The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Travis County, Texas (all cities and municipalities within the county listed in Exhibit A) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code ch. 418 and § 418.108(g), as recited
- Issued
- 2021-04-30 Apr. 30, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-01
- End
- 2021-08-01 (stated term; clarified by Order 2021-06, Ex. MET-AUS-066; succeeded by Order 2021-07, Ex. MET-AUS-059) (read as 2021-08-01)
- In force
- May 1, 2021 to Aug. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- landlords and property owners in Travis County
- residential tenants paying $2,475 or less and tenants providing the CDC declaration
- commercial tenants
- Functions reached
- PM property management: notices to vacate conditioned; lockouts prohibited through August 1, 2021
- CM commercial leasing (commercial tenants covered)
- CB tenants
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
SECTION 2. Effective May 1, 2021 and continuing through May 31, 2021 unless terminated or modified by a subsequent order, the County Judge deems it in the public interest to PROHIBIT, except as otherwise provided in this section, the issuance of Notices to Vacate to a: (i) residential tenant who fails to pay rent and the amount of the tenant's rent is $2,475 or less per month, (ii) a residential tenant who fails to pay rent and provides the landlord the CDC Declaration..., or (iii) a commercial tenant as defined in Section 5.... SECTION 3. (A) Except as provided in Subsection (B), effective June 1, 2021 and continuing through August 1, 2021 unless terminated or modified by a subsequent order, the County Judge deems it in the public interest to PROHIBIT, except as otherwise provided in this [section, the issuance of Notices to Vacate... subject to the landlord's exhaustion of Rental Assistance Remedies and stated arrears thresholds]... SECTION 4. Effective May 1, 2021 and continuing through August 1, 2021, unless terminated or modified by a subsequent Order, the County Judge deems it in the public interest to PROHIBIT the removal of property or exclusion of a tenant by a property owner in the manners [described in the Texas Property Code].
Enforcement
Sheriff's Office, Fire Marshal's Office and peace officers authorized (§ 6); misdemeanor fine (as in the chain; penalty text not separately extracted)
Notes
In force on the first day of 2021 Q3 (§§ 3-4 to August 1, 2021). Recites the CDC order's extension to June 30, 2021 and the $25 billion federal rental assistance program.
Retrieval noteOrdered April 30, 2021; recording no. 2021096626).