Just cause eviction rules in Irving, TX — sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances — list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Irving has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001 — a month-to-month tenancy may be ended by either party on 30 days' written notice without stating a reason. Fixed-term leases may be terminated for breach under Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 24.
Texas state law does not require a landlord to articulate just cause to end a month-to-month tenancy. Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001 says either party may terminate on notice and the tenancy ends on the later of the date in the notice or one month after notice is given. For fixed-term leases the landlord must wait until expiration unless the tenant breaches, then issue a three-day notice to vacate under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005 before suing in justice court. Tex. Prop. Code § 92.331 prohibits retaliatory evictions within six months of a tenant exercising a protected right.
There is no Irving city forum for enforcing just-cause grounds. A tenant may raise retaliation as a defense in the justice-court forcible-detainer suit and may sue under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.333 for one month's rent plus $500, actual damages, court costs, and attorney fees. Wrongful lockouts trigger one month's rent plus $1,000 under § 92.0081.
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