Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 392.061 · Subchapter D. POWERS AND DUTIES OF A HOUSING AUTHORITY
EMINENT DOMAIN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An authority may acquire an interest in real property, including a fee simple interest, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain after it adopts a resolution describing the real property and declaring the acquisition of the property necessary for the purposes of the authority under this chapter.
(b) An authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code, or by other applicable statutory provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
(c) An authority may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property already devoted to public use, but the authority may not acquire real property belonging to a municipality, a county, another political subdivision, or the state without the consent of the governmental entity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.392.htm
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