Texas § LG.315.004 - SPECIAL ASSESSMENT TO PAY FOR PARKS
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§ LG.315.004. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT TO PAY FOR PARKS
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT TO PAY FOR PARKS: MUNICIPALITY WITH 12,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS. (a) A municipality with 12,000 or more inhabitants that condemns land for laying out, establishing, or enlarging a park, parkway, or pleasure ground may provide by ordinance that the cost of the land and improvements be paid for, wholly or partly to an extent not exceeding the special benefits received, by the property owners who own property in the vicinity of and are benefitted by the park, parkway, or pleasure ground. (b) The municipality may fix liens against the benefitted property to the extent of the special benefits. Neither an assessment nor a lien is effective against homestead property. (c) The manner of assessing and collecting from the property owner is the same as provided by law in connection with the opening or widening of streets. Assessments may be made payable in not more than 16 installments, the last maturing in not more than 15 years, and may bear interest at a rate not exceeding eight percent a year. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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