| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to extension or modification of restrictive covenants in |
|
|
certain residential real estate subdivisions. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 201.004, Property Code, is amended by |
|
|
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: |
|
|
(d) If existing originally applicable restrictions provide |
|
|
a procedure for extension, that procedure may be used for |
|
|
successive extensions of the originally applicable restrictions |
|
|
unless the original restriction instrument expressly prohibits the |
|
|
procedure from being used for successive extensions. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Subdivision (4), Section 210.001, Property Code, |
|
|
is amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(4) "Residential real estate subdivision" or |
|
|
"subdivision" has the meaning assigned by Section 201.003, except |
|
|
that in a county described by Section 210.002(1) a subdivision that |
|
|
is a gated community with private streets need not be located in a |
|
|
city, town, or village or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction |
|
|
of a city, town, or village. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
|
|
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
|
|
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
|
|
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
|
|
Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
|
|
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1672 passed the Senate on |
|
|
May 5, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the |
|
|
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2009, by the |
|
|
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
______________________________ |
| |
Secretary of the Senate |
| |
|
|
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1672 passed the House, with |
|
|
amendment, on May 18, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 136, |
|
|
Nays 0, one present not voting. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
______________________________ |
| |
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Approved: |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Governor |