MISCELLANEOUS POWERS
Known as the Housing Authorities Law
The act spans §§ 392.001 to 392.104 (67 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Tooke v. City of Mexia (2006)
Most recently applied in Abilene Housing Authority v. Gene Duke Builders, Inc. (June 2007)
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An authority may:
(1) sue and be sued;
(2) have a seal and change the seal at will;
(3) have perpetual succession;
(4) make and execute contracts and other instruments that are necessary or convenient to the exercise of the authority's powers; and
(5) make, amend, and repeal bylaws and rules that are consistent with this chapter to implement the authority's powers and purposes.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.