FENCE RULES – MANOR (CITY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page covers residential fences within the corporate limits of the City of Manor, Texas, in Travis County.

Manor regulates fence permits, height, visibility, materials and construction through its development code and building-permit system. The usual maximum is 6 feet, with a separate 4-foot front-yard limit and intersection visibility controls. Wood is recognized, residential chain-link is prohibited, and purpose-made vinyl/PVC is not specifically addressed. The ordinary fence provisions do not specify a numeric setback from a private property line, but easements, rights-of-way, drainage and approved development conditions can restrict placement. Pools and animal enclosures have additional requirements, and agricultural properties have conditional exceptions. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Manor answer
Permit or approval	A fence permit is required for fence erection on platted property. Compliant minor improvements and ordinary repairs have qualified exceptions; other site approvals depend on the work.
Typical fence height	Generally 6 feet; single-family front-yard fences are limited to 4 feet. The Building Official may allow up to 8 feet under specified site or hazardous-facility conditions.
Placement & property lines	No numeric private-property-line setback is specified in the ordinary fence provisions. Respect boundaries, easements, rights-of-way, drainage and the 25-foot intersection visibility area.
Common fence materials	Wood: recognized, with conditions. Vinyl/PVC: not specifically addressed as purpose-made fencing. Chain-link: prohibited for residential fencing.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by intersection visibility, pools, easements, drainage and floodplain work, approved planned-development conditions, attached housing, animal enclosures and agricultural operations.
Official local resource	City of Manor Building Permit Resources

The table is for quick reference; the corresponding sections below give additional fence-rule details. 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 the Building Official or the responsible office identified for that issue.

GOVERNANCE

Manor is a home-rule city. City Council adopts municipal ordinances; the Manor Code of Ordinances distributes relevant rules among building regulation, zoning, subdivision, landscaping, floodplain, right-of-way and animal-control provisions. Section 15.03.022 applies its fence and wall standards across zoning districts and uses within the city.

The Building Official administers building/fence approval and the specified height exceptions. Development Services handles the city development-permitting process. The office of mayor is designated Floodplain Administrator under §3.07.004; the floodplain approval function is separate from ordinary fence review. Work occupying or obstructing a public right-of-way also requires the applicable city right-of-way approvals and written permission. Animal Control administers animal-restraint requirements.

Current code and transition: Manor’s codified building/residential provisions adopt the 2015 IBC and IRC with amendments. Chapter 3 prevails over conflicting adopted-model-code provisions, while §3.01.001 recognizes the precedence of conflicting specific state statutes. The city announces a transition to the 2021 code cycle, including ISPSC, for new permits submitted January 1, 2027 or later. That transition is separate from the requirements applicable in November 2026.

Private pools: Texas Local Government Code §214.103 adopts the ISPSC as it existed on May 1, 2019 as the municipal swimming pool/spa code for municipalities that elect to regulate pools/spas. The applicable baseline is the 2018 ISPSC, subject to lawful amendments and the statute’s state-law conflict provisions. This statutory adoption operates independently of Manor’s older residential-code adoption and its guide-only clause for otherwise unadopted reference codes.

Property-specific conditions: Approved planned-unit-development conditions may establish additional screening or protective standards. Section 14.02.031 establishes Old Manor’s historic district but does not itself establish a separate fence certificate, height or material rule.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• Fence permit: The city’s fence guidance requires a permit for fence erection on platted property. Submit two copies of a survey or plot plan showing the fence location and height. Applications use the city’s GovWell permitting system, introduced May 27, 2026. The city’s older fence handout also calls for firefighting and utility access to side and rear yards.

• Repair exceptions: Section 3.01.003 allows an owner/occupant to perform compliant minor improvements and ordinary repairs personally without a permit, subject to the Building Official’s determination and inspection. Section 3.03.055 separately exempts repairs/remodeling unless structural supports or supporting walls are removed/modified, floor space is added, or plumbing/electrical permitting is required. Confirm how a proposed replacement or structural repair fits these provisions.

• Application and inspection: A written, signed application identifies the work, property, use and valuation and includes fees, applicable plans/specifications and reasonably required information. A scaled site plan must address relevant lot lines, easements, setbacks, existing/proposed structures, access, grades, drainage and floodplain conditions. The city’s repairs guidance identifies a fence string-line/setback inspection and a final inspection.

• Published fees: The codified schedule lists a $50 fence permit, $75 for each inspection and a $10 technology fee. For a separate residential in-/above-ground pool project, it lists a $100 permit plus applicable trades, $75 per inspection and a $20 technology fee.

• Chapter 3 bond/deposit: For permits covered by §3.01.003(c)–(e), the estimated construction-cost schedule gives these surety-bond/cash-deposit alternatives: $0–$500, none; $500.01–$1,000, $250/$25; $1,000.01–$2,000, $500/$50; $2,000.01–$5,000, $1,000/$100; $5,000.01–$10,000, $2,500/$250; $10,000.01–$30,000, $10,000/$1,000. Above $30,000, the Building Official determines the percentage and may adjust the amount based on the project. Where required, insurance coverage is $100,000 for one person’s injury/death, $300,000 for multiple persons’ injury/death and $100,000 for property damage. The city may waive insurance for minor projects; government agencies are exempt from the bond/deposit requirement.

• Permit conditions and expiration: Obtain authorization before changing approved plans. A permit does not authorize a violation of law. It expires if work does not commence within 180 days or is suspended/abandoned for more than 180 days. Written extensions must be sought before expiration; a suspension/abandonment extension may be granted once for up to 180 days. Expired work requires a new permit and applicable fees.

• Separate site-development approval: Section 15.01.001(b) separately excepts construction/alteration/addition to a single-family structure or accessory use and construction of a fence outside a major corridor. The fence-specific exception does not cover retaining walls or fences obstructing water flow. Apply the relevant exception and site conditions when determining whether a site-development permit is needed.

• Floodplain and larger land disturbance: Actual development in a mapped special flood hazard area, including excavation, grading or fill, requires floodplain review/approval under Chapter 3. Scaled duplicate plans must show relevant alteration locations, dimensions/elevations and drainage/watercourse changes. Covered development reaches the city’s stormwater pollution prevention plan thresholds at 1 acre of disturbance or 10,000 square feet of impervious cover. The single-family/accessory-use and fence exceptions above remain relevant to site-development approval.

• Public right-of-way: Occupancy, obstruction or construction in the right-of-way requires the applicable application, permit/approval and bond. City facilities or land cannot be altered, occupied or obstructed without express written permission.

• Tree-related work: Developed single-/two-family dwellings with certificates of occupancy are exempt from the tree-preservation division. Section 15.03.036 also excepts single-/two-family lots/units from its non-development tree-removal permit requirement and exempts existing such lots with valid occupancy certificates from protected-tree removal/mitigation requirements. Agricultural property’s tree-preservation exemption requires both county agricultural tax exemption and city agricultural zoning, subject to the division’s stated qualification. The exemption cites §15.06.034(h), while the floodplain-tree provision appears at §15.03.034(h). The latter protects trees with a trunk diameter at breast height of 8 inches or more in a floodplain/floodway, regardless of species, except hazardous trees or trees affecting hydraulics under the responsible city determination. Confirm the cross-reference qualification with Development Services when relying on the agricultural exemption.

• Pool projects: City pool guidance requires a pool permit and completed protective barrier. A fence serving as that barrier must satisfy the applicable pool safeguards as well as applicable city fence rules.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Property lines: The ordinary fence provisions do not specify a numeric setback from a private property line. Establish the actual boundary and review the survey, plat and recorded instruments. Existing fences, mowing lines, curbs, hedges, ditches, GIS/tax-map lines and pavement edges do not establish the legal boundary. For nonresidential/mixed-use development, §14.02.020(d)(2)(C) allows fences/walls that are not part of a structure to encroach into building setbacks while meeting other applicable codes, except required bufferyard setbacks and streetscape landscaping.

• Front yards and accessory uses: The front yard is the full-width space between the front lot line and building setback line, measured perpendicular to the building at its closest point. The subdivision front-yard structure/impervious-cover provision expressly excepts fences. Its separate one-/two-/three-family side/rear accessory-use conditions place swimming pools, qualifying playscapes no more than 9 feet high and qualifying satellite/telecommunications devices no more than 9 feet high at least 3 feet from the property line, screened by a 6-foot privacy fence. The 3-foot distance applies to those accessory uses.

• Easements and rights-of-way: Chapter 10’s subdivision provisions prohibit a permanent structure in or over an easement/right-of-way unless its use/location is necessary for the designated use or will not affect use, maintenance or repair. Relevant code definitions expressly include fences placed in/over these areas. Check the actual instrument and obtain required city permission. Preserve the access required by the city’s fence guidance.

• Drainage and floodplain: Fences must not impede drainage. Water Code §11.086 prohibits diverting or impounding the natural flow of surface water, or allowing a diversion or impoundment caused by that person to continue, so that overflow damages another property. Its prohibition does not affect authorized flood-control levees/improvements or authorized water-conveyance canals, but does not authorize a canal or ditch obstructing a well-defined natural drainage. Its separate qualification allows a flooded landowner to fill the mouths of gullies/sloughs that cut or intersect river/creek banks up to the height of adjoining banks without liability to other owners. In zones A1–30/AE without a designated floodway, cumulative development must not raise the base-flood water level more than 1 foot, subject to the specified 44 CFR 65.12 alternative. Floodway encroachments require the prescribed hydraulic/hydrologic demonstration of no increase in flood levels, or the specified federal alternative process. Floodplain approval depends on the actual work and mapped conditions.

• Existing nonconforming sites: When an abandoned nonconforming site is reoccupied, §14.04.004 requires incidental fences to conform. The code’s abandonment provision uses 90 days. This is a condition on that reoccupancy situation.

• Joint or attached-fence removal: Agriculture Code §§143.121–.123 restrict removal of jointly owned separating/dividing fences and fences attached to another person’s fence, absent mutual consent or the statutory procedure. An owner of an interest in an attached fence may withdraw that fence after six months’ written notice to the other owner or the specified agent, attorney or lessee. An owner whose fence lies wholly on that owner’s land may require an attached fence to be disconnected/withdrawn after the corresponding six-month written notice. Ownership, attachment and the correct recipient matter.

• Livestock enclosures: Section 2.04.009 requires adequate nighttime confinement in a pen, corral or barn; pens/enclosures must be 200 feet from another residence and provide at least 600 square feet per livestock, excluding the owner’s residence from that separation. Livestock cannot be pastured on streets/public property or another person’s land without permission, subject to the stated city park-ranger horse exception.

• Separate livestock standards: Section 2.04.011 requires adequate fencing to prevent escape or damage. Its acreage rule allows one livestock unit on the first 1 acre and another for each additional ½ acre. Grazing must remain at least 50 feet from another occupied structure, excluding the owner’s residence. Barns, pens and other listed enclosures must be at least 150 feet from other residences, businesses, grocery stores, schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and other listed food premises, with the stated own-residence/business exclusions. Section .011 exempts property having both agricultural zoning and agricultural tax exemption, excluding intensive production houses and stockyards. Section .009’s separate 200-foot requirement remains a distinct provision.

• Fowl: An enclosure/coop for two or more fowl must be at least 50 feet from another residence/business, excluding the owner’s/caretaker’s premises, with adequate secure confinement and sanitation.

• Agricultural operations: Agriculture Code §§251.005(c) and .0055 limit city requirements on actual agricultural operations. Application requires clear and convincing evidence that less restrictive means cannot address the purpose and that the requirement is necessary to protect nearby residents or persons on nearby public property against the specified imminent dangers: explosion, flooding, vermin/insects, physical injury, identified contagious disease attributable to the operation, removal of lateral/subjacent support, identified water-supply contamination, radiation, improper toxic-material storage, traffic-hazard vegetation or weapons discharge subject to statutory limits. The governing body must adopt the required public-health resolution after reviewing a health-officer/consultant report identifying evidence, necessity and regulatory methods, effects on generally accepted agricultural practices and any required justification. The statute also protects specified practices and does not allow a city to require agricultural tax designation as a condition of an agricultural operation. A livestock-protection dog is excepted from otherwise applicable city restraint requirements while protecting livestock on owner-controlled property. Wildlife-management activities may require the specified written management plan. Agricultural zoning alone does not establish these statutory protections.

• Agricultural improvements: Under Agriculture Code §251.006, an owner, lessee or occupant of agricultural land is not liable to the state, a governmental unit or the owner, lessee or occupant of other agricultural land for constructing or maintaining a qualifying agricultural improvement, including an agricultural fence, if its construction was not expressly prohibited by statute or by a governmental requirement adopted in accordance with §251.005 and in effect when constructed. The qualifying improvement does not constitute a nuisance and is not otherwise subject to suit or injunction. State and federal statutes remain enforceable. Agricultural land includes qualifying agricultural-appraisal land and other land where agricultural operations exist or may occur; qualifying improvements include fences designed for sheltering, restricting or feeding animal/aquatic life or the specified agricultural storage uses.

• Pipeline-easement construction: Health and Safety Code §§756.121–.123 cover construction, repair, replacement or maintenance on, across, over or under an affected pipeline easement/right-of-way, including work physically impacting or creating risk to the facility. A contrary written agreement with the affected pipeline owner/operator, including a TxDOT right-of-way agreement, can alter applicability. The subchapter excludes municipal construction on municipally owned property unless for private commercial use, and covered work on the specified navigation-district/port-authority property.

• Pipeline operator notice and alternatives: Before covered construction, notify the pipeline operator and satisfy one of the statutory alternatives: the operator determines that the work will not increase risk to the public or risk of a break, leak, rupture or other pipeline damage; if increased risk is determined, the constructor pays the reasonable, necessary and documented costs of required fortifications, barriers, conduits or other protective changes/improvements before proceeding; the work is conducted under an existing written agreement; or a regulated utility must perform the work promptly because of a natural disaster. An 811 request does not replace this process or grant easement rights.

• Excavation notice and exceptions: Utilities Code Chapter 251 covers specified powered/mechanized excavation to 16 inches or more; notice is no earlier than 14 days and no later than 48 hours before work, with its weekend/holiday exclusions. Section 251.156 excepts activities on private property connected with agricultural operations as defined by Tax Code §23.51(2). It separately excepts excavation by or for a person who owns, leases or owns a mineral leasehold interest in the property and operates all underground facilities at the excavation site. Ownership alone does not establish that exception. An excepted agricultural operator who elects to comply receives the specified protection against facility-damage liability if the facility operator fails to comply. Qualifying emergency excavation may begin immediately with reasonable care to protect facilities and notice as promptly as practicable. Private services and other excluded facilities may require separate locating.

• Separate pipeline excavation rules: Railroad Commission Chapter 18 can cover manual excavation deeper than 16 inches, distinct from Chapter 251’s mechanized 16-inches-or-more definition. Its default ticket life is 14 working days; a longer period requires a written agreement signed and dated by the excavator and operator, with copies retained. Refresh an expiring project ticket for the area remaining; generally retain required records for at least four years. Follow the applicable response, second-notice, mark-protection and safe-excavation requirements.

• Before post digging: Request a Texas811 utility locate; wait the applicable period and follow ticket/start instructions, check responses and markings, resolve missing/conflicting information through the current process, protect marks and dig carefully. Locates do not replace permits, pipeline construction notice or private/easement permission.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

• General maximum: Section 15.03.022 generally limits fences/walls to 6 feet. The Building Official may allow up to 8 feet where topographic or other site constraints exist or to enclose a hazardous facility. Required state/federal sound barriers may also be considered/required above 6 feet by the Building Official.

• Single-family front yards: Fences are limited to 4 feet and may be no more than 30% solid within the specified 25-foot intersection box. Fences/walls more than 30% solid may not obstruct views of vehicles or lie within 25 feet of an intersection, measured by forming a box from the apexes of the intersection corners.

• Measurement: Fence/wall height is measured from ground level on the higher side. The separate masonry-plan threshold uses its own measurement described below.

• Long runs: A continuous uninterrupted fence/wall plane cannot exceed 100 feet unless otherwise required. Provide breaks using natural-stone/brick columns, landscaping, transparent sections or a change of material.

• Attached housing with three or more units: The residential materials table limits wood to decorative fencing no more than 4 feet high and prohibits a continuous perimeter fence above 4 feet adjacent to the right-of-way. Perimeter fences/walls must provide breaks for pedestrian/bicycle connections to sidewalks or adjoining developments; decorative security gates may be used.

The current codified provisions above differ from the city’s older fence handout, which gives a 3-foot front-yard limit and a slope-based height/Board-of-Adjustment procedure. For current fence height and the stated conditional increase to 8 feet, use §15.03.022 and the Building Official’s codified authority; confirm the required approval before ordering a taller fence.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• Residential materials: Section 15.03.022 calls for high-quality materials, including brick, stone, masonry, stained cedar and wrought iron. The detached-residential table recognizes wood, wrought iron and masonry and prohibits chain-link. Its decorative-fencing note addresses fencing not visible from or adjacent to a right-of-way. For attached residential development with three or more units, chain-link is also prohibited and the wood/right-of-way limits above apply.

• Vinyl/PVC and unsuitable products: Purpose-made vinyl/PVC fencing is not specifically addressed. Products not intended as permanent fencing are prohibited, with examples including plywood, paper, plastic, fiberglass panels, chicken wire, fabric and sheet, roll or corrugated metals. Confirm the proposed product with the Building Official.

• Tops and security materials: Fences must be flat-topped and continuous, without spikes or sharp points, including barbed wire. Hazardous-facility or similar dangerous-site security fencing may be considered case by case by the Building Official. The code establishes no express ordinary residential allowance for razor-wire or electric security fencing. Local Government Code §250.010’s qualifying alarm/battery-fence protection concerns specified nonresidential property.

• Finish and maintenance: The finished face opposite the supports must face public streets and public parkland. A nonresidential fence must additionally face abutting residential uses. Keep fences safe and plumb; unsafe fences due to neglect, repair, construction or placement must be repaired, replaced or demolished. Fences cannot impede drainage. Remove litter trapped at fence/wall bases.

• Masonry supports: Rock, brick or stucco supports must be at least 14 × 14 inches, at least the approved fence height and no more than 6 inches above it. Steel-reinforced concrete footings must bear in virgin soil/solid bearing, extend at least 2 inches beyond each side of the support and be at least 12 inches deep.

• Masonry plans: A masonry wall or any portion at least 4 feet high requires plans signed/sealed by a registered professional engineer or architect. For this threshold, measure from the base of the footing to the top; for dry-stack walls, from grade beneath the lowest layer to the top.

• Mechanical-equipment screens: When §15.03.021(b) applies to equipment screening in covered development, ground/wall equipment must be screened from public street/parking view on at least three sides. Screening uses native evergreen vegetation, brick, stone, reinforced concrete or similar masonry; fence/wall posts use concrete-based masonry or concrete pillars.

• Animal enclosures: Restraint fencing must have sufficient height and strength to prevent escape. An invisible/electronic fence cannot be the sole restraint. Where the dangerous-animal/registered-dangerous-dog “proper enclosure” requirement applies, the enclosure must have at least a 4-foot fence and a pen at least 5 × 10 feet, secured against child entry and animal escape and providing protection from the elements. Animal Control may require greater height or top/bottom protection upon demonstrated need. The animal-at-large prohibition excepts domestic cats vaccinated as required and wearing the required vaccination tags. The agricultural livestock-protection-dog exception described above also applies in its stated circumstances.

• Vehicle screening: Disabled-vehicle repair, stripping, assembly or parts storage must be inside a structure or behind a 6-foot privacy fence, completely screened from public-road view; the immediate disabled-vehicle exception lasts no more than 48 consecutive hours. Qualifying antique/special-interest collector storage must be lawful, create no health hazard and be screened from ordinary public view by a fence, rapidly growing trees/shrubs or other appropriate means.

• Private pool barrier baseline: The applicable 2018 ISPSC §305 requires a barrier at least 48 inches high on the side facing away from the pool, maintaining that height around the entire perimeter and for 3 feet outward. Bottom clearance is at most 2 inches over soil or 4 inches over a solid surface; the applicable pool-mounted bottom opening is also limited to 4 inches. Openings cannot pass a 4-inch sphere. Solid barriers must not provide handholds/footholds except normal construction tolerances and tooled masonry joints. The city’s older “up to four feet” handout wording does not express this minimum.

• Mesh pool barriers: Bottom clearance is at most 1 inch; the mesh cannot be lifted or deformed to allow a 4-inch sphere beneath a panel. Section attachments are at least 45 inches above grade; deck sleeves must be nonconductive and gates must comply with §305.3. Mesh fencing cannot be mounted atop an onground pool.

• Pool-barrier member spacing: If the distance between the tops of horizontal members is less than 45 inches, place horizontals on the pool side and limit vertical-member/decorative-cutout openings to 1¾ inches. At 45 inches or more, vertical openings may be at most 4 inches, with decorative cutouts still at most 1¾ inches. Diagonal openings are at most 1¾ inches, and diagonal members may be no more than 45 degrees from vertical. Manor’s residential chain-link prohibition continues to apply.

• Pool clearances: Keep climbable equipment at least 36 inches outside the barrier and maintain at least 20 inches between the poolside barrier and water edge.

• Pool gates: Gates must accommodate locking. Pedestrian gates must open outward, self-close and self-latch; service gates remain locked when unused. With double gates, secure one leaf and provide the required self-latching other leaf. Where applicable, openings within 18 inches of the latch release cannot exceed ½ inch. A release below 54 inches must be on the pool side at least 3 inches below the top, with that opening protection.

• Dwelling walls at pools: Doors and windows with sills below 48 inches providing direct access through a dwelling-wall barrier need the specified UL 2017 alarm protection. Deactivation switches must be at least 54 inches high ordinarily, or 48–54 inches in accessible units. An ASTM F1346 safety cover or approved equivalent protection is an alternative under the applicable provision.

• Pool alternatives: An ASTM F1346-compliant lockable spa/hot-tub cover or powered pool safety cover provides the specified exception to §§305.2–.7. An onground pool wall/barrier must achieve 48 inches and satisfy applicable §305.2 and manufacturer conditions. Access steps/ladders must be locked, secured, removed or enclosed; resulting openings cannot pass a 4-inch sphere. The natural-water-edge alternative requires no public shoreline access and barrier extension at least 18 inches beyond the water edge. Natural rock, mountain or similar topography may serve as an approved equivalent natural barrier. These private-pool provisions are separate from common/public-pool enclosure requirements.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

Review applicable HOA/deed/subdivision covenants, architectural requirements, private recorded easements, conservation restrictions and boundary/maintenance/cost agreements. Public approval does not determine ownership or divide fence costs. Private review remains subject to the protections and exceptions in Texas Property Code Chapter 202.

• Security fencing: Section 202.023 generally prevents a covered property owners’ association from prohibiting security measures, including perimeter fencing. It excludes condominiums under Chapters 81/82 and Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations. Associations may regulate fence type and prohibit fencing obstructing a license area, a public/community sidewalk or drainage easement/area. They may require a driveway gate to be set back at least 10 feet from the right-of-way where the driveway intersects a statutorily defined laned roadway, and may enforce a covenant prohibiting fencing in front of the dwelling’s front-most building line.

• 2025 exceptions: Notwithstanding §202.023(c), owners may maintain perimeter/front-building-line fencing installed or constructed before September 1, 2025. The front-building-line prohibition cannot bar the stated perimeter/front fencing when the owner’s residential address is legally protected from disclosure or the owner gives the association law-enforcement documentation of a need for enhanced security. That exception applies to the specified front-line prohibition.

• Water-feature enclosures: Section 202.022 protects qualifying nonclimbable enclosures made of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames, no more than 6 feet high, that conform to applicable safety requirements. Associations may regulate appearance/colors but cannot prohibit the specified black transparent-mesh/metal-frame enclosure. This definition does not establish a pool-barrier minimum.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

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

• Required fence applications and inspections; permit-plan changes and expiration.

• Height, intersection visibility, prohibited materials, masonry construction and unsafe or poorly maintained fences.

• Work in easements or public rights-of-way, blocked access, drainage interference and applicable floodplain/land-disturbance approval.

• Pool-barrier safeguards, animal restraint and applicable agricultural-operation protections.

Utility/pipeline duties and statutory joint/attached-fence removal requirements remain separate legal obligations. HOA review and private boundary, ownership or cost disputes are distinct from municipal approval and enforcement.

USING THIS INFORMATION

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