Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 363.062 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT AND TEMPORARY BOARD
FINANCING CREATION OF DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), the costs of creating a district by a county to be composed of the whole county shall be allocated as follows:
(1) the county shall pay 40 percent;
(2) the municipality having the largest population in the county shall pay 40 percent; and
(3) the municipality having the second largest population in the county shall pay 20 percent.
(b) The county and the two municipalities may contract for a division of the costs of creating a district that is different from the division of costs described by Subsection (a).
(c) If a district is proposed for only a part of the county, the county shall pay the entire cost of creating the district.
(d) A municipality creating a district shall pay the entire cost of creating the district.
(e) If a district is created, the district shall reimburse each political subdivision that paid creation costs for the actual expenses the subdivision incurred in the creation of the district.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 23.03(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.363.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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