Tex. Prop. Code § 21.016 · Subchapter B. PROCEDURE
NOTICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each party in an eminent domain proceeding is entitled to written notice issued by the special commissioners informing the party of the time and place of the hearing.
(b) Notice of the hearing must be served on a party not later than the 20th day before the day set for the hearing. A person competent to testify may serve the notice.
(c) A person who serves a notice shall return the original notice to the special commissioners on or before the day set for hearing. The person shall write a return of service on the notice that states how and when it was served.
(d) Notice may be served:
(1) by delivering a copy of the notice to the party or to the party's agent or attorney;
(2) if the property being condemned belongs to a deceased's estate or to a minor or other legally disabled person and the person or estate has a legal representative, by delivering a copy of the notice to the legal representative; or
(3) if the property being condemned belongs to a nonresident of this state and there has been no personal service on the owner, if the identity or the residence of the property owner is unknown, or if the property owner avoids service of notice by hiding, by publication in the same manner as service of citation by publication in other civil cases in the district courts or county courts at law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3500, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 81 (S.B. 18), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.21.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
Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Prop. Code § 21.016. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Transportation Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 203.067POSSESSION OF PROPERTY FOR TOLL PROJECT.Printed as Section 21.016(d), Property Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 314.022NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION.Printed as Section 21.016(a), Property Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 366.167POSSESSION OF PROPERTY.Printed as Section 21.016(d), Property Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 370.165POSSESSION OF PROPERTY.Printed as Section 21.016(d), Property Code
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