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You are required to have the Transfer of Demolisher sheet for a junk vehicle abated by the city to TX-DOT within how many days? - correct answer - 5 Days An antique Auto means a passenger car or truck that is at least _____ years old - correct answer - 25 How soon should you notify the owner of an abandoned vehicle once the vehicle has been taken into custody? - correct answer - No later than the 10th day after it is taken to custody An abandoned Motor Vehicle is inoperable, and is? - correct answer - More than 5 y/o and has been left unattended on public property for more than 48 hours ______ means a motor vehicle or special interest vehicle of ANY age that has not been changed from its original manufacturers specifications, and because of its historic interest is being preserved by the hobbyist - correct answer - Special Interest
Notice Provided for the removal of a public nuisance(junk vehicle) must provide no less than? - correct answer - Ten (10) Days Junk Vehicle notice must be personally delivered or? - correct answer - Sent Certified mail If a Hearing is requested by a person for whom the junk vehicle belongs, the hearing shall not take place earlier than the _______ after the date of the service of the notice - correct answer - Eleven (11) Days T OR F? If an abandoned motor vehicle is not claimed the owner or lien holder waives all rights and interests to the item - correct answer - True Who do you notify if an abandoned vehicle was on the property for more than 48 hours?? - correct answer - Owner and Occupant Newspaper Lien Holder What Steps can a community take to make the enforcement administration of a sign regulation efficient? - correct answer - Require a building permit before an owner constructs repairs or removes a sign Sign are generally regulated by? - correct answer - Zoning What is the most common limitation of signs? - correct answer - Size of the sign
integrity zoning and or disposal of refuse the case is filed in what court? - correct answer - District Court as a Chap. 54 Regulations of signs especially regarding the content and the commercial or non commercial use of signs must be approved by the city council with consideration of what U.S Constitution provisions? - correct answer - First amendment _______ is the procedure that a fire marshall, code officer or health official may use to obtain a search warrant? - correct answer - Probable Cause A board of Adjustments is established by what level of government regulation? - correct answer - State Law According to local government code (state Law) A Board of Adjustment must consist of how many members? - correct answer - Four A municipality which adopts an ordinance in accordance with the local government code may repair a building with 10 or fewer units to what extent? - correct answer - Minimum standards or 25/50 rule Identify the Two codes primarily involved in the house rehabilitation process - correct answer - Building code and Housing code Under sanitation code if personal service cannot be obtained or the owners post office address is unknown the municipality may provide notice of violation in what other form? - correct answer - Publication at least twice within ten consecutive days
Posting notice on or near the front door of each building on to which the violation relates. Posting notice on a placard attached to a steak driven into the ground n the property to which the violation relates Years ago the state did away with the 2$ disposal charge of tires and replaced it with a battery fee. What is the amount of that fee? - correct answer - $ If a HUD manufactured home request application is denied the applicant muse be informed within how many days? - correct answer - 45 DAys ____ provides local cities or towns with a measure of self government (able to pass their own laws) being able to write their laws based on State Legislation (state laws - correct answer - Home Rule _____ cities or town basically operate under state legislation (state laws) without changing those laws - correct answer - General Law Most cities or towns become home rule charters at a population of _____ this is done by vote of the citizens. - correct answer - 5000 The _____ amendment ensures state governments do not discriminate in applying their laws to different individuals or groups of people - correct answer - 14th Fourteenth The ____amendment prohibits generally the search and seizure of any property unless a warrant has been issued. - correct answer - Fourth Amendment
The zoning term I type is used for a zoning technique under which municipality adopts a zoning district in the text of its zoning ordinance but does not map? - correct answer - Floating Zones Police Power is the primary form of ______ enforcement - correct answer - Zoning A means of judiciously affording relief to those adversely affected by a zoning ordinance but not meant to be a method of completely departing from the intent of a zoning ordinance is known as? - correct answer - Variances What is a simple process in which sound decisions are made and action taken based on collection, analysis, and management of information? - correct answer - Urban Planning What component of a comprehensive plan identifies the best location for residential commercial and industrial sites within a city? - correct answer - Land use plan The Village of Euclid vs. Amber Realty company was a US supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of zoning and happened in what year? - correct answer - 1926 What provides the best opportunity for systematically using volunteers in enforcement? - correct answer - Planning and zoning commission What section of the comprehensive plan tells the average citizen what guidelines principles and standards the governing body and the planning and Zoning commissions will apply in making decisions? - correct answer - Policies Document
A set of private multiparty contracts created for the benefit of residents of a specific subdivision are known as? - correct answer - Deed restrictions Zoning based on the right of a city to protect the publics health safety and general welfare is known as? - correct answer - Police Power Before the city council of a home rule city may adopt a general zoning scheme, the city must? - correct answer - Plan The standard zoning enabling act of the U.S Department of Commerce was published in what year? - correct answer - 1926 The body empowered to grant a variance from certain provision in the zoning ordinance when literal enforcement would result in unnecessary hardship the variance is not contrary to public interest and the spirit of the ordinance is maintained is known as the? - correct answer - Board of Adjustments What is associated with zoning changes of small tracts of land within an area of otherwise similar land uses? - correct answer - Changes in land use classification Name the two times of zoning? - correct answer - Performing zoning and standard or Euclidean What land use areas are typically listed in a zoning ordinance? - correct answer - Residential Commercial industrial and agricultural
Land use that predates the current zoning ordinance and violates the current zoning ordinance is known as? - correct answer - Nonconforming use What is the process of terminating nonconformance on the basis of a time schedule that has been prescribed by the zoning board of adjustments? - correct answer - Amortization Basically, subdivision regulations are? - correct answer - Planned development restrictions Sub division Ordinances How may a potential juror be excused from serving? - correct answer - Venire cannot speak, read, or write the English language The definition of Venire is? - correct answer - Potential Juror The procedure that a Fire Marshall, Code officer, or Health official may use to obtain a search warrant is known as? - correct answer - Probable cause What is considered the least desirable forms of persuasiveness for a code enforcement officer? - correct answer - Writing a citation and legal action T or F?A person aggrieved by a decision, tax payer, an officer, department, Board or Bureau of a municipality may all present to a court of record a verified petition stating that the decision of the Board of Adjustment is illegal in the whole or in part and specifying the grounds of illegality - correct answer - True
The ______ Amendment of the U.S Constitution must be concidered by the city council wen approving the regulation of signs, especially regarding the content and the commercial or non-commercial use of the signs. - correct answer - FIRST A municipal corporation has only those powers which are expressly granted to it y charter or other legislation, implied or necessarily incident to the express powers and essential and indispensable to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation in regards to city powers is known as? - correct answer - Dillon's Rule What level of government regulation establishes a board of Adjustments? - correct answer - State Law According to the Local Government code, a municipality may by ordinance, require the vacation, relocation of occupants, securing, repair, removal, or demolition of a building. The ordinance must include what criteria? - correct answer - Substandard Structure Definition When a home rule city brings an action against an owner of a property that is not in substantial compliance with municipal ordinances regarding ire protection, structural integrity, zoning, and disposal of refuse, the case is filled in what court?
- correct answer - District court As provided in the local government code, chapter 214, a home-rule municipality may bring an action in district court against an owner of residential property that is not in substantial compliance with the municipal ordinance regarding? - correct answer - Substandard Buildings _______ establishes the minimum standards essential for safe, sanitary and fit human habitation by governing use, maintenance and occupancy of existing building? - correct answer - Housing Code
The city of Galveston Texas became the first city to officially adopt the commission form of government in what year? - correct answer - 1901 The BOA has exclusive jurisdiction over what three things? - correct answer - Variance, Special Exception, Appeals from the decision of the administrative personnel What is a promise by one person to another do, or refrain from doing a particular act known as a? (noun) - correct answer - Covenant When amending a zoning scheme, within how many feet do you notify property owners? - correct answer - 200 - Feet What is probably cause? - correct answer - Reason to believe A municipality shall impose a lien against the land on which a building stands or stood unless it has a ______ as protection by the Texas Constitution - correct answer - Homestead According to the texas health and safety code chapter 343, weeds means all rank and uncultivated vegetable growth or matter that has grown more than ______ in height - correct answer - 36 Non-conforming uses can be categorized two ways. What are they? - correct answer - Legal and illegal non-conforming uses Council Manager form of Government was officially adopted in which cities and in what years? - correct answer - Sumpter, SC in 1912 and Dayton , OH in 1914
On what date did mobile homes covert to HUD-Code Manufactured Homes? - correct answer - June 15, In Compliance with the comprehensive plan, zoning regulations are designed to? - correct answer - Lesson congestion on streets and provide adequate light. Promote health and general welfare in the community and to safetly secure from fire panic and other dangers. Prevent overcrowding and avoid undue concentration of population. Facilitate Provisions of transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks, and other public requirments In the housing code of your city it states that a dwelling must have 150 sq ft for the first person living in the dwelling, and additional 100 sq ft for each additional person, living in the dwelling of the are of 12 years old and over. Additionally it states anyone living less that 12 years old but more than 12 months old should be computed at 50% of the required living space. OF the following groups which is the largest family that could occupy a 675 sq ft house? - correct answer - A mother, Father, one infant 2 months old, three childen- 11,14, 17, and a 78 grandpa T or F? Any motor vehicle of any age that has not been changed from original manufacturers specifications and because of its historic interest is being preserved by a hobbyist can be a "special Interest Vehicle" - correct answer - TRUE To be an "antique Vehicle" a passenger car or truck must be at least ____ years old? - correct answer - 25
The right of all persons to receive the guarantees and safeguards of the law and the judicial process, including such constitutional requirements as adequate notice, assistance of counsel, and the right to remain silent, to a speedy trial, to an impartial jury, and to confront and secure witnesses is known as substantive...?
- correct answer - Due Process A phrase used to denote a hypothetical person who excersizes qualities of attention, knowledge, intelligence, and judgement that society requires of its member for the protection of their own interest and the interest of others is known as a (n)??? - correct answer - Reasonable Person Enabling Legislation is defined as? - correct answer - The act of giving or enacting laws The power to make laws via legislation in contrast to court-made laws A general law city? - correct answer - Basically operate under the laws of the state with some execptions to those laws What is, the opinion that municipal governments only have the powers that are expressly granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied from that grant of power, and those that essential and indispensable to the municipalities existence and functioning known as? - correct answer - Dillon's Rule The most desirable method of code enforcement is by means of..? - correct answer - Voluntary compliance
Absolute Immunity- - correct answer - The status of a person or body that places them beyond the law and makes them free from legal obligations. Immunity for building official or code enforcement officer not liable for their discretionary acts. Sovereign immunity- - correct answer - The doctrine that the government state or federal is immune to lawsuit unless it gives its consent. The doctrine sovereign immunity originated with the maxim "that kind can do no wrong" Dillon's rule - correct answer - Municipal governments only have the powers that are expressly granted to them by the state legislature; those that are necessarily implied from the grant of power, and those that are essential and indispensable to the municipalities existence and functioning
