Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 56 amends provisions of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code relating to suits to abate certain common nuisances. Previous law established that a person maintains a common nuisance if the person performs or fails to perform certain actions but that such provisions applied only to a multiunit residential property as defined by Section 1, Chapter 818, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, that is located in a municipality that has a population of at least 440,000. Senate Bill 56 removes these restrictions and applies the provisions to a multiunit residential property located in any municipality.