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Senate Bill 198 |
Senate Author: Watson |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
House Sponsor: Dukes |
Senate Bill 198 amends the Property Code to prohibit a property owners' association from including or enforcing a provision in a dedicatory instrument that prohibits or restricts a property owner from using drought-resistant landscaping or water-conserving natural turf, but establishes that a property owners' association may require an owner to submit a detailed description or a plan for the installation of such landscaping or turf for review and approval by the property owners' association to ensure aesthetic compatibility with other landscaping in the subdivision. The bill prohibits a property owners' association from unreasonably denying or withholding approval of such a proposed installation or from unreasonably determining that the proposed installation is aesthetically incompatible with other landscaping in the subdivision.