Section 252.050 - Lease-Purchase or Installment Purchase of Real Property(a) This section applies only to a lease-purchase or installment purchase of real property financed by the issuance of certificates of participation.(b) The governing body of a municipality may not make an agreement under which the municipality is a lessee in a lease-purchase of real property or is a purchaser in an installment purchase of real property unless the governing body first obtains an appraisal by a qualified appraiser who is not an employee of the municipality. The purchase price may not exceed the fair market value of the real property, as shown by the appraisal.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 252.050
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 10, Sec. 2, eff. 10/18/1989.