Tex. Const. art. VII, § 16 · Article 7. EDUCATION
COUNTY TAXATION OF CERTAIN UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LANDS.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
All land mentioned in Sections 11, 12 and 15 of Article VII, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, now belonging to the University of Texas shall be subject to† taxation for county purposes to the same extent as lands privately owned; provided they shall be rendered for taxation upon values fixed by the State Tax Board; and providing that the State shall remit annually to each of the counties in which said lands are located an amount equal to the tax imposed upon said land for county purposes.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Added Nov. 4, 1930.)
Publisher's footnote
† The language of this provision is identical to the language of the official legislative measure that originally proposed the provision. A digital image of the original text of the official enrolled measure can be found here.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.7.htm
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- sha256 89d9992f06cb138dd180c2f3b6128eb1f6391b80b7603b8d550badca60914ed6
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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