Pleading Ordinances.
Houston City Charter, art. IX, § 13
in effectSection 13. - Pleading Ordinances.
It shall be sufficient in all judicial proceedings to plead any ordinance of the city by caption, without embodying the entire ordinance in the pleading, and all printed ordinances or codes of ordinances shall be admitted in evidence in any suit, and shall have the same force and effect as the original ordinance. Certified copies of ordinances may also be used in evidence. (Act of 1905)
Source: City of Houston, Code of Ordinances and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/houston/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTIXGEPR_S13PLORFetched: 10/26/2026
