Texas Property Code 92.062 – Lease Term After Natural Disaster
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Texas Property Code 92.062
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
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.