Texas Property Code Title 7, Chapter 81 - Condominiums Created Before Adoption Of Uniform Condominium Act

SUBCHAPTER A PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO CONDOMINIUMS

• Texas Section 81.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Condominium Act. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3616, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
• Texas Section 81.0011 - Applicability
  (a) This chapter applies only to a condominium regime created before January 1, 1994. A condominium regime created on or after January 1, 1994, is...
• Texas Section 81.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Apartment" means an enclosed space, regardless of whether it is designed for residential or other use, that consists of one or...

SUBCHAPTER B CREATION, ALTERATION, AND TERMINATION OF CONDOMINIUMS

• Texas Section 81.003 - Applicability Of Local Ordinances And Regulations
  (a) A planning or zoning commission of a county or municipality may adopt regulations governing condominium regimes that supplement this chapter. (b) A local zoning...
• Texas Section 81.101 - Creation Of Condominium
  An owner or developer of an existing or a planned building establishes a condominium regime by recording a master deed, master lease, or declaration under...
• Texas Section 81.102 - Contents Of Declaration, Master Deed, Or Master Lease
  (a) A declaration, master deed, or master lease for a condominium must contain: (1) the legal description of the real property dedicated to the condominium...
• Texas Section 81.103 - Public Records
  (a) Each county clerk shall maintain suitable records called "Condominium Records" in which the clerk shall record master deeds, master leases, and declarations for condominiums....
• Texas Section 81.104 - Apartment Ownership
  (a) An owner of an apartment in a condominium regime owns it exclusively, and the owner may possess, convey, or encumber the apartment, or subject...
• Texas Section 81.105 - Apartment Boundaries
  (a) The boundaries of an apartment in a condominium regime are the interior surfaces of the apartment's perimeter walls, floors, and ceilings, and the exterior...
• Texas Section 81.106 - Apartment Deeds
  A deed to an apartment in a condominium regime must: (1) include by reference the plats in the declaration; (2) state the encumbrances against the...
• Texas Section 81.107 - Interests In Common Elements
  An owner of an apartment in a condominium regime shares ownership of the regime's common elements with the other apartment owners. An apartment owner may...
• Texas Section 81.108 - Partition Of Common Elements
  (a) The ownership of the general and the limited common elements of a condominium regime may not be judicially partitioned or divided while they are...
• Texas Section 81.109 - Conveyance Of Common Elements
  An apartment in a condominium regime and the undivided interest of an apartment owner in the common elements of the regime that are attributable to...
• Texas Section 81.110 - Termination Of Condominium Regime
  (a) By unanimous agreement, or if the declaration provides for termination by agreement of the owners, by agreement of the holders of at least 67...
• Texas Section 81.111 - Amendment Of Condominium Declaration
  After a condominium declaration is recorded with a county clerk, the declaration may not be amended except at a meeting of the apartment owners at...

SUBCHAPTER C CONDOMINIUM MANAGEMENT

• Texas Section 81.112 - Restriction Relating To Club Membership
  (a) A provision of a declaration, master deed, master lease, or other recorded contract that requires owners of apartments in a condominium regime to maintain...
• Texas Section 81.201 - Authority Of Council Of Owners
  (a) The council of owners of a condominium regime may adopt and amend bylaws. (b) A council of owners of a condominium regime may institute...
• Texas Section 81.202 - Bylaws
  The bylaws of a condominium regime govern the administration of the buildings that comprise the regime. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3621, ch. 576, Sec....
• Texas Section 81.203 - Voting Majority
  For the purposes of this chapter, the apartment owners who own at least 51 percent of the interests in a condominium regime, as determined under...
• Texas Section 81.204 - Maintenance Of Condominium
  (a) An apartment owner in a condominium regime is responsible for the apartment owner's pro rata share of: (1) the expenses to administer the condominium...
• Texas Section 81.205 - Insurance
  (a) By resolution of a majority of the council of owners or in the manner provided or required by the declaration or bylaws, the council...
• Texas Section 81.206 - Disposition Of Insurance Proceeds
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a building in a condominium regime is damaged by a casualty against which it is insured, the...
• Texas Section 81.207 - Insufficient Insurance
  (a) If under Section 81.206 a damaged building in a condominium regime must be reconstructed but insurance proceeds are insufficient to pay for the cost...
• Texas Section 81.208 - Assessments Due On Conveyance
  If an apartment owner conveys the apartment and assessments against the apartment are unpaid, the apartment owner shall pay the past due assessments out of...
• Texas Section 81.209 - Condominium Records
  (a) The administrator or board of administration of a condominium regime or a person appointed by the bylaws of the regime shall keep a detailed...
• Texas Section 81.210 - Loans As Eligible Investments
  (a) If a fiduciary or a bank, savings and loan association, trust company, life insurance company, or other lending institution is authorized to make real...

Last modified: September 28, 2016