Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 9012.052 · Subchapter B. DISTRICT TERRITORY AND EXCLUSIONS FROM DISTRICT TERRITORY
EXCLUDING TERRITORY FROM THE DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may exclude territory from the district before voting any bonds or taxes in and for the district.
(b) The board shall give notice of its intention to hold a hearing on the question of excluding territory from the district. The notice must:
(1) specify the date and place of the hearing; and
(2) describe by metes and bounds the territory proposed to be excluded.
(c) The notice must be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in Harris County. The first publication of the notice must be at least 10 days before the date set for the hearing.
(d) The board by order may exclude the territory from the district if at the hearing the board finds that the proposed exclusion of territory is advantageous to the district and to the territory to be excluded. In the order, the board shall also redefine the boundaries of the district to embrace all land not excluded. The territory is no longer a part of the district.
(e) The order authorizing the exclusion must be recorded in the board minutes.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.12, 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/SD/htm/SD.9012.htm
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