Bill Text: TX HB2449 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the acquisition of real property by the Texas Department of Transportation to protect a state highway.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2449 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2449-Introduced.html
86R11410 BEE-D | ||
By: Springer | H.B. No. 2449 |
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relating to the acquisition of real property by the Texas | ||
Department of Transportation to protect a state highway. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 203.052, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) For the purposes of Subsection (b), an interest in | ||
real property necessary or convenient to protect a state highway | ||
includes an interest in real property adjacent to the right-of-way | ||
of the highway on which a building: | ||
(1) is maintained in a manner that is structurally | ||
unsafe or constitutes a hazard to safety, health, or public welfare | ||
because of inadequate maintenance, unsanitary conditions, | ||
dilapidation, obsolescence, disaster, damage, or abandonment; and | ||
(2) obstructs or partially obstructs the highway. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |