Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 245.003 · Chapter 245. ISSUANCE OF LOCAL PERMITS
APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter applies only to a project in progress on or commenced after September 1, 1997. For purposes of this chapter a project was in progress on September 1, 1997, if:
(1) before September 1, 1997:
(A) a regulatory agency approved or issued one or more permits for the project; or
(B) an application for a permit for the project was filed with a regulatory agency; and
(2) on or after September 1, 1997, a regulatory agency enacts, enforces, or otherwise imposes:
(A) an order, regulation, ordinance, or rule that in effect retroactively changes the duration of a permit for the project;
(B) a deadline for obtaining a permit required to continue or complete the project that was not enforced or did not apply to the project before September 1, 1997; or
(C) any requirement for the project that was not applicable to or enforced on the project before September 1, 1997.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 73, Sec. 2, eff. May 11, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.245.htm
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- 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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