Tex. Prop. Code § 202.008 · Chapter 202. CONSTRUCTION AND ENFORCEMENT OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS
LIMITATION ON FINES DURING RESIDENTIAL WATER RESTRICTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For the purposes of this section, "residential watering restriction" means a temporary restriction of water use to irrigate residential vegetation or turf that is mandated by a municipality, water utility, or other wholesale or retail water supplier as part of a strategy to conserve water during a period of drought.
(b) A property owners' association may not assess a fine against a property owner for a violation of an applicable restrictive covenant that requires the owner to plant or install grass or turf or maintain green vegetation or turf or prohibits discolored or brown vegetation or turf on the property:
(1) during a period when the owner's property is subject to a residential watering restriction under which discolored or brown vegetation or turf could reasonably result; and
(2) before the 60th day after the date a residential watering restriction described by Subdivision (1) is lifted.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 168 (H.B. 517), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.202.htm
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