Texas Government Code Title 10, Chapter 2175 - Surplus And Salvage Property
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 2175.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Assistance organization" means: (A) a nonprofit organization that provides educational, health, or human services or assistance to homeless individuals; (B) a...
- Texas Section 2175.002 - Administration Of Chapter
The commission is responsible for the disposal of surplus and salvage property of the state. The commission's surplus and salvage property division shall administer this...
SUBCHAPTER B COMMISSION POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 2175.004 - Civil Air Patrol; Volunteer Fire Departments
For purposes of this chapter: (1) the Civil Air Patrol, Texas Wing, is considered a state agency having the authority to acquire surplus or salvage...
- Texas Section 2175.061 - Rules, Forms, And Procedures
(a) The commission shall establish and maintain procedures for the transfer, sale, or disposal of surplus and salvage property as prescribed by law. (b) Subject...
- Texas Section 2175.062 - Mailing List; List Of Prospective Buyers
The commission shall maintain: (1) a mailing list, which it shall renew annually, of assistance organizations and individuals responsible for purchasing for political subdivisions who...
- Texas Section 2175.063 - Maximum Return From Disposition Of Surplus Or Salvage Property
(a) The commission shall attempt to realize the maximum benefit to the state in selling or disposing of surplus and salvage property. (b) The commission...
- Texas Section 2175.064 - Cooperation In Evaluation And Analysis
(a) The commission shall cooperate with state agencies in an ongoing effort to evaluate surplus and salvage property to minimize loss resulting from accumulations of...
SUBCHAPTER D DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS OR SALVAGE PROPERTY
- Texas Section 2175.065 - Delegation Of Authority To State Agency
(a) The commission may authorize a state agency to dispose of surplus or salvage property if the agency demonstrates to the commission its ability to...
- Texas Section 2175.181 - Applicability
(a) This subchapter applies to a state agency delegated the authority to dispose of surplus or salvage property under Section 2175.065. (b) This subchapter does...
- Texas Section 2175.182 - State Agency Transfer Of Property
(a) A state agency that determines it has surplus or salvage property shall inform the commission of the property's kind, number, location, condition, original cost...
- Texas Section 2175.1825 - Advertising On Commission Website
(a) After a state agency informs the commission that it has surplus or salvage property, the commission shall advertise the property's kind, number, location, and...
- Texas Section 2175.183 - Commission Notice To Other Entities
The commission shall inform other state agencies, political subdivisions, and assistance organizations of the commission's website that lists surplus property that is available for transfer....
- Texas Section 2175.184 - Transfer
(a) During the 10 business days after the date the property is posted on the commission's website, a state agency, political subdivision, or assistance organization...
- Texas Section 2175.185 - Notice Of Transfer To Comptroller; Adjustment Of Appropriations And Property Accounting Records; Removal From Website
(a) If property is transferred to a state agency under Section 2175.184, the participating agencies shall report the transaction to the comptroller. (b) On receiving...
- Texas Section 2175.186 - Disposition By Competitive Bidding, Auction, Or Direct Sale
(a) If a disposition of a state agency's surplus property is not made under Section 2175.184, the commission shall sell the property by competitive bid,...
- Texas Section 2175.187 - Disposition By Direct Sale To Public
(a) If the commission determines that selling the property by competitive bid or auction, including a sale using an Internet auction site, would not maximize...
- Texas Section 2175.188 - Purchaser's Fee
(a) For property that is sold under Section 2175.186 or 2175.187, the commission shall collect a fee from the purchaser. (b) The commission shall set...
- Texas Section 2175.189 - Advertisement Of Sale
If the value of an item or a lot of property to be sold is estimated to be more than $25,000, the commission shall advertise...
- Texas Section 2175.190 - Reporting Sale; Property Accounting Adjustment
(a) On the sale by the commission of surplus or salvage property, the commission shall report the property sold and the sale price to the...
- Texas Section 2175.191 - Proceeds Of Sale
(a) Proceeds from the sale of surplus or salvage property, less the cost of advertising the sale, the cost of selling the surplus or salvage...
- Texas Section 2175.192 - Purchaser's Title
A purchaser of surplus property at a sale conducted under Section 2175.186 or 2175.187 obtains good title to the property if the purchaser has in...
SUBCHAPTER E DESTRUCTION OR DONATION OF SURPLUS OR SALVAGE PROPERTY
- Texas Section 2175.193 - Contracts For Destruction Of Property
The commission shall contract for the disposal of property under Subchapter E in a manner that maximizes value to the state. Added by Acts 2001,...
- Texas Section 2175.241 - Destruction Or Donation Of Surplus Or Salvage Property
(a) If the commission cannot otherwise sell or dispose of property in accordance with this chapter, has determined that the property has no resale value,...
SUBCHAPTER F EXCEPTIONS
- Texas Section 2175.242 - Removal Of Destroyed Or Donated Property From State Property Accounting Records
(a) On destruction or donation of property under this subchapter, the comptroller may remove the property from the state property accounting records. (b) Authorization by...
- Texas Section 2175.301 - Surplus Property Of Legislature
(a) This chapter does not apply to disposition of surplus property by either house of the legislature under a disposition system provided by rules of...
- Texas Section 2175.302 - Exception For Eleemosynary Institutions
Except as provided by Section 2175.905(b), this chapter does not apply to the disposition of surplus or salvage property by a state eleemosynary institution. Added...
- Texas Section 2175.303 - Exception For Certain Products
This chapter does not apply to disposition of: (1) a product or by-product of research, forestry, agriculture, livestock, or an industrial enterprise; or (2) certain...
- Texas Section 2175.304 - Exception For Institutions Of Higher Education
(a) This chapter does not apply to the disposition of surplus or salvage property of a university system or of an institution or agency of...
- Texas Section 2175.305 - Exception For Secretary Of State
This chapter does not apply to the disposition of surplus computer equipment by the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall give preference to...
- Texas Section 2175.306 - Exception For Certain Agencies
This chapter does not apply to the disposition of surplus computer equipment by a state agency involved in the areas of health, human services, or...
- Texas Section 2175.307 - Exception For Office Of Court Administration
This chapter does not apply to the disposition of surplus computer equipment by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System. The office...
SUBCHAPTER G FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY
- Texas Section 2175.308 - Exception For Certain Property Of Department Of Public Safety
(a) Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of this chapter, if the commission determines that this state's efforts to secure this state's international border and combat transnational...
- Texas Section 2175.361 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Federal act" means the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. Section 541 et seq.), as amended, or...
- Texas Section 2175.362 - Designated Agency; Separate And Independent Operation Of Federal Surplus Property Program
(a) The commission is the designated state agency under 40 U.S.C. Section 549 and any other federal law providing for the disposal of federal surplus...
- Texas Section 2175.363 - Acquisition, Warehousing, And Distribution Of Federal Property
(a) The commission may acquire and warehouse federal property allocated to the commission under the federal act and distribute the property to an entity or...
- Texas Section 2175.364 - Commission Assistance In Procurement And Use Of Property
The commission may: (1) disseminate information and assist a potential applicant regarding the availability of federal real property; (2) assist in the processing of an...
- Texas Section 2175.365 - State Plan Of Operation; Compliance With Minimum Federal Standards
The commission shall: (1) file a state plan of operation that complies with federal law and operate in accordance with the plan; (2) take necessary...
- Texas Section 2175.366 - Administrative Functions; Compliance With Federal Requirements
The commission may: (1) make the necessary certifications and undertake necessary action, including an investigation; (2) make expenditures or reports that may be required by...
- Texas Section 2175.367 - Contracts
The commission may enter into an agreement, including: (1) a cooperative agreement with a federal agency under 40 U.S.C. Section 549 or any other federal...
- Texas Section 2175.368 - Acquisition Or Improvement Of Property; Rent Payments
The commission may: (1) acquire and hold title or make capital improvements to federal real property in accordance with Section 2175.369; or (2) make an...
- Texas Section 2175.369 - Charges
(a) The commission may collect a service charge for the commission's acquisition, warehousing, distribution, or transfer of federal property. (b) The commission may not collect...
- Texas Section 2175.370 - Federal Surplus Property Service Charge Fund
(a) The commission shall deposit a charge collected under Section 2175.369 in the state treasury to the credit of the federal surplus property service charge...
- Texas Section 2175.371 - Advisory Boards And Committees
The commission may appoint advisory boards and committees necessary and suitable to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1,...
SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 2175.372 - Personnel
(a) The commission may employ, compensate, and prescribe the duties of personnel, other than members of advisory boards and committees, necessary and suitable to administer...
- Texas Section 2175.901 - Purchase Of Chairs By Certain State Officers And Agency Heads
(a) Notwithstanding other law, on vacating an office or terminating employment, an elected or appointed state officer or an executive head of a state agency...
- Texas Section 2175.902 - Mandatory Paper Recycling Program
(a) The commission shall establish a mandatory recycling program for a state agency that occupies a building under its control. By rule, the commission shall:...
- Texas Section 2175.903 - Property Used As Trade-in
A state agency may offer surplus or salvage property as a trade-in on new property of the same general type if the exchange is in...
- Texas Section 2175.904 - Disposal Of Gambling Equipment
(a) The commission shall establish a program for the sale of gambling equipment received from a municipality, from a commissioners court under Section 263.152(a)(5), Local...
- Texas Section 2175.905 - Disposition Of Data Processing Equipment
(a) If a disposition of a state agency's surplus or salvage data processing equipment is not made under Section 2175.184, the state agency shall transfer...
- Texas Section 2175.906 - Abolished Agencies
On abolition of a state agency, in accordance with Chapter 325, the commission shall take custody of all of the agency's property or other assets...
- Texas Section 2175.907 - Disposal Of Computer Equipment By Charitable Organization
(a) In this section: (1) "Computer equipment" includes computers, telecommunications devices and systems, automated information systems, and peripheral devices and hardware that are necessary to...
- Texas Section 2175.908 - Sale Or Transfer Of Law Enforcement Vehicle
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the commission or another state agency, including an agency delegated the authority to dispose of surplus or salvage...
Last modified: September 28, 2016