FENCE RULES – CROWLEY (CITY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page covers single-family residential fence work within the corporate limits of Crowley (City), Texas. A Crowley mailing address alone does not establish that property is within the City.

Crowley regulates new fences, material changes and substantial replacement through permits and detailed zoning standards. Privacy fences generally have an eight-foot limit, while AG and R-1 districts have a separate six-foot branch and front yards have additional restrictions. Corner setbacks, driveway and intersection visibility, and fences adjoining parkland, open space or a designated floodplain can change the design. Wood requires specified construction; chain-link has limited existing-fence exceptions, and vinyl is expressly prohibited for subdivision perimeter fencing. Existing fences also carry maintenance duties. Pool barriers, recorded easements and private restrictions require separate attention. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Crowley answer
Permit or approval	Permits cover new fences, material changes and substantial replacement. The general rule says over 50%; the residential privacy-fence rule includes 50% or more. Other site approvals can apply.
Typical fence height	Privacy branch: 8 ft. AG/R-1: 6 ft. Other front-yard branch: 4 ft. Special Downtown, perimeter and boundary conditions apply.
Placement & property lines	Privacy fences may follow property lines, subject to corner/reverse-corner setbacks, sight triangles, rights-of-way, recorded easements and drainage/floodplain conditions.
Common fence materials	Wood: recognized with construction/context limits. Vinyl/PVC: vinyl prohibited for perimeter fencing; not separately named in ordinary approved lists. Chain-link: restricted, with existing privacy-fence repair/replacement exception.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by AG/R-1 or Downtown zoning, development-specific PD/MU rules, corners and sight areas, inherited perimeter walls, designated floodplain/park/open-space boundaries, pools, easements and private restrictions.
Official local resource	Crowley Code of Ordinances

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 the Crowley Building Department, the Administrator or the responsible office identified for the issue.

GOVERNANCE

Crowley is a home-rule municipality with a Council-Manager government. The City Council adopts ordinances. Chapter 106 of the Crowley Code of Ordinances contains zoning and fence standards, particularly section 106.93. The Administrator and Building Department have specified review responsibilities. The building official is the floodplain administrator under Chapter 94. Chapter 98 and recorded plats establish separate easement and subdivision conditions, while section 34-63 governs fence maintenance.

Ordinance 05-2023-486 adopted the 2021 International Residential Code and International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, with local amendments, with a stated June 1, 2023 effective date after passage and publication. Pool-barrier rules are separate from ordinary yard-fence standards. The adoption ordinance names the pool amendment attachment Exhibit H; the City posts its pool amendments under Exhibit I. Confirm the amendment sheet applicable to a pool permit with the Building Department.

Development-specific Planned Development (PD) and Mixed-Use (MU) fence standards can control a particular property. Downtown has a separate residential building-design branch. Public easements, public roads, floodplain review, utilities and private agreements have their own functions; municipal fence approval does not settle ownership or private rights.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• New fences and material changes: Section 106.93.B requires a permit for all new fences, repair or replacement of over 50 percent of an existing fence, and a change in existing fence materials.

• Privacy-fence replacement at exactly 50 percent: Section 106.93.D separately covers new residential privacy fences and replacement of 50 percent or more on single-family residentially zoned lots, requiring a permit. The general provision says “over 50 percent,” while the privacy-fence provision expressly includes 50 percent. Confirm the applicable replacement scope with the Administrator before starting.

• Current fees: Confirm applicable permit fees against the City’s current fee schedule when applying.

• Residential screening plans: The general screening-plan requirement in section 106.93.B(3) addresses uses other than single-family or duplex dwellings. Developer screening and infrastructure-plan submissions have their own scope.

• Development and expansion: Additional construction or site development can invoke landscaping, screening/fencing and other development standards under Table 106.91-1. Apply the requirements to the actual project and affected area with the Administrator. Ordinary fence work, inherited perimeter fences and recorded plat conditions retain their specific requirements described below.

• Special zoning conditions: Supplemental-use screening requirements and parcel-specific PD/MU ordinances or approval conditions control when they conflict with section 106.93’s general requirements. Residential fencing standards expressly cover new and replacement fences, subject to the section’s PD/MU and Downtown exceptions.

• Floodplain work: Development subject to Chapter 94 requires a development permit administered by the building official. Application can include duplicate scaled plans showing location, dimensions and elevations of proposed landscape alterations and existing/proposed structures, plus the extent of watercourse or natural-drainage alteration. Applicable mapped flood-hazard and floodway conditions are described below.

• Pool-related fencing: A fence serving as a pool barrier must satisfy the applicable pool-code design and approval requirements as well as its applicable zoning conditions. Cover, wall, onground-pool and natural-barrier alternatives have specific conditions detailed below.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Property-line placement: Section 106.93.D allows privacy fences along the property line, subject to corner-lot setbacks and visibility restrictions. Establish the legal boundary and review the actual plat, survey and recorded instruments. Existing fences, curbs, pavement, mowing lines and map approximations are not interchangeable with the legal boundary or right-of-way.

• Corner and reverse-corner lots: A fence more than two feet high must be at least five feet from the side property line of a corner lot. On a reverse-corner lot the corresponding setback is 7.5 feet. Sight/visibility triangles must also remain clear.

• Driveway and street sight areas: For lots or parcels requiring a front setback, section 106.86.C(4) restricts obstructions in the prescribed driveway or street triangle between 2½ and eight feet above grade. Figure 106.86-1 provides 15-foot by 15-foot driveway triangles and 25-foot by 25-foot street-intersection triangles, with the illustrated driveway, curb/edge-of-pavement and property/right-of-way references. Intersections involving TxDOT roads use the separate TxDOT sight-visibility standards. These are location-specific visibility areas.

• Recorded plat easements: Section 98-56’s prescribed dedication prohibits fences and other listed improvements on, over or across the dedicated easement strips shown on the plat. The City and public utilities retain specified removal and access rights. Review the dedication actually recorded for the property.

• Inherited subdivision perimeter fences: The perimeter-fence branch requires fencing on private property outside public right-of-way. Utility easements must remain outside the fence location unless the utility company or franchise allows otherwise. Approved preliminary-plat material, color and design conditions continue unless otherwise approved by the Administrator.

• Adjacent floodplain, parkland or open space: The special privacy-fence branch applies where a rear or side yard shares a property line with designated floodplain, parkland or open space. Its transparent metal-fence requirements are stated under Materials and Construction Limits; the condition can apply along the shared boundary even where the fence itself is outside a flood-hazard area.

• Stormwater exemption and flowing water: Section 74-55 exempts fence construction from that section’s construction-stormwater requirements, but excludes a retaining wall or fence that may significantly obstruct or change water-flow direction. Chapter 94 floodplain requirements and other drainage duties remain separate. Walls, footings and grading must also respect Texas Water Code section 11.086’s prohibition on damaging another property by overflow from diverted or impounded natural surface water, within its statutory scope.

• Special flood-hazard areas: Chapter 94 applies to special-flood-hazard areas; development includes manmade changes such as structures, filling, grading and excavation. Applicable development requires floodplain review. The floodplain administrator interprets mapped boundaries and reviews the actual proposed work.

• Regulatory floodways: Section 94-80 prohibits encroachments, including other development, unless hydrologic and hydraulic analysis demonstrates no increase in flood levels during the base flood. The section also provides a separate route involving a FEMA conditional flood-map/floodway revision. Assess the project’s location and effects with the floodplain administrator.

• Joint or attached fences: Agriculture Code sections 143.121–143.123 restrict removal of a separating/dividing fence in which a person is a joint owner, or a fence attached to another person’s owned or controlled fence, except by mutual consent or the statutory process. A person with an interest in an attached fence may withdraw it after six months’ written notice to the specified other owner, agent, attorney or lessee. An owner whose fence is wholly on their land may require an attached fence’s disconnection after six months’ written notice to its owner, agent, attorney or lessee. Ownership, attachment and consent determine which branch applies.

• Agricultural residences and acreage: AG/R-1 fence rules remain subject to applicable agricultural-operation protections. Under Agriculture Code sections 251.005–251.0055, City requirements apply to qualifying operations within corporate limits only if the statutory conditions are met: clear-and-convincing evidence of a listed imminent danger to nearby persons, inability to address the purpose through less restrictive means, and a Council public-health resolution based on the required health-officer/consultant report, subject to statutory prohibitions. Section 251.006 protects agricultural-land owners, lessees and occupants against liability to the state, a governmental unit or owners, lessees or occupants of other agricultural land for constructing or maintaining eligible improvements when not expressly prohibited by a statute or compliant governmental requirement in effect when constructed. Eligible improvements include fences, pens, barns and arenas designed for animal/aquatic shelter, restriction or feeding, produce/feed storage, or agricultural management implements/equipment. Such improvements are not nuisances or otherwise subject to suit or injunction under that protection; state/federal statute enforcement remains. Agricultural land includes qualifying agricultural-appraisal land and other land where operations exist or may occur. An aggrieved operation owner/operator/lessee may seek section 251.009 declaratory/injunctive relief against prohibited political-subdivision enforcement, with its prevailing-party cost/fee provisions. AG zoning, acreage or hobby activity alone creates no blanket exemption.

• Pipeline easements: Health and Safety Code sections 756.121–756.123 cover construction, repair, replacement or maintenance physically on, across, over or under a covered pipeline easement/right-of-way, or physically affecting/creating risk to the facility, subject to a contrary written owner/operator agreement and statutory exceptions. For covered easement work, give operator notice and satisfy a statutory route: the operator determines no increased public or pipeline-damage risk; or, if it determines increased risk, the constructor pays the reasonable, necessary and documented protective-work costs before proceeding. Those costs cover required fortifications, barriers, conduits or other protective changes. Other routes cover work under an existing written agreement or work a regulated utility must perform promptly because of a natural disaster. Exceptions include qualifying municipal-owned-property work, excluding private commercial use, and specified navigation-district/port-authority property. An 811 ticket does not replace this construction process or easement rights.

• Texas811 before post digging: Request a locate through Texas811’s digging guidance before digging fence posts. Follow the lawful start period, check ticket responses and site markings, resolve missing or conflicting information through the ticket process, protect marks and excavate carefully. Utilities Code Chapter 251 covers specified mechanized/explosive excavation disturbing soil to 16 inches or more, including augers; separate Railroad Commission pipeline rules cover movement of earth, including manual post-hole work, deeper than sixteen inches near covered pipelines, subject to their own exceptions. Ordinary statutory notice is not earlier than the 14th day before excavation or later than 48 hours before it, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. The special Saturday branch applies only to notice before 11:59 a.m. Saturday and permits the following Tuesday 11:59 a.m. start, or Wednesday 11:59 a.m. if Monday is a holiday. Utilities Code section 251.156 has qualified notice exceptions for private-property agricultural operations and excavation by or for a person who owns, leases or holds a mineral leasehold in the property and operates all underground facilities at the site. The agricultural exception uses its statutory Tax Code activity definition; neither exception is a general own-land exemption. An exception under that chapter does not by itself exempt work from the separate pipeline rules. For covered pipeline work, the default locate-ticket life is fourteen working days, generally counted from original notice. A longer life requires the excavator’s and operator’s written agreement, signed and dated by both; retain copies. Refresh unfinished work for the area still to be excavated when the ticket expires. Required locate-ticket and positive-response records must generally be kept at least four years. Private services and some water/sewer facilities may not be marked. Notice does not replace permits, property permission or easement review.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

• AG and R-1 districts: Section 106.93.D(2)(a) limits all fencing in these districts to six feet, measured from the highest adjacent grade within ten feet of the fence. Its material and electric-fence conditions appear below.

• Residential privacy fences: The single-family residential privacy-fence branch limits height to eight feet, measured from the highest adjacent grade within ten feet. Separate AG/R-1, front-yard, PD/MU, Downtown and adjacent-land conditions must be applied where relevant.

• Front yards: In AG/R-1, section 106.93.D(2)(a)’s branch governs. In other zoning districts covered by D’s front-yard provision, the maximum is four feet, with limited open-picket, vegetative or ornamental-metal materials.

• Privacy fences adjoining designated land: Where the rear/side boundary adjoins designated floodplain, parkland or open space, the stated maximum is eight feet measured from highest adjacent grade within ten feet, with the separate 75-percent-transparent metal construction requirement. Where multiple district and boundary conditions apply, confirm their application with the Administrator.

• Subdivision perimeter fences: This branch uses a six-foot minimum and eight-foot maximum, measured from highest adjacent grade within ten feet. Administrator-approved variation may reach ten feet for no more than ten percent of total linear length. This applies to the defined perimeter fencing, including applicable replacement of an inherited perimeter wall.

• Downtown residential building-design condition: Section 106.57.D(2) requires a front-property-line fence no higher than three feet where a residential-use building is set back at least ten feet and its slab/first floor is not elevated at least twelve inches above sidewalk grade. This is the Downtown single-family/duplex building-design condition.

• Visibility band and trees: Within the prescribed sight triangles on lots requiring a front setback, the obstruction restriction covers 2½ to eight feet above grade. The stated tree exception concerns trees in the street planter strip whose limbs are pruned at least six feet above adjacent street grade. Corner setbacks and the driveway/street triangle geometry in Placement apply independently of ordinary fence-height limits.

• Pool barriers: Pool-barrier minimums and gate hardware are safety requirements for that use of a fence. They are detailed below and operate alongside the applicable zoning branch.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• Privacy-fence materials: Section 106.93.D(2)(c) recognizes masonry—brick, stone or reinforced cement concrete—or other sustainable material with more than a 30-year life expectancy; ornamental metal rail; cedar/redwood with metal posts; composite with metal posts; and other wooden pickets only with metal posts, metal brackets and metal caps.

• Wood: Wood is recognized under the specified privacy-fence construction requirements and as open pickets in the applicable front-yard branch. Wood is prohibited in the subdivision perimeter and designated floodplain/park/open-space boundary branches. AG/R-1’s separate list recognizes post-and-rail construction.

• Vinyl/PVC: Vinyl is expressly prohibited for subdivision perimeter fencing. The ordinary privacy-fence approved list names composite and qualifying sustainable materials but does not separately name vinyl/PVC. The front-yard and AG/R-1 material lists likewise do not specifically name vinyl/PVC. Obtain approval of the proposed material under the applicable branch.

• Chain-link: Ordinary residential privacy fencing prohibits chain-link except when replacing or repairing an existing chain-link fence. AG/R-1, subdivision perimeter fencing and the designated floodplain/park/open-space boundary branch separately prohibit it.

• Other prohibited privacy materials: Sheet, roll or corrugated metal and castoff, secondhand or other items not originally intended for fence construction or maintenance are prohibited under the privacy-fence branch.

• AG and R-1 construction: Approved types are post-and-rail, pipe-and-cable, pipe rail and woven wire. Chain-link and barbed wire are prohibited. Electric fencing may be located only interior to a fence of approved materials. Applicable agricultural-operation protections depend on their separate statutory conditions.

• Front-yard construction: Outside the AG/R-1 branch, the applicable front-yard provision limits materials to open wooden pickets, vegetative fencing or ornamental metal.

• Designated floodplain, parkland or open-space boundary: Use ornamental metal rail with brick/stone columns or ornamental metal posts providing at least 75 percent transparency. Vines or shrubs may be planted on the homeowner’s property for privacy. Wood, chain-link, sheet/roll/corrugated metal and castoff/secondhand/nonfence items are prohibited.

• Street-facing orientation: Any fence or screen on a lot adjacent to a public street must orient the exposed-post/rail side away from street view.

• Inherited subdivision perimeter construction: The perimeter branch calls for 100 percent masonry: brick, stone or concrete masonry unit, with more-than-30-year life expectancy. Ornamental metal with at least 75 percent transparency may serve portions abutting internal park/open space or emphasizing entrance landscaping. Vinyl, wood and chain-link are prohibited. Existing plat-design conditions and the owner’s ongoing maintenance responsibility apply unless assigned to an HOA or other entity.

• Perimeter-wall design relief: Adjacent to major thoroughfares, the fence should curve or angle at corners for visibility and variety. Wall sections longer than 100 feet should incorporate either a minimum one-foot horizontal-plane and/or height change for at least ten feet after at least every twenty feet; columns at least twelve inches wide projecting six inches at thirty-five-foot intervals; or another Administrator-approved feature providing adequate relief.

• Existing-fence maintenance: Section 34-63 requires reasonably plumb, structurally sound fencing. External bracing cannot replace repair of posts, columns or other structural members. Following city notice, replace broken, damaged or missing parts within seven days, using the same material or comparable composition, color, size, shape and quality. The City may extend the period after written notice of unusual circumstances.

• Repair materials and painted surfaces: Do not use materials not manufactured as fencing, including plywood, corrugated steel panels or fiberglass panels. Maintain painted surfaces against rust, peeling and blistering. Graffiti, writings or symbols are prohibited except signs permitted under the sign rules.

• Removal instead of repair: Within the seven-day period, a fence may be completely removed instead of repaired only when it is not required by a specific Council order, Chapter 106 or pool/spa enclosure requirements. Joint or attached fences remain subject to the separate statutory removal conditions described above.

Private-home pool barriers. The 2021 pool code and the City’s posted pool-code amendments provide the following separate safety framework. These provisions concern a fence or other protection serving a pool/spa; applicable yard-fence zoning restrictions remain relevant.

• Residential safety-cover alternative: For one-/two-family dwellings and townhouses, a spa/hot tub with a lockable safety cover complying with ASTM F1346, or a pool with a powered ASTM F1346 safety cover, may use the section 305.1 alternative to sections 305.2–305.7. Construction fencing under 305.1.1 is separate.

• Pool construction fencing: Surround an in-ground pool/spa construction site from excavation until the permanent barrier is completed with fencing at least four feet high.

• Barrier height, gaps and solid surfaces: The top must be at least 48 inches above grade on the outside, around the entire perimeter and for three feet horizontally outside. Bottom clearance is at most two inches over nonsolid grade such as grass/gravel, or four inches over a solid surface. A pool-mounted barrier has at most four inches between pool top and barrier bottom. Openings cannot pass a four-inch sphere. Solid surfaces cannot provide climbable handholds/footholds except normal tolerances and tooled masonry joints.

• Mesh pool barriers: Install to manufacturer instructions. Mesh bottom is at most one inch above the surface/grade; lifting and under-panel clearance must satisfy the four-inch limits and prevent a four-inch sphere passing beneath. Attach sections at least forty-five inches above grade with secure devices; hinged gates meet the gate provisions. Patio sleeves are nonconductive. Mesh barriers cannot be installed on top of onground residential pools. Keep the inside of the mesh fence at least twenty inches from the nearest water edge.

• Horizontal, vertical and diagonal pool-barrier members: If tops of horizontal members are less than forty-five inches apart, horizontal members face the pool and vertical spacing and decorative cutouts are at most 1¾ inches. With horizontal tops forty-five inches or more apart, vertical spacing is at most four inches and decorative cutouts at most 1¾ inches. Diagonal-member openings are at most 1¾ inches and diagonals at most forty-five degrees from vertical.

• Chain-link as a pool barrier: The base barrier geometry limits openings to 1¾ inches; slats used to reduce openings must be secured at top and bottom. Crowley’s added public-pool prohibition applies to public pools built after January 1, 1994. Residential zoning still controls whether chain-link is an eligible material for the property.

• Pool-side clear zone: Pool equipment or other equipment on the same lot outside the barrier must be at least thirty-six inches from its outside.

• Pool-barrier gates: Pedestrian doors/gates open outward away from the pool, self-close and self-latch, and accommodate a locking device. Utility/service gates remain locked when unused. Double/multiple gates have at least one secured leaf and an adjacent self-latching leaf.

• Residential pool-gate release: An outside-accessed, non-self-locking release is at least 54 inches above finished floor/ground. For a self-locking key/electronic/combination type, the residential lock control/release is no higher than 54 inches. At private pools, an inside-only release is at least three inches below the gate top; openings within eighteen inches of an inside release are at most one-half inch.

• Dwelling/townhouse wall as pool barrier: Where the dwelling/townhouse or accessory-structure wall provides pool access, the amended provision retains the six base-code branches. These include UL2017 water-hazard entrance alarms for access doors/gates and operable windows with sills below forty-eight inches; alarm-switch location requirements; an ASTM F1346 listed/labeled safety cover; or approved protection, such as self-closing/self-latching doors, providing the required equivalent protection. Ordinary dwelling alarm-deactivation controls are at least fifty-four inches above the finished floor. Required Accessible/Type A/Type B dwelling controls are forty-eight to fifty-four inches; the unchanged other-structure control branch also states forty-eight to fifty-four inches. Apply the actual wall/use and approved protection arrangement with the Building Department.

• Onground residential pool walls: The wall alone can serve as the barrier when its bottom is on grade, its top is at least forty-eight inches around the perimeter, it meets section 305.2 and the manufacturer permits that use. A barrier on top must bring the total height to at least forty-eight inches and satisfy section 305.2. Secure, lock or remove access ladders/steps unless separately enclosed by a compliant barrier; resulting openings cannot pass a four-inch sphere. Install pool-top barriers to manufacturer instructions.

• Natural water and topography alternatives: For the amended dwelling/townhouse natural-water branch, no shoreline barrier is required between the pool/spa and adjacent lake/natural water only where shoreline public access is not permitted and the required barriers extend at least eighteen inches beyond the water’s edge. Separately, governing-body-approved natural topography must prevent direct access and provide protection at least equivalent to sections 305.2–305.5.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

HOA/deed/architectural covenants, private easements and boundary, maintenance or cost agreements operate separately from public approvals, within applicable Texas statutory limits. Public approval does not determine ownership, require automatic equal cost sharing or discharge private obligations.

• HOA security-fence protections and limits: Property Code section 202.023 protects security measures including perimeter fencing subject to its retained controls. It excludes condominiums under Chapters 81/82 and Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations. An association may regulate fence type and prohibit obstruction of license areas, public/community sidewalks and drainage easements/areas. Where a driveway intersects the defined laned roadway, an association may require a gate at least ten feet from ROW. A restrictive covenant may prohibit fencing ahead of the dwelling’s front-most building line. This is HOA authority within the statute’s scope.

• Existing and enhanced-security fencing: Section 202.023 protects maintenance of perimeter/front-building-line fencing installed or constructed before September 1, 2025, notwithstanding subsection (c). Its exception to the front-building-line prohibition covers protected residential-address confidentiality or law-enforcement documentation of enhanced-security need. These provisions do not establish an automatic right to expand or replace every existing fence.

• Defined pool enclosures: Section 202.022 protects conforming nonclimbable water-feature enclosures made of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames, no more than six feet high, that meet applicable state/local safety requirements. Appearance/color regulation remains, but the specified black transparent-mesh/metal-frame form cannot be prohibited. Six feet is the definition limit for that HOA protection, not a universal pool-barrier minimum or yard-fence maximum.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

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

• Fence permits and zoning: New work, replacement scope, material changes, district and front-yard branches, corner setbacks, visibility and public-street orientation.

• Perimeter and designated-boundary fencing: Inherited plat/design conditions, continuing wall maintenance, and the special transparent-fence requirements next to designated floodplain, parkland or open space.

• Maintenance and removal: Structural condition, repair notices, replacement materials and whether a fence is required to remain, alongside separate joint/attached-fence duties.

• Floodplain, drainage and easements: Actual project development effects, floodway conditions, water-flow obstruction, recorded easement access and right-of-way boundaries.

• Pool and utility safety: Applicable pool-barrier alternatives, construction protection, gate/wall arrangements, utility locates and separate pipeline-easement construction conditions.

• Private review: Association approvals and private ownership/cost disputes are distinct from City review and remain subject to applicable Texas limitations.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within Crowley (City), 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 the Crowley Building Department 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.