Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 253.002 · Chapter 253. SALE OR LEASE OF PROPERTY BY MUNICIPALITIES
TRANSACTIONS CONCERNING AN ISLAND, FLAT, OR SUBMERGED LAND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A municipality may sell, convey, lease, or provide an option to all or a part of an island, flat, or submerged land the municipality owns and may make development plans and contracts for these purposes, at the times and on the terms that the governing body determines are proper and in the public interest, if the state or the Republic of Texas relinquished its interest in the land to the municipality before April 23, 1953.
(b) For a home-rule municipality the charter of which authorizes a referendum on such a transaction, the governing body may make the transaction without advertising or receiving bids, but the transaction may not take effect unless either it has been approved at a referendum ordered for that purpose or the period for the submission of a petition for a referendum on the transaction has expired.
(c) This section does not grant or convey to a municipality title to oil, gas, or other minerals.
(d) This section prevails over any conflicting charter provision of a home-rule municipality.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.253.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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