FUMIGATION.

Dallas City Code ch. 19, art. VII

in effect

Dallas City Code § 19-94 DEFINITIONS.

SEC. 19-94. DEFINITIONS. In this article: (1) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this article or the director’s designated representative. (2) FUMIGATION and EXTERMINATION BY FUMIGATION mean the use of hydrocyanic acid gas, cyanogen, chloropicrin, methyl bromide, or any other poisonous, noxious, or dangerous gases or fumes which are liable to affect human beings by causing sickness or death, for the extermination of germs, bacteria, insects, vermin, rats, or other pests in any place of domestic habitation, hotel, apartment hotel, apartment building, tenement building, store, office, hospital, asylum, home, rooming house, place of public assembly, or any other building or place. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 27697)

Dallas City Code § 19-95 GENERAL SAFEGUARDS.

SEC. 19-95. GENERAL SAFEGUARDS. All persons fumigating or engaged in extermination by fumigation shall take all necessary and reasonable precautions and safeguards in connection with such fumigation as shall be necessary to protect all persons who might be affected by such fumigation. (Ord. 3281)

Dallas City Code § 19-96 NOTICE REQUIRED GENERALLY.

SEC. 19-96. NOTICE REQUIRED GENERALLY. Any person intending to generate or release hydrocyanic acid gas or other dangerous gases or fumes for fumigation purposes shall, before starting such generation or release of gases, file written notice with the director, the police department, and the fire department of the city at least 24 hours before beginning such fumigation; provided, that any person intending to fumigate a mobile unit such as a boxcar or truck is required to give a written notice only four hours before beginning such fumigation. Such notice, either the four hour notice or the 24 hour notice, must state the following: (1) The location of the building, mobile unit, or place to be fumigated. (2) The type of fumigation to be used, including the kind of gas, fumes, and warning agent. (3) The time such work is to be started and when the building or place is to be reopened. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 11807; 22026; 27697)

Dallas City Code § 19-97 NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS.

SEC. 19-97. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS. When hydrocyanic acid gas, or other dangerous gases or fumes, are to be used for fumigation, the person undertaking such fumigation shall personally inspect the premises before beginning the fumigation and shall serve notice over his signature upon all responsible occupants of each room or apartment within the danger area, stating the danger of the process and the precautions to be observed, designating the rooms or apartments that must be vacated and indicating the time when the gas is to be generated or liberated. The form of this notice must be approved by the director. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 27697)

Dallas City Code § 19-98 DOORS TO BE LOCKED, ETC.

SEC. 19-98. DOORS TO BE LOCKED, ETC. Before fumigation, the person fumigating shall personally inspect all rooms and apartments ordered vacated under Section 19-97, and shall see that such rooms are unoccupied by persons or domestic animals, after which all doors to such rooms, excepting one exit door to the rooms or apartments to be gassed, shall be securely locked and sealed. In addition such windows or wall openings as might possibly be used to gain entrance shall be sealed and shall be locked or barred in such a way as to prevent entrance. Immediately upon generating or liberating the gas, the door through which the fumigator leaves shall be securely locked and sealed, and all keys obtainable to all the rooms or apartments ordered vacated shall be retained by the fumigator until all danger is passed. (Ord. 3281)

Dallas City Code § 19-99 WARNING SIGNS TO BE POSTED.

SEC. 19-99. WARNING SIGNS TO BE POSTED. (a) Prior to beginning fumigation, suitable warning signs must be posted on all entrances or doors to the premises to be fumigated, as follows: DANGER FUMIGATING WITH POISON GAS KEEP AWAY ============ BY ORDER OF THE CITY OF DALLAS (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF FUMIGATOR) (b) Such signs must be not less than 24 inches by 18 inches, and be printed in red ink on white cardboard, or metal white background. The letters in the word “danger” must be at least two inches high, and all others, except the signature of the fumigator, at least three-fourths of an inch high. At night, and in such places where the natural light between sunrise and sunset is dim, such signs must be illuminated so as to make the reading matter on the sign plainly legible. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 27697)

Dallas City Code § 19-100 GUARDS REQUIRED.

SEC. 19-100. GUARDS REQUIRED. Whenever hydrocyanic acid gas and other dangerous gases and fumes are used for fumigation, a sufficient number of guards shall be kept at the entrance or entrances to the building or place to be fumigated, in order to prevent any person from entering such building or place while the gas remains therein. Such guards shall remain on duty until after the building or place is opened for airing, and until the gas has been completely dispelled from such building or place. The fumigator shall be responsible for reopening such building or place after the fumigation, and shall be responsible for seeing that such building or place is safe for human habitation before allowing persons to enter. (Ord. 3281)

Source: City of Dallas, Dallas City Code and City Charter (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/dallas/latest/dallas_tx/0-0-0-144115Fetched: 10/26/2026