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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Property Code § 92.062: LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER.

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  1. PROPERTY CODE
  2. TITLE 8. LANDLORD AND TENANT
  3. CHAPTER 92. RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES
  4. SUBCHAPTER B. REPAIR OR CLOSING OF LEASEHOLD

If a rental premises is, as a practical matter, totally unusable for residential purposes as a result of a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, flood, extended freeze, or widespread windstorm, a landlord that allows a tenant to move to another rental unit owned by the landlord may not require the tenant to execute a lease for a term longer than the term remaining on the tenant's lease on the date the premises was rendered unusable as a result of the natural disaster.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 475 (S.B. 1120), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:37Z. Source file · JSON

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