Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 378.002 · Chapter 378. NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE
CREATION OF ZONE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A municipality may create a neighborhood empowerment zone covering a part of the municipality if the municipality determines the creation of the zone would promote:
(1) the creation of affordable housing, including manufactured housing, in the zone;
(2) an increase in economic development in the zone;
(3) an increase in the quality of social services, education, or public safety provided to residents of the zone; or
(4) the rehabilitation of affordable housing in the zone.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 305, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 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.378.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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