Tex. Transp. Code § 314.012 · Subchapter B. AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE OR CONDEMN PROPERTY
RESOLUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A governing body that determines to proceed under this chapter shall declare its determination by resolution that may:
(1) state the nature, extent, and limits of the improvement to be made; and
(2) describe the real property proposed to be condemned by:
(A) the lot or block number;
(B) the number of front feet;
(C) the name of the owner; or
(D) any other description that substantially identifies the property.
(b) A mistake or omission in the resolution does not invalidate it.
(c) Passage of the resolution is conclusive evidence of the public use and necessity of the proposed improvement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.314.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 310559901fdb7282d22cc0f736f108761ba6adff0d067d6f2e5b66d3a1651636
- Composed by
- 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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