Texas Property Code 21.102 – Notice to Previous Property Owner Required
Terms Used In Texas Property Code 21.102
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Not later than the 180th day after the date an entity that acquired a real property interest through eminent domain determines that the former property owner is entitled to repurchase the property under § 21.101, the entity shall send by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the property owner or the owner’s heirs, successors, or assigns a notice containing:
(1) an identification, which is not required to be a legal description, of the property that was acquired;
(2) an identification of the public use for which the property had been acquired and a statement that:
(A) the public use was canceled before the property was used for the public use;
(B) no actual progress was made toward the public use; or
(C) the property became unnecessary for the public use, or a substantially similar public use, before the 10th anniversary of the date of acquisition; and
(3) a description of the person‘s right under this subchapter to repurchase the property.