Tex. Tax Code § 11.41 · Subchapter C. ADMINISTRATION OF EXEMPTIONS
PARTIAL OWNERSHIP OF EXEMPT PROPERTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a person who qualifies for an exemption as provided by this chapter is not the sole owner of the property to which the exemption applies, the exemption shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the value of the property interest the person owns and the denominator of which is the value of the property.
(b) In the application of this section, community ownership by a person who qualifies for the exemption and the person's spouse is treated as if the person owns the community interest of the person's spouse.
(c) An heir property owner who qualifies heir property as the owner's residence homestead under this chapter is considered the sole owner of the property for the purposes of this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 2244, ch. 841, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 194, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1039, Sec. 15, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 663 (S.B. 1943), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TX/htm/TX.11.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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