Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 7.007 · Chapter 7. TYPE B GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
ORDER OF INCORPORATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Within 20 days after the date the county judge receives the returns of an incorporation election, the judge shall, if a majority of the votes cast are for incorporation, make an entry in the records of the commissioners court that the community is incorporated. The judge shall include the boundaries of the municipality in the entry. The incorporation of the community as a municipality is effective on the date the entry is made.
(b) A certified copy of the entry and a plat of the municipality shall be recorded in the deed records of the county in which the municipality is located.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.7.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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