A Protective Covenant For Water In Houston
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A general-law municipality has no charter and is limited to the specific powers granted by the general laws of the state. Home-rule municipalities have a charter and derive the "full power of local self-government" from the Constitution of Texas.
Municipal Setting Designations An MSD is an official state designation given to property within a municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction that certifies that designated groundwater at the property is not used as potable water, and is prohibited from future use as potable water because that groundwater is ...
A Municipal Setting Designation (MSD) is type of deed restriction. It is an official designation given by the state to prevent people from drinking contaminated groundwater. The prohibition is in the form of an ordinance that is enforceable by the City and is filed in the county property records.
A Municipal Setting Designation (MSD) is an official state designation that certifies that a property's groundwater will never be used as potable (drinking) water. This designation is for small amounts of groundwater that do not have contact with people or wildlife and do not flow into deep aquifers.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality takes enforcement actions for violations of state regulations, which are required to be at least as stringent as EPA's regulations.
Municipal Management Districts or “Improvement Districts” or “MMDs” ("Management Districts") have been used in the Greater Houston Area since the 1980's as a means to allow commercial property owners to work together to supplement City and County services and improvements.
Texas law does not automatically give a property owners' association the right to impose fines. These powers must be granted by the association's governing documents.
To begin with, you look to the Texas Property Code, specifically chapters 201, 204, 211, 212, 210 and 205. These six chapters provide the much-needed procedures for extending, creating, modifying, and removing archaic deed restrictions that no longer provide the benefit that was originally intended.
Restrictive covenants) are enforceable in Texas. To be valid under Texas law, a covenant not to compete must be “ancillary to an otherwise enforceable agreement.” Then, the restrictions must be reasonable in scope.
You may be able to get around certain restrictions as long as you have pre-approval. (You might need approval from your neighbors, too.) Get consent: If there's not a governing body and the deed restriction is instead with a neighbor or another party, you'll need to get their consent for release from the agreement.
