Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 374.012. ALTERNATE APPROVAL PROCESS FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS. (a) A municipality that did not approve the exercise of urban renewal powers under Section 374.011 before April 27, 1973, may approve the exercise of those powers for a specific urban renewal project in the alternativ…

Sec. 374.013. USE OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE RESOURCES. (a) To further the urban renewal objectives of this chapter, a municipality may formulate a workable program to use appropriate private and public resources, including the resources specified by Subsection (b), to encourage urban …

Sec. 374.014. MUNICIPAL URBAN RENEWAL PLAN. (a) A municipality may not prepare an urban renewal plan for an area unless the governing body of the municipality has, by resolution, declared the area to be a slum area, a blighted area, or both, and has designated the area as appropr…

Sec. 374.015. GENERAL MUNICIPAL POWERS RELATING TO URBAN RENEWAL. (a) A municipality may exercise all powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including the power to: (1) conduct preliminary surveys to determine if undertaking an urban renewal pro…

Sec. 374.016. SLUM CLEARANCE. (a) In this section, "slum clearance and redevelopment section" means any substantial contiguous part of an urban renewal area that a municipality proposes to acquire and clear of all buildings, structures, and other improvements for redevelopment an…

Sec. 374.017. DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY. (a) Subject to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions, including covenants running with the land, that the municipality considers to be in the public interest or necessary to implement this chapter and that are written into the instrume…

Sec. 374.021. EXERCISE OF URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT POWERS. (a) A municipality may exercise urban renewal project powers through a board or through municipal officers selected by the governing body of the municipality by resolution. The municipality may exercise those powers through …

Sec. 374.022. CREATION OF URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY. (a) An urban renewal agency created in a municipality is a public body corporate and politic. (b) An urban renewal agency may not transact business or exercise any powers under this chapter until the governing body of the municipali…

Sec. 374.023. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. (a) If an urban renewal agency is created by a municipality, the mayor of the municipality, with the advice and consent of the governing body of the municipality, shall appoint a board of commissioners for the urban renewal agency. (b) The bo…

Sec. 374.024. AGENCY PERSONNEL; REPORT. (a) An urban renewal agency may employ an executive director, technical experts, and other agents and employees as it determines necessary, and may determine the qualifications, duties, and compensation of those personnel. An agency may emp…

Sec. 374.025. APPROVAL REQUIREMENT. An urban renewal agency created under this subchapter may not undertake a renewal or rehabilitation project until the area proposed as a renewal or rehabilitation area and the plan of improvement for the project area are approved by the governi…

Sec. 374.026. URBAN RENEWAL BONDS. (a) An urban renewal agency created under this subchapter may issue bonds from time to time to finance an urban renewal project, including the payment of principal and interest on any advances for surveys and plans. The agency may also issue ref…

Sec. 374.031. ELECTION REQUIRED. (a) A municipality may not use the tax increment method of financing prescribed under this subchapter unless a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting on the question approve that method of financing in an election held by the …

Sec. 374.032. TAX INCREMENT FUND. On approval of an urban renewal plan by the governing body of a municipality and on approval of tax increment financing as required by Section 374.031, the governing body by resolution shall establish a fund known as the tax increment fund. Acts …

Sec. 374.033. COMPUTATION OF TAX INCREMENTS. (a) A tax increment is computed by multiplying the total in property taxes levied and collected by the municipality and all other taxing entities on the taxable real property in an urban renewal project area in a year by a fraction, th…

Sec. 374.034. ALLOCATION OF TAX COLLECTIONS AND TAX INCREMENTS; TAX INCREMENT FUND. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the tax assessor-collector has the sole authority and the duty to collect the taxes levied by the municipality and all other taxing entities on property locat…

Sec. 374.035. TAX INCREMENT BONDS. (a) A municipality may issue tax increment bonds, the proceeds of which may be used to pay redevelopment costs relating to the urban renewal project for which the bonds were issued or to satisfy claims of holders of those bonds. On the approval …

Sec. 374.036. DISBURSEMENTS FROM TAX INCREMENT FUND. (a) Money may be disbursed from a tax increment fund only to satisfy the claims of holders of tax increment bonds issued in aid of the urban renewal project with respect to which the fund was established or to pay project costs…

Sec. 374.037. MUNICIPAL ANNUAL REPORT; STATEMENT. (a) Before July 2 each year, the governing body of the municipality shall submit to the chief executive officer of each taxing entity a report on the status of each urban renewal district. The report must include statements of: (1…

Sec. 374.901. USE OF ACQUIRED PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC HOUSING. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), real property acquired under this chapter may not be sold, leased, granted, conveyed, or otherwise made available for public housing. (b) Real property acquired under this chapter…

Sec. 374.902. EXERCISE OF URBAN RENEWAL POWERS BY CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, a statement in this chapter that applies to a mayor applies to the county judge of a county exercising powers under this section, a statement that applies to the…

Sec. 374.903. URBAN RENEWAL IN DISASTER AREA. If the governing body of a municipality certifies that an area needs redevelopment or rehabilitation because of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe for which the governor has certified the state's need fo…

Sec. 374.904. COSTS OF RELOCATION. If the relocating, raising, rerouting, changing of grade, or altering the construction of a railroad, electric transmission line, pipeline, or telephone or telegraph property or facility is made necessary by the exercise of powers conferred unde…

Sec. 374.905. MUNICIPAL PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM LEVY AND EXECUTION. (a) All municipal property, including funds, owned or held for the municipality for the purposes of this chapter are exempt from levy and sale by execution. An execution or other judicial proceeding may not issue ag…

Sec. 374.906. POWERS OF PUBLIC BODY. (a) To aid in the planning or implementation of an urban renewal project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body, after determining that a project is beneficial to its residents and after setting terms with or…

Sec. 374.907. TITLE OF PURCHASER. An instrument executed by a municipality or by an urban renewal agency that purports to convey a right, title, or interest in property under this chapter is conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with this chapter as regards th…

Sec. 374.908. CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (a) A public official or employee of a municipality, including an official or employee of an urban renewal agency that exercises urban renewal project powers for a municipality under Subchapter C or of any other municipal board or commission, m…

Sec. 374.909. JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. (a) An action brought to review, modify, suspend, or satisfy a rule, order, decision, or other act of the governing body of a municipality or other agency shall be trial de novo as that term is used in an appeal from a justice of the peace cour…

Sec. 374.910. EFFECT ON MUNICIPAL POWERS. (a) This chapter does not repeal a charter provision adopted by a home-rule municipality to accomplish the same purposes as this chapter. This chapter is cumulative of municipal powers. (b) The powers conferred by this chapter are supplem…