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House Bill 2359 |
House Author: Ortega et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-17 |
Senate Sponsor: Rodríguez |
Current law establishes that a person who maintains a place to which persons habitually go for certain criminal purposes and who knowingly tolerates the activity and furthermore fails to make reasonable attempts to abate the activity maintains a common nuisance. House Bill 2359 amends the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to include the following among those criminal purposes: criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, arson, criminal mischief that causes a pecuniary loss of $500 or more, and an unlawful graffiti offense. The bill authorizes a court that determines that a person is maintaining a vacant lot or a vacant or abandoned building that is a common nuisance to order the appointment of a receiver to manage the property or render any other order allowed by law as necessary to abate the nuisance.