Sec. 211.058. ACTION. (a) A person adversely affected or aggrieved by a municipality's violation of this subchapter or a housing organization may bring an action against the municipality or an officer or employee of the municipality in the officer's or employee's official capacity for relief described by Subsection (c). (b) A claimant must bring an action under this section in a county in which the real property that is the subject of the action is wholly or partly located. (c) In an action brought under this section, a court may: (1) enter a declaratory judgment under Chapter 37 , Civil Practice and Remedies Code; (2) issue a writ of mandamus compelling a defendant officer or employee to comply with this subchapter; and (3) issue an injunction preventing the defendant from violating this subchapter. (d) A court shall award reasonable attorney's fees and court costs incurred in bringing an action under this section to a prevailing claimant. (e) A claimant in an action brought under this section may elect in the claimant's petition to designate the Fifteenth Court of Appeals as the exclusive intermediate appellate court over an appeal or original proceeding arising from the action.
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