FENCE RULES – PARIS (CITY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page applies to residential fence work within the corporate limits of the City of Paris, Texas, in Lamar County.

Paris regulates fences through its fence article, zoning ordinance, construction codes and historic standards. A conforming fence seven feet or less generally does not need the fence-article permit, but automated gates, taller fences, retaining walls and certain masonry work have separate requirements. Side and rear fences can reach eight feet in the stated locations. Published front-yard provisions differ between 40 and 42 inches. Wood and PVC are recognized, while chain-link is restricted in front yards and historic settings. Corner visibility, drainage easements, historic approval, pools and agricultural use can change the design or approval needed. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Paris answer
Permit or approval	Article 4.11 expressly allows conforming fences seven feet or less without its permit. Fences over seven feet, automated gate systems and retaining-wall systems 48 inches or taller require a permit. Masonry over four feet, historic work and drainage-easement fencing have separate approval requirements.
Typical fence height	Side and rear property-line fences: generally eight feet up to the principal building line. Front yards: the fence article publishes 42 inches, while zoning publishes 40 inches. Confirm the applicable front limit with Building Safety; visibility and historic conditions also apply.
Placement & property lines	Side and rear property-line fencing is recognized, subject to easements, public property, drainage and visibility limits. Vacant lots and historic property have additional placement provisions. A fence cannot extend onto neighboring property or obstruct required public or utility access.
Common fence materials	Wood: durable or treated wood is recognized. Vinyl/PVC: PVC is recognized citywide, but historic standards prohibit vinyl. Chain-link: recognized, with a finished-top rule below five feet; prohibited in ordinary residential front yards and restricted by historic standards.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by corner and double-frontage lots, historic districts or landmarks, required subdivision screening walls, drainage and utility easements, floodplain or floodway conditions, pool use, planned-development conditions, agricultural operations, animal enclosures and private restrictions.
Official local resource	City of Paris Building Safety

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 your property, review the linked official sources, and confirm site-specific questions with City of Paris Building Safety or the responsible office identified for the issue.

GOVERNANCE

Paris is an incorporated home-rule city. The City Council adopts its ordinances. The main local fence provisions are in Article 4.11, Fences, with additional zoning, historic, floodplain, street and site requirements. Hedges and planted barriers can count as fences. Historic equipment-screening devices have a separate treatment.

Building Safety and the Chief Building Official administer fence permits, plans and completion inspections. Community Development administers zoning and investigates fence complaints. The City Engineer handles the specified masonry-plan, drainage-easement and sight-distance decisions. The Historic Preservation Commission and Director of Community Development/Historic Preservation Officer administer historic review. The Board of Adjustment handles fence variances; the City Manager or designee administers the floodplain program. Parks and Recreation handles protected-tree removal approval, and the Police Department’s Animal Control Division administers animal-enclosure requirements.

Paris has adopted the 2024 International Residential Code with local amendments. Ordinance 2026-040 replaces the previously adopted electrical code with the 2026 National Electrical Code, relevant to electrical work such as powered-gate wiring. Utility operators, pipeline operators and state agencies have separate responsibilities. A municipal permit does not determine property ownership or replace recorded easement rights.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• Fence-article permit: A conforming fence seven feet or less is expressly allowed without the Article 4.11 permit. A permit from the Chief Building Official is required to install, alter, add to or change a fence over seven feet, an automated opening-and-closing gate system, or a retaining-wall system 48 inches or taller. An eight-foot fence therefore falls within the permit requirement even where its location allows that height.

• Permit documents and fees: Pay the applicable Appendix A fee before issuance. Submit a plot plan showing lot size, existing improvements and the proposed fence location. It must provide enough information for review, although it need not be a formal plat. Detailed fence plans are required; the official may require revisions, manufacturer specifications, structural and wind-loading information, and installation instructions. The local residential-code amendment deletes the model application’s valuation-of-work item.

• Engineered work: An over-seven-foot privacy or fully opaque fence requires an engineered plan as required by the IBC. Independently, a stone, masonry, brick or similar wall/fence over four feet requires properly drawn plans sealed by a registered professional engineer and City Engineer approval before construction.

• Completion inspection: Notify the Chief Building Official when a permitted fence is complete. The official inspects and accepts or rejects the work. A noncompliant fence must be removed or replaced with a compliant fence.

• Drainage easement: Before building a fence within a drainage easement, obtain the City Engineer’s written determination to the Chief Building Official that the fence probably will not interfere with or impair natural water flow.

• Historic property: A Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) can be required even when a building permit is unnecessary. Fence installation or alteration is expressly a minor exterior alteration. Obtain the applicable historic approval before work; building and historic reviews can proceed together. Ordinary in-kind maintenance that does not change design, material, color or outward appearance is excluded as determined by the Director. The City’s historic design standards provide the route to the applicable guidelines.

• Historic application and timing: Provide the project description, photographs, drawings and material information. The current fence form calls for lot shape/dimensions, proposed fence location/size/height, existing-fence information, material/style/color examples and intended work dates. For commission review, submit the complete package at least 15 days before the monthly meeting and have the applicant or agent attend. A separate minor-review path also exists. The Director’s minor decision is due within five working days; the commission acts within 30 calendar days of a complete application. A minor decision can be appealed within 30 calendar days; a commission decision can be appealed to the Council through the City Clerk within 30 calendar days of receipt. A COA expires if work has not begun within six months or is not complete within one year.

• Flood-hazard work: Article 4.07 establishes a development permit for work in mapped special-flood-hazard areas. Development includes fill, grading, excavation and other land changes. The floodplain administrator may require duplicate scaled plans with location, dimensions and elevations, including landscape changes and altered drainage or watercourses, plus applicable certifications.

• Protected trees affected by fence work: Prior Parks and Recreation approval is required for removal of a protected tree: trunk circumference 60 inches or more, measured 4½ feet above natural grade. Removal includes work reasonably expected to kill the tree, including root damage, soil compaction or significant grade changes. A hazardous damaged part can be removed without application before the beginning of the fifth business day after damage, subject to the stated widespread-storm extension.

When tree-removal approval requires a replacement tree, it must be planted within twelve months.

• Pool use and the local adoption uncertainty: Paris adopts the 2024 residential code, but its local R102.4 amendment makes referenced codes part of the requirements “when specifically adopted.” The enumerated adoptions do not expressly name the referenced swimming-pool code. This leaves uncertainty about the application of that model code’s barrier dimensions in Paris. Confirm the applicable pool-barrier requirements with Building Safety before using a yard fence as pool protection.

Supported local pool requirements remain separate: a registered pool contractor is responsible for the permitted project’s fences, gates, alarms and required inspections and trade permits. The local pool/spa amendment requires a 1:1 relationship between pool/spa depth and distance from the nearest building foundation or retaining-wall footing, with an exception for a sealed engineered design drawing submitted for approval. Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 757 governs its defined multiunit/association pool settings; those provisions do not supply a universal private-home barrier rule.

• Fence variance: The Board of Adjustment must find the stated unique circumstances and undue burden, no adverse effect on current or future development, consistency with the ordinance’s spirit with minimal surrounding-land-use impact, and no adverse public health, safety or welfare effect. Financial hardship alone is insufficient.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Property lines and yards: Article 4.11 recognizes fences on side and rear property lines, subject to the other placement controls. Locate the legal boundary, recorded easements, public right-of-way and utilities before installation. A curb, pavement edge, hedge or existing fence is not a substitute for a survey or recorded boundary. Fence posts, braces and other parts must remain within lawful placement.

• Which yard faces the street: The fence article’s front yard extends across the lot ahead of the principal structure’s front-most corners, including specified unenclosed porches, carports, porticos and projections. Side and rear yards follow the principal structure and lot lines. Corner property includes street/alley, street/driveway or parking-lot combinations, two streets, and the stated differing-yard relationship between neighboring lots.

• Double frontage and corners: A lot running between two streets generally has a front yard on both streets unless an accessory-building line established by plat or ordinance provides the exception. Specified one- and two-family corner lots also treat both street exposures as fronts unless an approved plat establishes a side building line of at least ten feet. Yard classification affects the applicable fence rule.

• Vacant residential lot: A fence cannot extend beyond the average front setback of adjacent structures in the same block.

• Public property and easements: Fences, guy wires, braces and structural members cannot occupy or project over property under city/public ownership, control or easement except the article’s stated utility-easement treatment. Preserve recorded access rights. Fencing cannot deny access to or visibility of fire hydrants, water-meter wells or other utility meters, or illegally restrict vehicle/pedestrian visibility.

• Drainage and surface water: A fence or live hedge cannot disrupt or divert natural water flow. Drainage-easement work requires the written engineering determination described above. Texas Water Code 11.086 also restricts damaging diversion or impoundment of natural surface water. Preserve drainage channels and maintenance access when locating posts, walls and gates.

• Mapped floodplain and floodway: In A1–30/AE areas without a designated floodway, the ordinance generally requires a showing that combined development will not raise the base-flood surface more than one foot, subject to the specified federal approval process. In a designated floodway, encroachments including fill/development require hydraulic analysis demonstrating no increase in base-flood levels. A floodway variance cannot allow an increase. Floodplain variances otherwise require the stated good cause, exceptional hardship, minimum necessary relief and no prohibited adverse effects.

• Existing subdivision screening wall: A recorded screening-wall condition can affect a homeowner’s replacement fence. Required masonry-wall provisions include a maintenance easement at least five feet wide within abutting residential lots, Engineer approval for easement encroachment, drainage without ponding and design movement no greater than one inch in eight feet. Along a residential alley, the wall face/column is normally at least one foot from the line, subject to stated site constraints. These are required-wall conditions rather than a general yard-fence setback.

• Historic and planned-development placement: Historic guidelines call for established property lines and, in most residential historic applications, a fence at or behind the building setback line. The house style and historical presence of a fence matter. An adopted planned-development ordinance/site plan can impose property-specific fence conditions. Review the applicable plat, easements and adopted conditions before replacing an existing fence.

• Parkway hedges: Parkway planting needs the City Manager’s written permit identifying type/location. Vegetation cannot hide hydrants or traffic signs or obstruct sidewalk passage. The street article’s defined sidewalk area reaches one foot inside the sidewalk, or seven feet inside the curb where there is no sidewalk.

• Irrigation beside a fence: For a new irrigation system, pop-up/rotary heads must direct spray away and be at least four inches from a fence or other hardscape. Irrigation cannot spray over impervious fences or walls. This governs the irrigation layout and operation.

• Removing a joint or attached fence: Agriculture Code 143.121 restricts removal of a joint dividing fence or another person’s attached fence without mutual consent or the statutory process. A person owning an interest in a fence attached to another fence may withdraw their own fence after the required six-month written notice. A fence owner whose fence is wholly on their own land can require an attached fence to be disconnected through the separate six-month written-notice provision. Ownership, the attachment and the proper recipient control which rule applies.

• Texas811 before post digging: Request a locate through Texas811 before digging. For covered Utilities Code excavation, including powered/mechanized work reaching 16 inches or more, notice must be no earlier than the fourteenth day and no later than the forty-eighth hour before work, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. For Saturday notification provided before 11:59 a.m., the statute permits a Tuesday 11:59 a.m. start, or Wednesday 11:59 a.m. if Monday is a holiday. Follow the ticket’s lawful start instructions, check responses and site marks, resolve missing/conflicting information, protect marks and dig carefully. Private service lines and other exempt facilities may need separate locating.

The Utilities Code has specific exceptions for qualifying private-property agricultural operations, emergencies, and a person who owns or leases the land or holds a mineral leasehold interest and operates every underground facility at the excavation site. Agricultural operations use the Tax Code definition; acreage or ownership alone does not establish an exception. Emergency work may start immediately with reasonable care and prompt notification. These exceptions do not automatically waive separate pipeline requirements.

Pipeline rules are a separate layer and can cover manual digging beyond 16 inches. The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) tickets generally last 14 working days from original notice unless a qualifying written agreement extends them; refresh unfinished work and keep required locate/response records for four years. Missing, unclear or obviously erroneous pipeline responses require the applicable second-notice process. An unanswered first request is not clearance. The RRC tolerance-zone definition uses half the nominal pipeline diameter plus at least 18 inches on either side of its outside edge on a horizontal plane. Use the required reasonable-care methods, including hand, soft, vacuum or pneumatic excavation; other methods need operator approval, with the stated pavement-removal exception.

Report utility damage immediately and use only operator-authorized repairs. Follow the backfill restrictions and keep ignition sources away from a flammable release. Pipeline damage also has the RRC’s earliest-practical/no-later-than-one-hour notification requirement, operator approval before covering an exposed pipeline, and 30-day damage-report requirement. Construction on, across, over or under a pipeline easement, or work increasing pipeline risk, can require the separate Health and Safety Code 756 notice/protective-work process; an applicable written agreement and statutory exceptions can change that process. An 811 ticket does not grant easement or construction permission.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

Paris’s zoning ordinance and fence article publish different front-yard numbers. Article 4.11 permits up to 42 inches in the stated residential front-yard location, while zoning section 9-502(3) states 40 inches above average yard grade. Obtain Building Safety’s determination of the applicable front limit before construction.

• Height measurement: The fence article measures from the existing average grade of adjoining properties to the top of the tallest structural member. Its average-grade definition is the midpoint between the lowest and highest finished ground, paving or sidewalk elevation.

• Residential front yard: The fence-article height provision applies between the front building line and street right-of-way. Front fencing must be at least 50 percent open for air and light. Ornamental examples include split rail, picket, decorated metal and brick; chain-link, wire and similar fencing are excluded from that residential ornamental allowance.

• Other stated front-yard branches: The article specifically addresses historic-overlay lots under adopted design standards with a 42-inch ceiling, single-family lots over two acres, and lots zoned and used LI/HI. District, use and historic review remain important to the front-yard determination.

• Side, rear and residential corners: Side and rear property-line fencing may reach eight feet up to the principal building line. The eight-foot rule also covers stated residential corner lots whose rear lines oppose each other directly or across an alley. Visibility restrictions still control. A fence beside a required subdivision screening wall, parallel or perpendicular, cannot exceed that wall’s height without a Board of Adjustment variance.

• Tennis court: A court enclosure may reach 12 feet, using chain-link or other open-view material to minimize visual impact. Fence arms are prohibited.

• Fence-article sight triangle: No fence is allowed in the specified corner sight triangle. Measure 25 feet along the pavement edges of intersecting local streets/alleyways, or 35 feet along an arterial, and join the endpoints diagonally. The Engineer may require additional sight distance for specific safety conditions.

• Separate street-corner rule: Section 10.05.186 prohibits fences, vegetation and other objects over three feet above the nearest abutting street’s center level in a triangle measured 20 feet along the property lines from their street-corner intersection. That uses a different datum and geometry; it does not authorize a three-foot fence inside the fence article’s no-fence triangle.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• Recognized materials: Citywide Article 4.11 recognizes stone, masonry, brick, wrought iron, durable or treated wood, PVC and chain-link. The Chief Building Official can determine whether like-kind alternatives have equivalent quality, appearance and durability. Materials must be customary in residential landscaping, complementary throughout the property, installed neatly to manufacturer specifications and properly maintained.

• Chain-link: Residential chain-link below five feet must have the finished fabric edge at the top. Chain-link is prohibited in front yards except industrial uses. Historic standards impose additional prohibitions.

• Prohibited materials and supports: The article prohibits T-post structural supports; rope, cable, railroad ties and utility poles; nonpermanent or temporary-use materials; corn-cribbing/snow fencing; sheet metal, fiberglass, solid plywood, scrap lumber and pallets; and common concrete, hadite and nondecorative cinderblock. The city-recreation cable exception does not apply to a private residential yard.

• Wire, electric fencing and agricultural acreage: Chicken/welded/hog wire and other penning materials require land both zoned and actively used agriculturally; qualifying pens must remain at least 100 feet from single-/multifamily-zoned property used residentially. The separate T-post prohibition remains. Electric fences are restricted to agricultural districts and prohibited beside the specified residentially zoned/used lots. Barbed wire is allowed on agricultural property over four acres and in LI/HI, with the agricultural residential-adjacency prohibition. Applicable state agricultural protections can affect local requirements.

• Arms, sharp attachments and electrical systems: Arms are allowed only in LI/HI and cannot extend beyond the property line. Spikes, nails, barbed/razor wire and other sharp attachments, and electrical fence installations, are prohibited except as expressly allowed by the article. Automated gates have their separate permit requirement.

• Gates and post orientation: Every fenced enclosure requires at least one perimeter gate. Privacy-fence posts may face either direction, except that a fence facing public right-of-way, park, school or another public area must have the post side toward the installing owner’s property.

• Historic materials: For property governed by the general historic standards, retain/repair original fencing and match the house’s style. The standards prohibit chain-link, plywood, vinyl and concrete, and prohibit front-yard walls. They describe suitable metal, style-appropriate wood picket or masonry, and garden-loop fencing. The welded-wire glossary alternative and garden-loop recommendation are not fully aligned with the citywide nonagricultural penning-wire and residential-front wire restrictions; resolve a proposed wire design through the applicable city/historic review.

• Residence in Commercial Historic District HD-1: The fencing addendum provides case-by-case commission/Historic Preservation Officer review. Repair original fencing, follow established property lines, and support alley gates independently without damaging or attaching to historic brick buildings. The addendum calls for ornamental metal with square/round vertical tubing and capped/finial tops, powder-coated in an approved historic color. The current minor form specifies decorative powder-coated steel tubing. Chain-link, wood, vinyl, concrete and guardrail materials, including steel-pipe guardrail construction, are prohibited in this setting.

Historic requirements depend on the actual district or landmark designation, including the Commercial, Church Street and Pine Bluff Fitzhugh districts. Residential historic guidance calls for fence style/history compatibility and prohibits chain-link; in most applications, fencing belongs at or behind the building setback line.

• Maintenance and an older fence: Keep fences, walls and hedges safe, substantial and free from disrepair; repair, remove or replace damaged, dead or missing elements as the article requires. Hazardous unstable fencing and piled unauthorized broken masonry are prohibited. A lawful nonconforming fence may continue with limited maintenance/repair, but cannot be enlarged, made more nonconforming, moved to remain nonconforming or structurally altered to prolong its life as prohibited. Eliminated nonconformity cannot be restored. Damage, deterioration or destruction of 35 percent or more of its surface area or a separable element requires conformity or removal.

• Screened residential storage: In the listed residential and related districts, outside-storage provisions include a solid-fence/wall/dense-landscaping screening exception. Outside storage is defined by more than 72 hours within twelve months; firewood in front/side setbacks must be screened from public view May 1–September 30. A collector’s antique/special-interest vehicle exception requires lawful, orderly storage without health hazard and screening from ordinary public view; the ordinance also has a separate approved-carport/fitted-cover alternative. Specified vacant-lot vehicle-parking restrictions have a defense for parking behind a lawful screened fence. Other fence and nuisance requirements still apply.

• Dogs and special dangerous-animal enclosures: An ordinary dog fence must prevent escape even before an escape occurs; confinement by an enclosure and the lawful restraint alternatives remain subject to the animal code. A regulated dangerous-animal outdoor kennel/pen requires a roof fastened to vertical walls submerged in impervious material, minimum six-foot height and five-by-ten-foot dimensions, child-entry/escape resistance, secure locking, weather protection, daily waste removal and dangerous-animal marking.

• Backyard fowl and small-animal pens: Fowl enclosures must prevent escape. Loud-fowl enclosures require 75 feet from another residence, business or school; the residential hen provision limits hens to six with 75 feet from another inhabited dwelling. The stated newly annexed-acreage delay is twelve months. Pigeon enclosures require 30 feet from another residence and 50 feet from an adjoining/adjacent pool. Rabbit/guinea-pig enclosures require 50 feet from another inhabited dwelling, excluding the keeper’s; rabbit enclosures must contain the animals and prevent waste dropping to the ground.

• Livestock at a residence: Where the city large-livestock requirements apply, enclosure acreage is one acre for the first animal plus half an acre for each additional animal, with the prescribed equivalent multiple-enclosure arrangement. The section states an agricultural-zoning exception; state agricultural protections also matter. Its suitable-pen provision uses 50 feet from any inhabited dwelling. Newly annexed acreage has a twelve-month delay, and a historical registration exemption is limited to the registered animals/location. Residential miniature-livestock enclosures require at least one acre, every part 50 feet from an inhabited dwelling, with no more than five additional animals per enclosure acre.

• Cultivated acreage and agricultural operations: Where Agriculture Code 143.001 applies, cleared cultivated land requires a sufficient fence at least five feet high that prevents hogs passing, subject to the local-option stock-law exception. More than three lineal miles of fencing in the same general direction around cultivated land requires an unlocked gate at least ten feet wide. Actual stock-law area/species and land use control these special rules. Qualifying agricultural operations and improvements, including qualifying fences, have additional state protections against municipal requirements. Covered activities can include working livestock-protection dogs on controlled property and activities under a written wildlife-management plan. Within city limits, the statutory imminent-danger, clear-and-convincing evidence, less-restrictive-means and public-health findings can matter. Agricultural zoning, acreage or tax treatment alone does not establish the protection.

For livestock beside a covered U.S. or state highway, the owner/person in control cannot knowingly allow the specified livestock to roam unattended on its right-of-way. That statutory highway definition excludes numbered farm-to-market roads; the city and other applicable livestock controls remain separate.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

Review HOA/architectural rules, deeds, subdivision covenants, recorded private easements and boundary or maintenance agreements before ordering materials. Article 4.11 recognizes more restrictive subdivision/deed/covenant provisions, while Texas law limits certain association restrictions. Public permits, public easements and private approval are separate.

• Boundary-fence maintenance: Fence owners maintain both sides of a boundary fence, subject to a prior written agreement between the property owners. When a fence is set off the common line, the owner of the land containing it maintains the space to the lot line. Ownership and any cost-sharing agreement should be resolved separately from the permit.

• HOA security-fence protection: Property Code 202.023 protects security measures including perimeter fencing, subject to its exceptions. An HOA may regulate fence type, prohibit obstruction of a licensed area, public/community sidewalk or drainage area/easement, and—if the covenant provides—prohibit fencing ahead of the dwelling’s front-most building line. It may require a driveway gate at least ten feet from right-of-way where the driveway intersects a defined laned roadway. This is permitted HOA authority, not a universal city gate setback. The section excludes the specified condominiums and Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations.

The current statute protects maintenance of perimeter/front-building-line fencing installed before September 1, 2025. It also limits the front-building-line prohibition where the owner’s address is legally confidential or the owner supplies law-enforcement documentation of the need for enhanced security. These protections do not cancel public fence requirements.

• HOA water-feature enclosure protection: Property Code 202.022 protects its defined nonclimbable transparent-mesh or clear-panel enclosure with a metal frame and height no more than six feet. An association can regulate appearance/color within the statute’s limits but cannot prohibit the specified black transparent mesh/metal-frame enclosure. The six-foot figure defines the protected enclosure; applicable public pool requirements remain separate.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

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

• Permit and engineering review: Required plot/plans, masonry or opaque-fence engineering, automated gates, retaining walls and completion inspection.

• Location, height and visibility: Yard classification, the published front-height discrepancy, side/rear heights, corner sight triangles, hydrant/meter access, public property and easements.

• Historic and special-property review: COAs, district/landmark materials and placement, adopted planned-development conditions and required subdivision screening walls.

• Drainage, floodplain and sitework: Drainage-easement approval, flow obstruction, mapped flood hazards, protected-tree removal and irrigation conflicts.

• Pool and utility work: The applicable pool-project requirements, the stated adoption uncertainty, utility locates, pipeline/easement conditions and electrical work.

• Animal enclosures and agricultural acreage: Containment, pen location, lawful agricultural materials and applicable state protections.

• Maintenance and nuisance enforcement: Unsafe or noncompliant fences can require repair, replacement or removal. Dangerous fencing is subject to noticed city abatement under the applicable procedures. Private association or ownership disputes follow their separate rules.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within the City of Paris, 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 City of Paris Building Safety 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.