Texas Property Code
§ 94.255 — INVALID COMPLAINTS
PR § 94.255Title 8. LANDLORD AND TENANT · Ch. 94. MANUFACTURED HOME TENANCIES · Art. F. PROHIBITED ACTS
Statute text
View on source(a)If a tenant files or prosecutes a suit for retaliatory action based on a complaint asserted under Section 94.251(a)(3), and a government building or housing inspector or utility company representative visits the manufactured home community and determines in writing that a violation of a building or housing code does not exist or that a utility problem does not exist, there is a rebuttable presumption that the tenant acted in bad faith.
(b)If a tenant files or prosecutes a suit under this subchapter in bad faith, the landlord may recover possession of the leased premises and may recover from the tenant a civil penalty of one month's rent plus $500, court costs, and reasonable attorney's fees. If the tenant's rent payment to the landlord is subsidized in whole or in part by a governmental entity, the civil penalty granted under this subsection shall reflect the fair market rent of the leased premises plus $500.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 801, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2002.