LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF RESIDENTS
Known as the Community Homes for Persons With Disabilities Act
The act spans §§ 123–123 (10 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Deep East Texas Regional Mental Health & Mental Retardation Services v. Kinnear (1994)
Most recently applied in City of Friendswood v. Registered Nurse Care Home (March 1998)
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 12.01(a), eff
(a) Not more than six persons with disabilities and two supervisors may reside in a community home at the same time.
(b) The limitation on the number of persons with disabilities applies regardless of the legal relationship of those persons to one another.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.