FILING OF PETITION AND NOTICE OF HEARING.

(a) If the petition is in proper form, the county judge may receive the petition and shall file the petition with the county clerk.

(b) At the next regular or special session of the commissioners court held after the petition is filed with the county clerk, the commissioners court shall set a place, date, and time for the hearing to consider the petition.

(c) The county clerk shall give notice of the hearing. The notice must state:

(1) that creation of a district is proposed;

(2) that the district is to be created and is to operate under Article III, Section 48-e, of the Texas Constitution, as proposed by S.J.R. No. 27, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, and adopted by the voters at an election held November 3, 1987;

(3) the name of the proposed district;

(4) the district's boundaries as stated in the petition;

(5) the place, date, and time of the hearing; and

(6) that each person who has an interest in the creation of the district may attend the hearing and present grounds for or against creation of the district.

(d) The county clerk shall retain a copy of the notice and shall deliver sufficient copies of the notice to the sheriff for posting and publication as prescribed by Subsection (e).

(e) Not later than the 21st day before the date on which the hearing will be held, the sheriff shall post one copy of the notice at the courthouse door. The sheriff shall also have the notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed district once a week for two consecutive weeks. The first publication must occur not later than the 21st day before the date on which the hearing will be held.

(f) The return of each officer executing notice must:

(1) be endorsed or attached to a copy of the notice;

(2) show the execution of the notice;

(3) specify each date on which the notice was posted or published; and

(4) include a printed copy of the published notice.