Sec. 7811.151. DESIGNATION OF REINVESTMENT ZONE. (a) The district by resolution may designate as a reinvestment zone an area or real or personal property in the taxing jurisdiction of the district that the board finds satisfies the requirements of Section 7811.152. The board must find that the proposed commercial-industrial or residential project or projects meet the criteria prescribed by Section 7811.152.

(b) The resolution must describe the boundaries of the zone and the eligibility of the zone for commercial-industrial or residential tax abatement.

(c) The area of a reinvestment zone designated for commercial-industrial or residential tax abatement may be included in an overlapping or coincidental commercial-industrial or residential zone established under Chapter 312, Tax Code.

(d) The district may not adopt a resolution designating an area as a reinvestment zone until the district has held a public hearing on the designation and has found that the improvements sought are feasible and practical and would be a benefit to the land to be included in the zone and to the district after the expiration of an agreement entered into under Section 7811.154 or 7811.155. At the hearing, interested persons are entitled to speak and present evidence for or against the designation. Not later than the seventh day before the date of the hearing, notice of the hearing must be:

(1) published in a newspaper having general circulation in the district; and

(2) delivered in writing to the presiding officer of the governing body of each taxing unit that includes in its boundaries real property that is to be included in the proposed reinvestment zone.

(e) A notice made under Subsection (d)(2) is presumed delivered when placed in the mail postage paid and properly addressed to the appropriate presiding officer. A notice properly addressed and sent by registered or certified mail for which a return receipt is received by the sender is considered to have been delivered to the addressee.

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 869 (H.B. 2803), Sec. 1.03, eff. April 1, 2019.