Sec. 214.303. EMINENT DOMAIN AUTHORITY. A municipality may take a condominium through the use of eminent domain for the purpose of the elimination of urban blight if a tract or unit of real property on which the condominium sits presents the following conditions for at least one year after the date on which notice of the conditions is reasonably attempted to be provided to the property owner:
(1) all lawful occupation of or construction activity for the condominium has ceased;
(2) the property:
(A) contains uninhabitable, unsafe, and unsanitary units that are not fit for their intended use because the utilities, sewerage, plumbing, or heating or a similar service or facility of the units has been destroyed, removed, or rendered ineffective; or
(B) contained units described by Paragraph (A) that were demolished in accordance with a court order issued under Section 54.018, Local Government Code; and
(3) the property has been the location of substantiated and repeated illegal activity of which the property owner knew or should have known.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 693 (H.B. 364), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2011.
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