GroundRules
← Search the law
Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 534.021: APPROVAL AND NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.

Read at publisher ↗
Where this section sits in the code
  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  3. SUBTITLE A. SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  4. CHAPTER 534. COMMUNITY SERVICES
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. COMMUNITY CENTERS

(a) A community center must receive from each appropriate department prior written approval to acquire real property, including a building, if the acquisition involves the use of funds of that department or local funds required to match funds of that department. In addition, for acquisition of nonresidential property, the community center must notify each local agency that appoints members to the board of trustees not later than the 31st day before it enters into a binding obligation to acquire the property.

(b) A community center must notify each appropriate department and each local agency that appoints members to the board of trustees not later than the 31st day before it enters into a binding obligation to acquire real property, including a building, if the acquisition does not involve the use of funds of that department or local funds required to match funds of that department. Each appropriate commissioner, on request, may waive the 30-day requirement on a case-by-case basis.

(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules relating to the approval and notification process.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 646, Sec. 9(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Amended by:

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

Browse this collection