Sec. 315.004. 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.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 10 - Parks and Other Recreational and Cultural Resources
Subtitle A - Municipal Parks and Other Recreational and Cultural Resources
Section 315.002. Establishment of Municipal Streets Through Certain Parks
Section 315.003. Improvement of Public Grounds by Type a General-Law Municipality
Section 315.004. Special Assessment to Pay for Parks: Municipality With 12,000 or More Inhabitants
Section 315.005. Municipal Library in Type a General-Law Municipality
Section 315.006. Liability for Adversely Affecting Historic Structure or Property