1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to disposition of public property in a readjustment zone.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2310.410, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 2310.410. DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY IN READJUSTMENT
1-7 ZONE. (a) After an area is designated as a readjustment zone, the
1-8 state, a municipality, or a county that owns a surplus building or
1-9 vacant land in the zone may dispose of the building or land by:
1-10 (1) selling the building or land at a public auction;
1-11 (2) selling the building or land without notice or
1-12 bidding as provided by Subsection (d); or
1-13 (3) [(2)] establishing an urban homestead program
1-14 described by Subsection (e) [(c)].
1-15 (b) A municipality or county may sell a surplus building or
1-16 vacant land in the readjustment zone at less than fair market value
1-17 if the governing body of the municipality or county by ordinance or
1-18 order, as appropriate, adopts criteria that specify the conditions
1-19 and circumstances under which the sale may occur and the public
1-20 purpose to be achieved by the sale. [The building or land may be
1-21 sold to a buyer who is not the highest bidder if the criteria and
1-22 public purpose specified in the ordinance or order are satisfied.]
1-23 A copy of the ordinance or order must be filed with the department
1-24 not later than the day on which the sale occurs.
2-1 (c) If the surplus building or vacant land is sold at a
2-2 public auction, the building or land may be sold to a buyer who is
2-3 not the highest bidder if the criteria and public purpose specified
2-4 in the ordinance or order adopted under Subsection (b) are
2-5 satisfied.
2-6 (d) The surplus building or vacant land may be sold without
2-7 complying with notice or bidding requirements if the criteria and
2-8 public purpose specified in the ordinance or order adopted under
2-9 Subsection (b) are satisfied.
2-10 (e) [(c)] An urban homestead program must provide that:
2-11 (1) the state, municipality, or county is to sell to
2-12 an individual a residence or part of a residence that it owns for
2-13 an amount not to exceed $100;
2-14 (2) as a condition of the sale, the individual must
2-15 agree by covenant in the deed conveying the residence to live in
2-16 the residence for at least seven years and to renovate or remodel
2-17 the residence to meet the level of maintenance stated in an
2-18 agreement between the individual and the governmental entity; and
2-19 (3) after the individual satisfies the seven-year
2-20 residency and property improvement requirements of the agreement,
2-21 the governmental entity shall assign the residence to the
2-22 individual.
2-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3161 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3161 was passed by the Senate on May
20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor