Bill Text: TX SB12 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limiting the applicability of municipal and county regulations affecting real property.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-22 - Left pending in committee [SB12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB12-Introduced.html
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By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 12 |
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relating to limiting the applicability of municipal and county | ||
regulations affecting real property. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 250.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 250.009. LIMITATION ON REGULATION OF REAL PROPERTY. | ||
(a) This section applies only to a municipal or county prohibition | ||
or restriction on the use or development of real property that is | ||
not subject to Chapter 245, including prohibitions or restrictions | ||
exempt from that chapter under Section 245.004. | ||
(b) A municipality or county may not enforce an ordinance, | ||
order, or other regulation adopted by the municipality or county, | ||
as applicable, that prohibits or restricts the use or development | ||
of real property that has been platted if the ordinance, order, or | ||
other regulation was not in effect on the date the owner of the | ||
property acquired title to the property. | ||
(c) The limitation in Subsection (b) does not apply to a | ||
parcel of land for which the owner has filed with the county clerk | ||
of the county in which the land is located a written waiver of the | ||
limitation. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. |