TO: | Honorable Joe Nixon, Chair, House Committee on Civil Practices |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB427 by Dutton (Relating to the remedies available to a person to abate a nuisance in a municipality.), As Introduced |
If a suit is brought against a municipality, the municipality would incur legal costs in preparing and presenting its defense. If the municipality is court-ordered to take actions, additional costs would be incurred for warning the person who uses the premise that creates the nuisance or for filing a lawsuit against that person. If the municipality prevails in a lawsuit against the person with the nuisance, the municipality could recoup court costs. If the municipality must purchase the property or exercise eminent domain, it would incur the cost of the acquisition and maintenance of the property. Those costs could be at least partially recouped through reselling the property.
Because most costs could be recouped, and others could be absorbed by most municipal budgets, no significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council
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LBB Staff: | JOB, GO, JB, DLBa
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