety law.

Other private design questions. Recorded restrictions or property-specific development conditions may address materials, location, height, gates and review procedures. A rule allowing an association to restrict a solar device that extends above a fenced yard or patio does not itself authorize raising the fence. Obtain the appropriate private review without treating it as a substitute for public approvals.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

Fence issues are typically reviewed during permit or approval review when required, and through complaint-based code enforcement. Examples include:

Applicable subdivision/plat public-road setback lines, drainage-easement restrictions and development conditions.
County-property/right-of-way encroachments, driveway/culvert work and TxDOT state-highway access.
Floodplain development applications, floodway encroachments and drainage or grading effects.
Applicable stormwater activity, drainage-district territory and recorded utility/pipeline access or construction duties.
Abandoned-pool hazards, dangerous-dog enclosures and specifically trained guard-dog confinement/signs.
Applicable rural agricultural/stock-law requirements and statutory shared/attached-fence removal conditions.

Commissioners Court handles the manual and flood-order variance/appeal routes described under Permit and Approval Requirements. The applicable process and conditions depend on which requirement is involved.

Private association review, covenant disputes, boundary/ownership questions and cost agreements are separate from public enforcement. The presence of county approval or the absence of a building permit does not resolve those private matters.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within unincorporated Victoria County, Texas. Updated November 2026.

In addition to local fence rules, certain Texas laws apply statewide. See Statewide Fence Laws in Texas.

It is not legal advice and does not replace official statutes, ordinances, orders, permits, certificates, development approvals, applicable building-code requirements, surveys, recorded documents or professional guidance. Rules and interpretations may change, and application may vary with municipal or unincorporated location, applicable extraterritorial authority, zoning or special-area status, code adoption and amendments, site conditions, subdivision or plat conditions, easements, rights-of-way, drainage and floodplain requirements, historic or design districts, pool use, agricultural operations and stock laws, fence ownership or attachment, coastal or public-access conditions, utility and pipeline excavation requirements, and private restrictions subject to Texas law. Before purchasing materials or beginning construction, confirm current requirements and site-specific limitations with Victoria County Engineering & Development and the responsible office for each applicable issue, and review applicable private agreements. If this page conflicts with controlling law, adopted regulations or official requirements, the controlling authorities govern. For legal advice or legal interpretation, consult a licensed attorney.