Burn ban in effect inside city limits

  • Burn ban in effect inside city limits
    Burn ban in effect inside city limits
I had always assumed that when the county judge declared an emergency or a burn ban that the order applied to the entire county, after all we pay county taxes in the cities too. I assumed wrong. The burn ban did not apply to incorporated municipalities like Silsbee, Lumberton and Kountze. In Silsbee this issue had never been brought up, but when the county judge declared a burn ban a coupleā€¦

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