FENCE RULES – BOERNE (CITY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page covers residential fencing within the corporate limits of the City of Boerne, Texas, in Kendall County. A Boerne mailing address outside those limits does not establish that these municipal fence standards apply.

Boerne requires a building permit for fence erection and a site plan showing the proposed location. The ordinary residential framework is a four-foot front-yard maximum, with visibility protected above three feet, and six feet in side and rear yards, subject to specified exceptions. Wood privacy fencing is recognized, while other materials and locations require closer attention to the City’s prescribed list and overlay rules. Historic properties present a published conflict over wooden fence designs. Pools, corner visibility, easements and watershed approvals can independently change a project. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Boerne answer
Permit or approval	A building permit is required for fence erection. Submit a permit application and site plan showing the fence location; historic, floodplain and other applicable reviews remain separate.
Typical fence height	Front yard: four feet maximum, with no vision obstruction above three feet. Side and rear yards: six feet, with specified exceptions. Local pool enclosures have a separate six-foot minimum.
Placement & property lines	Establish the legal boundary and applicable easements. Corner-lot visibility triangles, easement-access gates, overlay setbacks, watershed conditions and public rights-of-way affect placement.
Common fence materials	Wood: privacy fencing is listed in the general residential rule, with overlay restrictions and a historic-design conflict. Vinyl/PVC: not named in that list; alternate equivalent screening requires City approval. Chain-link: not named in the general residential list and expressly prohibited in the Historic District.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by nonconforming replacement costs, corner lots, Historic District and corridor overlays, pools, public or recorded easements, floodplain and watershed protection, fire-access gates, and qualifying agricultural operations.
Official local resource	Boerne Permitting and Code Compliance

The table 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 Permitting and Code Compliance, Planning, or the responsible office identified for the issue.

GOVERNANCE

Boerne is an incorporated home-rule city. The City Council adopts municipal ordinances. The Code of Ordinances and Unified Development Code establish the local fence framework, including building permits, residential site standards, overlays, subdivisions, floodplain and watershed protection.

Permitting and Code Compliance administers construction permits, contractor registration and inspections within the city limits. Planning handles zoning and historic/design questions. The Floodplain Administrator and engineering staff administer their respective floodplain, drainage and easement functions. Gates across fire apparatus access roads also involve the Fire Code Official. Use the City’s development codes and official code links for the applicable provisions.

The residential site standards apply to private property zoned for residential use within corporate limits. Overlay standards control over conflicting base zoning or other Unified Development Code standards; where more than one overlay applies, the more conservative standard controls. Property-specific approvals, plats and easements can add conditions.

The City adopts the 2021 International Residential Code and publishes the 2021 building and fire codes and 2023 National Electrical Code among its current codes. Texas law also supplies municipal residential and swimming-pool code frameworks. Ordinary private-home pools must be distinguished from association, multiunit and public pools, which can fall under different statutes and operating rules.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• Fence erection: Code of Ordinances Section 5-1 requires a building permit for the erection of any fence within the city limits. The City’s fence FAQ requires a permit application and a site plan indicating where the fence will be placed. Fees follow the current City fee schedule.

• Application route and contractors: Applications use My Government Online. Contractors must be registered to perform work within city limits and submit required applications.

• Existing nonconforming fences: Unified Development Code Section 3-3 expressly includes fences among nonconforming site components. A component that complied when installed but falls short of later design standards can qualify. Remodeling or replacement costing less than 50 percent of the component’s value is permitted if it maintains the existing materials and design. Work costing greater than 50 percent requires conformity with current standards. These clauses leave the exactly-50-percent case unstated. They concern design conformity; Section 5-1’s erection permit remains a separate requirement.

• Historic properties: Exterior site features and appurtenance changes can require historic review even when a building permit is not otherwise required. The historic guidelines distinguish minor maintenance from alteration and replacement. Fence submissions call for scaled drawings and a lot plat or survey showing location, height, style, materials, member thickness or spacing and appearance, together with property photographs. Use current Planning guidance for the required review and for the conflicting wooden-fence standards discussed below.

• Design overlays and alternatives: Required overlay, design or alternative-material approval remains applicable to the property and proposal. Planning is the current point of entry for these questions, including any necessary historic, alternative-design, variance or appeal process.

• Floodplain work: A floodplain development permit applies to proposed construction and other development within the regulated special flood hazard area or local floodplain. The City’s floodplain development checklist expressly requires proposed fence plans to show that the fence will not obstruct water flow. Applicable reviews can require engineering calculations and a no-rise/no-impact certification.

• Open fences in the floodplain: Section 8-1 allows the Floodplain Administrator to waive the no-rise/no-impact certification for open-style fences and other specified minor improvements determined insignificant to the floodplain. The waiver is discretionary and concerns the certification requirement.

• Right-of-way and fire access: Work installing, reconstructing or altering facilities in, on or over public rights-of-way has a separate City right-of-way permit process. A gate crossing a fire apparatus access road requires approved gate plans and a gate construction permit before construction. Public access and easement rights remain applicable.

• Pool projects: The City requires a permit and location site plan for below-ground pools. Its FAQ exempts prefabricated above-ground pools less than 24 inches deep from the pool permit and requires permits for the others. Pool permit treatment and the separate enclosure requirements must both be addressed.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Boundaries and recorded conditions: Establish the legal property boundary and examine the survey, plat and easement documents before locating posts. The City’s FAQ identifies the survey plat as a source for setbacks and easements. An existing fence, curb, pavement edge or tax-map line is not a conclusive property or right-of-way boundary.

• Corner lots: On a corner lot with a required front yard, no fence, wall, other structure, hedge, shrub, tree or other growth may occupy the triangular area formed by the intersecting street lines and a line joining points 25 feet along each street line from their intersection.

• Easement crossings: Section 6-4 requires fences crossing an easement to have double-swing gates providing at least 12 feet of open width for ready access. For residential subdivision perimeter structures along a street right-of-way within public utility, drainage or storm-drain easements, Section 6-6 separately requires that they not impede utility or drainage operation, installation, maintenance, repair or replacement. Those structures also require the 12-foot double-gate access, subject to the Director of Engineering and Mobility’s determination.

• SoBo Overlay District alleys: Fences along alleys have a minimum five-foot setback. Where above-ground franchise utility equipment exists, the minimum is eight feet. These are SoBo overlay rules.

• Historic privacy fencing: The Historic Design Guidelines place wooden privacy fencing in rear yards and start side privacy fencing at least halfway back along the house. Solid-board front fencing is discouraged. The conflicting Unified Development Code wooden-fence restriction requires Planning review before relying on a guideline design.

• Drainageway protection zones: Zone 1 is measured from the drainageway centerline; Zone 2 extends outward from Zone 1. For contributing drainage areas of at least 25 but less than 128 acres, the widths on each side are 35 feet for Zone 1 and 20 feet for Zone 2, totaling 55 feet. At least 128 but less than 320 acres uses 55 and 30 feet, totaling 85 feet. At least 320 but less than 640 acres uses 70 and 50 feet, totaling 120 feet. At least 640 acres uses 100 and 50 feet, totaling 150 feet.

• Water-supply protection zones: A minimum 200-foot zone surrounds the normal-pool shoreline of lakes used or intended for use as City surface-water reservoirs. Drainageway and water-supply zones ordinarily remain free of construction and alteration. The current fence exception in both drainageway zones and the water-supply zone requires a fence that does not obstruct water flow and approval by the City Engineer.

• Floodplain and drainage: Local floodplain regulation includes qualifying one-percent-annual-chance inundation from watersheds of at least 25 acres without a regulatory floodplain, with a minimum one-foot flow depth. Location and work must be evaluated under the applicable City determination. Existing drainageways cannot be deepened, widened, filled, reclaimed, rerouted or relocated without applicable floodplain development and grading permits. Do not obstruct drainage or divert or impound natural surface water so that overflow damages another property.

• Disturbance in drainageway zones: Disturbed areas in Zones 1 and 2 require revegetation to 85 percent coverage with a City Engineer-approved native seed mix. Altered channels should be restored to preconstruction conditions and banks stabilized. Protected-tree preservation and mitigation requirements can also apply to work in these zones.

• City electric service: For new connections and reconnections to Boerne’s electric system, meters must remain accessible to utility personnel and cannot be located behind fences or walls. Account for actual meter access and service conditions when choosing a fence line.

• Pipeline easements: For covered construction on or affecting a pipeline easement, Health and Safety Code Sections 756.121–756.126 require notice to the operator. The operator must determine that the work will not increase risk to the public or pipeline; if it determines that risk will increase, arrange the necessary protective changes and pay their reasonable, necessary and documented costs before proceeding. Existing written agreements and applicable statutory exceptions can change these requirements. An excavation ticket does not settle pipeline-easement construction rights or establish a universal fence setback.

• Shared and attached fence removal: Agriculture Code Sections 143.121–143.123 restrict removal of a jointly owned dividing fence or a fence attached to one owned or controlled by another, subject to mutual consent or the statutory process. A person owning an interest in an attached fence may physically withdraw it from the other fence after six months’ written notice to the other fence’s owner, agent, attorney or lessee. An owner whose fence is wholly on that owner’s land may require an attached fence to be disconnected after the corresponding six-month written notice. Ownership and attachment determine these duties.

• Pipeline excavation: Railroad Commission rules separately cover specified pipeline hazards and can reach deep manual digging; movement not exceeding 16 inches is excluded under that rule. Its default ticket life is 14 working days, with a longer written, signed and dated agreement available under the rule. Refresh expiring unfinished work for the remaining area, follow pipeline response and second-notice requirements, and retain required ticket and response records for at least four years. An unanswered initial request is not automatic clearance.

• Texas811 before post digging: Request a locate before digging, wait the applicable period, follow ticket/start instructions, check responses and site markings, resolve missing or conflicting information, protect markings and excavate carefully. The Utilities Code covers specified mechanized or explosive excavation, including augering to 16 inches or deeper. Its ordinary notice window is no earlier than the 14th day and no later than 48 hours before excavation, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. For notice given before 11:59 a.m. Saturday, the start branch is Tuesday at 11:59 a.m., or Wednesday at 11:59 a.m. if Monday is a legal holiday. Private facilities and some services fall outside mandatory marking coverage. Permits, property permission and easement rights remain separate. Use the current Texas811 guidance and response process.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

• Front yards: Under Section 4-4, a fence or wall other than the wall of a permitted structure may not exceed four feet in front-yard space. No fence or wall may obscure vision above three feet.

• Side and rear yards: The ordinary maximum is six feet. The section provides exceptions where the City requires a higher screening or security fence; the fence abuts a collector or higher-order street; the principal dwelling’s ground-floor elevation on an adjoining lot is at least four feet above the elevation at the abutting lot line; or the fence is a TxDOT-required sound wall or fence. The TxDOT branch states that additional height may be permitted by the City through a Special Use Permit.

• Corner visibility: The 25-foot street-line triangle described above remains a separate placement restriction, including for fences below the ordinary yard maximum.

• Historic front fences: The Historic Design Guidelines describe painted or stained wood pickets or balusters, with a maximum 42 inches where more than 50 percent open and 36 inches where less than 50 percent open. The passage does not classify exactly 50 percent openness. Rear wooden privacy fences are limited by the guidelines to six feet. These designs remain subject to the published conflict with the Historic District’s split-rail-only wooden-fence provision.

• Heritage Corridor stone walls: Stone walls above three feet are prohibited within ten feet of Old San Antonio Road. Walls above three feet set back at least ten feet from that road require natural landscaping screening at least 50 percent of the wall face. Stone walls above three feet within ten feet of Herff Road also require natural landscaping screening at least 50 percent of the wall face.

• Entrance Corridor frontage: Stone walls taller than 30 inches are prohibited along the entrance-corridor street frontage. Corridor restrictions supplement the general yard rules.

• Pool enclosures: Section 4-8 requires a complete fence or wall enclosure at least six feet high, with self-closing and self-latching gates. The latch must be on the pool side at least four and one-half feet above ground. Automatic electric gates may be used if closing begins within 60 seconds after a vehicle or person passes. Temporary fencing is required during excavation.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• General residential list: Section 4-4 requires permanent material and lists brick masonry, stone masonry or another architectural masonry finish; primed and painted tubular steel or wrought iron with structural supports every ten feet and sufficient evergreen landscaping for screening; rock or concrete block; wooden privacy fencing; City-approved living plant screening; and City-approved alternate equivalent screening.

• Wood, vinyl/PVC and chain-link: Wooden privacy fencing is expressly listed. Vinyl/PVC and chain-link are not specifically named in the residential list; alternate equivalent screening requires City approval. Historic and corridor provisions impose additional material restrictions.

• Prohibited residential materials: Cast-off, secondhand or other items not originally intended for fence construction or maintenance are prohibited. The prohibition also covers plywood less than five-eighths inch thick, particleboard, paper, plastic tarp or similar material, and barbed wire, razor wire or similar fencing capable of significant physical injury.

• Street-facing articulation: No fence, wall or segment fronting a street’s paved surface may exceed 100 horizontal feet without brick, stone or masonry columns or pillars as architectural features. The articulation rule does not apply to brick, stone, masonry or iron fencing consisting of at least 50 percent open voids.

• Historic wooden-fence conflict: Unified Development Code Section 3-11 says the only wooden fence allowed in the Historic District is split rail. The incorporated Historic Design Guidelines instead identify wood picket and privacy designs and list split rail as unacceptable. Both published standards affect design selection. Obtain Planning review for the specific property before choosing a wooden fence.

• Other Historic District materials: The UDC prohibits barbed wire, sheet metal and chain-link and requires landscape screening for wrought iron and other high-opacity fencing. The guidelines call for preservation of original fencing, including cast iron; new cast iron generally suits late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century buildings and is generally inappropriate for houses built after 1920. They also reject louver, concrete-block, basket-weave, horizontal-board, stockade and shadowbox designs. Freestanding brick is generally inappropriate in front yards but acceptable at rear or side yards not readily visible from the street.

• Historic pickets and privacy details: Where considered under the guidelines, pickets or spindles should be no wider than four inches, set between a top rail and lower baseboard and rail. Privacy boards should be four to six inches wide; single-row flat-top vertical boards are most appropriate, with lattice or picket topping also identified as appropriate. The height, location and conflicting UDC restriction discussed above still affect these designs.

• Historic retaining walls: The guidelines call for preservation of historic walls, including original or pre-1945 concrete walls, and discourage replacement of pre-1945 walls with new materials. New walls should use concrete or stone designs such as cut stone, random rubble, coursed rubble or cobblestone. Front-yard timber, railroad-tie and artificial-stone retaining walls are discouraged. Brick may be appropriate when consistent with the building’s historic style. Use the City’s historic review resources and design guidelines with Planning.

• Corridor wooden fencing: Heritage Corridor rules prohibit wooden privacy fencing along Old San Antonio Road, Herff Road and River Road frontage. Entrance Corridor rules prohibit wooden privacy fencing within 50 feet of the entrance-corridor street right-of-way.

• Fire apparatus access gates: A single gate across a fire apparatus access road must provide at least 20 feet of width under the local fire-code amendment. Such gates require automatic operation, motorization, a siren-activated system, a Knox Key Switch and manual operation, with Fire Code Official approval and the applicable construction permit. These are designated fire-access-road conditions.

• Pool locations and local enclosure: Pools and hot tubs, including decking and equipment, must be behind the primary structure’s predominant front building line and at least three feet from property lines. The pool water edge must be at least five feet from primary or accessory structures. Boerne’s Section 4-8 requires the local six-foot enclosure, self-closing and self-latching gates, pool-side latch at least four and one-half feet above ground, automatic closing initiated within 60 seconds, and temporary fencing during excavation, as described above.

• Pool construction-code baseline: Texas’s municipal statutory pool-construction framework uses the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code as it existed May 1, 2019. The following are the homeowner barrier provisions of that 2018 code’s Section 305, subject to Boerne’s added requirements and any applicable adopted amendments. The model’s 48-inch minimum does not reduce Boerne’s six-foot enclosure requirement. Its cover and other alternatives do not automatically waive the independent local enclosure rule. Confirm the proposed combined design with Permitting and Code Compliance. Ordinary private-home pools have different requirements from common or public pools.

• Model barrier dimensions and clearances: Section 305 requires a barrier for outdoor pools and spas and indoor swimming pools unless a qualified alternative applies. The top must be at least 48 inches above the outside grade around the full perimeter, with that height maintained for three feet horizontally outside the barrier. The outside bottom gap is at most two inches over grass, gravel or other nonsolid grade, and at most four inches over a solid surface such as concrete. For a barrier mounted on an above-grade pool or spa structure, the gap between the structure’s top and barrier bottom is at most four inches. Openings must prevent a four-inch-diameter sphere from passing. Solid barriers may not have climbing handholds or footholds apart from normal construction tolerances and tooled masonry joints. Keep at least 36 inches between the barrier’s exterior and permanent structures or equipment usable for climbing; the pool-side face must be at least 20 inches from the water’s edge.

• Model member and mesh spacing: Where horizontal-member tops are less than 45 inches apart, put those members on the pool side and limit vertical-member gaps and decorative cutouts to one and three-quarter inches. Where horizontal-member tops are at least 45 inches apart, vertical gaps may be at most four inches, while decorative cutouts remain limited to one and three-quarter inches. Chain-link openings may be at most one and three-quarter inches; slats fastened at both top and bottom may reduce openings to that limit. Diagonal members must create openings no larger than one and three-quarter inches and lie no more than 45 degrees from vertical. These model dimensions do not authorize a material prohibited or restricted by Boerne’s residential, historic or overlay rules.

• Model mesh-fence installation: Non-chain-link mesh must follow its manufacturer’s instructions. Its bottom must be within one inch of the deck, installed surface or grade. It must not lift more than four inches above grade or decking, must prevent a four-inch sphere passing below any panel, and must have no bottom clearance exceeding four inches over the solid surface. Each section needs an attachment at least 45 inches above grade with security at least equivalent to a hook-and-eye latch with a spring retaining lever. Hinged gates must meet Section 305.3. Patio post sleeves must be nonconductive. Mesh fencing cannot be mounted atop an onground residential pool.

• Model gates and latches: Gates must accommodate a lock. Pedestrian gates must swing away from the pool or spa, close themselves and latch themselves. Service gates must stay locked when unused. For double or multiple gates, secure at least one leaf and give the adjacent leaf a self-latch; openings in the gate and barrier within 18 inches of its release cannot exceed one-half inch. When a self-latch release is less than 54 inches above grade, it must be on the pool side at least three inches below the gate top, with no opening larger than one-half inch within 18 inches of the release. Boerne independently requires its latch on the pool side at least four and one-half feet above ground.

• Model safety-cover alternative: Section 305.1 relieves compliance with model Sections 305.2–305.7 where a spa or hot tub has an ASTM F1346-compliant lockable safety cover, or a swimming pool has an ASTM F1346-compliant powered safety cover. An ordinary floating or energy cover does not establish that qualification. This model relief does not itself waive Boerne’s separate six-foot enclosure rule.

• Model dwelling or structure wall: A building wall may form part of the barrier when its directly accessing doors and windows receive one of the specified protections. One option uses UL 2017-listed and labeled water-hazard entrance alarms that sound when doors, their screens, or operable windows with indoor sills below 48 inches are opened. Alarm-deactivation controls must be at least 54 inches above the finished floor in units not required to be Accessible, Type A or Type B; in those required accessible unit types, controls must be 48–54 inches above the floor. Alternatives are an ASTM F1346-listed and labeled safety cover, or an approved equally protective measure such as self-closing, self-latching doors. Local enclosure requirements still govern the complete design.

• Model onground residential pool wall: A qualifying pool wall can serve as the model barrier when its bottom rests on grade, its top is at least 48 inches above grade around the entire pool, it meets Section 305.2, and the manufacturer permits that use. A barrier mounted on the wall must bring the top to at least 48 inches around the full perimeter, meet Section 305.2 together with the wall, and follow the manufacturer’s installation instructions. Access ladders or steps must be securable, lockable or removable unless enclosed by a Section 305 barrier; any resulting opening must prevent a four-inch sphere from passing. These model arrangements remain subject to Boerne’s independent six-foot enclosure requirement.

• Model shoreline and natural-topography alternatives: Where the pool or spa area adjoins a lake or other natural waterbody, no shoreline-side model barrier is required only if public shoreline access is not permitted and the required barriers extend to and at least 18 inches beyond the water’s edge. Natural topography such as mountains or rock formations may serve as a barrier only with governing-body approval and protection at least equal to Sections 305.2–305.5. Neither alternative supplies an automatic waiver of Boerne’s local enclosure requirement.

• Homes with agricultural acreage: Agricultural zoning alone does not establish an exemption from the residential fence rules. Texas Agriculture Code protections depend on an actual qualifying operation and the applicable statutory conditions. Within corporate limits, governmental requirements affecting agricultural operations require the statute’s clear and convincing evidence of imminent danger and the inadequacy of less restrictive means, together with its report and resolution requirements. Qualifying agricultural improvements can include fences; state and federal enforcement remains applicable. For cleared land in cultivation, Agriculture Code Section 143.001 calls for a sufficient fence at least five feet high that prevents hog passage, except as the chapter provides for adopted stock-law areas. Section 143.002 requires an unlocked gate at least ten feet wide where more than three lineal miles of fence run in the same general direction around cleared cultivated land. Other sufficient-fence branches depend on actual adopted territory and animal classes. These agricultural conditions are separate from ordinary yard maximums.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

Private covenants, HOA architectural requirements, private easements and fence ownership or maintenance agreements operate alongside public requirements, subject to Texas law. A permit does not determine ownership, private cost sharing or permission to use another person’s land. Public plat conditions and public easement access remain distinct from private covenants.

• HOA security fencing: Property Code Section 202.023 limits association covenants preventing security measures, including perimeter fencing, but preserves regulation of fence type and prohibitions on fencing obstructing license areas, public or community sidewalks, and drainage easements or areas. An association may require a driveway gate at least ten feet back from the right-of-way where the driveway intersects a defined laned roadway. A restrictive covenant may prohibit fencing in front of a dwelling’s front-most building line.

• Existing fences and enhanced security: Section 202.023 protects maintenance of perimeter or front-building-line fencing installed or constructed before September 1, 2025. It also protects specified address-confidentiality and law-enforcement-documented enhanced-security cases from the front-building-line prohibition. These provisions do not state an unrestricted right to replace or expand every existing fence. The section excludes statutory condominiums and Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations.

• HOA pool enclosures: Section 202.022 protects a defined nonclimbable water-feature enclosure made of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames, no more than six feet high, that conforms to applicable safety requirements. Appearance and colors can be regulated, but the protected black transparent-mesh, metal-frame form cannot be prohibited. This protection does not displace public pool-safety requirements.

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 conformity review: Fence applications, location plans, contractor registration, nonconforming replacement and applicable historic or design review.

• Height, material and visibility review: Yard limits and exceptions, corner visibility, corridor conditions, approved materials and the conflicting historic wooden-fence standards.

• Site and access review: Rights-of-way, recorded easements, utility access, fire-access gates, floodplain certification or discretionary waivers, and City Engineer watershed approval.

• Pool and excavation review: Pool enclosure and gate requirements, digging notices, pipeline protections and applicable easement construction conditions.

Private association review, cost-sharing agreements and ownership disputes remain separate from City permit and code enforcement.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within the City of Boerne, 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 Boerne Permitting and Code Compliance 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.