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$106-791 LA PORTE CODE <br />DIVISION 4. FENCING AND LANDSCAPING REQUEREM NTS <br />Sec.* 106-79L Front yard areas. <br />No fences, structures, grading, or barrier hedges shall be permitted. within any front yard <br />areas except in the case of large lot residential lots, or in the case of lots with a front yard <br />directly adjacent to the shoreline of Galveston Bay, as provided is section 106-792 <br />Sec. 106-79% Large lot residential lots. <br />In the case. of large lot: residential lots, six feet perimeter fences are permitted as an <br />accessory use. In the: case of lots with a front. yard directly adjacent to the shoreline of <br />Galveston Bay, four feet front yard fences are permitted parallel and adjacent to the side lot <br />lines. However, such fences shall not be permitted oa- the fiont lot line directly adjacent to <br />Galveston Bay, and shall.only be constituted of chain link These exceptions. do not permit <br />structures; grading, or barrier hedges. <br />Sec..106-79& Fences in side and rear yards. - <br />Within side yards and rear yards; fences of not higher_than six feet excluding six-inch rat <br />boards and walls 42 inches high or less shall be permitted. <br />Sec. 106.794. Fences. and trees on utility easements <br />Fences or.trees-placed upon utility easements are subject to removal at the owner's expense <br />If required for the maintenance or improvement of the utility. Trees on utility: easements <br />containing overhead wires shall not exceed ten feet. in height. <br />Sec. 106-795. Maintenance offences. <br />Both sides of the fence must be.maintained in good'coadition by the owner of the fence. <br />Sea 106-796.- Barbed wire fences. . <br />Barbed wire fences shall not be permitted, used or constructed. except in industrial districts <br />or to control livestock as hereinafter -provided. <br />Sec. 106-797. Property line feaces.in industrial districts. <br />ProPY line fences is any industrial .district shall hat exceed eight feet in height except <br />that: <br />(1) Fences erected along a property line in common with a residential district shall be <br />subject to the provisions herein described in residential district fences; and <br />(2) Fences in commercial and industrial zones which are'primarily erected as a security. <br />measure may have arms projecting into the applicant's property on which barbed wire <br />CD106:88 {��� <br />