Tex. Const. art. III, § 52j · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
SALE OF REAL PROPERTY ACQUIRED THROUGH EMINENT DOMAIN.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
A governmental entity may sell real property acquired through eminent domain to the person who owned the real property interest immediately before the governmental entity acquired the property interest, or to the person's heirs, successors, or assigns, at the price the entity paid at the time of acquisition if:
(1) the public use for which the property was acquired through eminent domain is canceled;
(2) no actual progress is made toward the public use during a prescribed period of time; or
(3) the property is unnecessary for the public use.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Added Nov. 6, 2007.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.3.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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