"Rusty Mase" wrote in message
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| The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department,
| Environmental and Consumer Health Unit recently cited one of my
| neighbors for having on his 4 acre lot in Travis County a:
|
| "condition constituting a public nuisance, to wit: high grass and
| weeds, rubbish, trash and debris: objectionable material: and
standing
| water." (Form LN Weed/Rub 7/1/02)
|
| This was cited as a violation of Chapter 341 of the Texas Health and
| Safety Code. I looked over the code and the language is very vague
| and potentially highly restrictive on leaving "natural habitats" in
| your yard. It would easily preclude my little piece of native
prairie
| as it might constitute a fire hazard, harbour rodents and snakes,
and
| be objectionable to those who prefer mowed lawns.
|
| Anyone else seen one of these?
|
| Rusty Mase
|
|

We had a neighbor who tried to lay one of these on us. They had rats
and blamed our compost pile. The health department people came out,
looked at our yard, laughed, and apologized. Who knows what they told
the obnoxo neighbors, who have since gone to the 'burbs, where they
belonged in the first place.