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§ 92.062 — LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER

PR § 92.062Title 8. LANDLORD AND TENANT · Ch. 92. RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES · Art. B. REPAIR OR CLOSING OF LEASEHOLD

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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.

Legislative history

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