AN ACT
1-1 relating to the sale of real property by counties.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 263.008, Local Government Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 263.008. REAL ESTATE BROKER [REALTOR] AGREEMENTS AND
1-6 FEES FOR THE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) In this section, "real
1-7 estate broker" means a person licensed as a real estate broker
1-8 under The Real Estate License Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas
1-9 Civil Statutes).
1-10 (b) The commissioners court of a county may contract with a
1-11 real estate broker [person licensed under The Real Estate License
1-12 Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)] to sell a tract
1-13 of real property that is owned by the county.
1-14 (c) [(b)] The commissioners court of a county may pay a fee
1-15 if a real estate broker [person licensed under The Real Estate
1-16 License Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)]
1-17 produces a ready, willing, and able buyer to purchase a tract of
1-18 real property [that is owned by the county].
1-19 (d) If a contract made under Subsection (b) requires a real
1-20 estate broker to list the tract of real property for sale for at
1-21 least 30 days with a multiple-listing service used by other real
1-22 estate brokers in the county, the commissioners court on or after
1-23 the 30th day after the date the property is listed may sell the
1-24 tract of real property to a ready, willing, and able buyer who is
2-1 produced by any real estate broker using the multiple-listing
2-2 service and who submits the highest cash offer.
2-3 (e) The commissioners court may sell a tract of real
2-4 property under this section without complying with the requirements
2-5 for conducting a public auction, including the requirements
2-6 prescribed by Section 263.001.
2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1896 passed the Senate on
May 17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that the
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 1999, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1896 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor