Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 571.005 · Subchapter A. AUTHORITY OF COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY BORDERING GULF
CESSION OF USE AND CONTROL OF STATE LAND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The state cedes to a county or municipality that uses this subchapter the right to the use and control of as much of the land and sea bottom below high tide that the commissioners court or municipal authority considers necessary for the purposes prescribed by this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Renumbered from Local Government Code, Section 421.005 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.76(c)(1), eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.571.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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