Tex. Property Code § 92.062
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 92.062, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 92.062. LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER.
Official statutory text
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.
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