AgriLife Extension - Texas A&M System
"Be Tree Wise. Protect Life and Limbs."
Owner’s Rights and Responsibilities (excerpts):
Adjoining Landowners
"Whether the tree is causing damage or not, if its branches extend beyond your property line, your neighbor has the right to trim your tree to the property line. Landownership rights extend indefinitely upward and down and those rights are protected from invasion by an adjoining landowner to the same extent as surface rights. In trimming the tree, your neighbor is not allowed to unduly harm your tree, however."
Tree Owner’s Responsibility
"Tree owners in urban areas have a duty to inspect each and every tree on the premises to determine hazard trees and have them removed."
