Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 351.125 · Subchapter G. JAIL DISTRICT
GRANTING OR DENYING PETITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Within 10 days after the date of the conclusion of the hearing, the commissioners court holding the hearing shall grant the petition pending approval by the commissioners courts of all other proposed cooperating counties in the district, if any, if it appears from the testimony and evidence presented at the hearing that:
(1) organization of the district is feasible and practicable;
(2) there is a public necessity or need for the district; and
(3) the creation of the district would further the public safety and welfare.
(b) If the commissioners court is unable to make any one of the findings required by Subsection (a), the commissioners court shall refuse to grant the petition's request for creation of the district.
(c) If a commissioners court of a county in the proposed district refuses to grant the petition's request for creation of the district, the district may not be created.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 74(a), eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.351.htm
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- 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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