Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 379H.154 · Subchapter D. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY GENERALLY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A land bank may acquire real property by gift, devise, transfer, exchange, foreclosure, purchase, purchase contracts, lease purchase agreements, installment sales contracts, land contracts, or transfers from a municipality on terms as agreed by the land bank and the municipality, or through any other means on terms and in a manner the land bank considers appropriate.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality served by a land bank or a non-qualifying municipality that has entered into an interlocal contract with a land bank under Section 379H.104 may transfer to the land bank real property of the municipality or non-qualifying municipality on terms and according to procedures determined by the municipality or non-qualifying municipality.
(c) A land bank may acquire real property from this state, the municipality served by the land bank, the county in which that municipality is located, a governmental entity within the county, the federal government, or an agency or department of the federal government.
(d) A land bank shall maintain all of its real property in accordance with the laws and ordinances of the jurisdiction in which the real property is located.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 780 (S.B. 1679), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.379H.htm
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