Tex. Property Code § 92.170
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 92.170, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 92.170. EFFECT ON OTHER LANDLORD DUTIES AND TENANT REMEDIES.
Official statutory text
The duties of a landlord and the remedies of a tenant under this subchapter are in lieu of common law, other statutory law, and local ordinances relating to a residential landlord's duty to install, change, rekey, repair, or replace security devices and a tenant's remedies for the landlord's failure to install, change, rekey, repair, or replace security devices, except that a municipal ordinance adopted before January 1, 1993, may require installation of security devices at the landlord's expense by an earlier date than a date required by this subchapter. This subchapter does not affect a duty of a landlord or a remedy of a tenant under Subchapter B regarding habitability.
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