Tex. Transp. Code § 172.052 · Subchapter B. CREATION
CREATION OF DISTRICT BY MORE THAN ONE COUNTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioners courts of two or more counties that are a contiguous area may by concurrent order:
(1) create a district; or
(2) provide for the re-creation of a district by the addition of one or more counties.
(b) The district consists of the territory of each county whose commissioners court adopts the concurrent order.
(c) Each concurrent order must:
(1) contain identical provisions for creation or re-creation;
(2) be adopted at the time of the creation or re-creation;
(3) declare the boundaries of the district as the boundaries of the counties included;
(4) designate the district's name; and
(5) designate the number of directors, which may not be less than four, and the manner of the directors' appointment by a commissioners court.
(d) The commissioners court of each county included in a district by order may provide for the district's dissolution if each commissioners court determines that the dissolution will not impair an obligation of any contract of the district. The dissolution order is effective only on the creation or re-creation of another district in which each county included in the dissolving district is included.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 1540), Sec. 2.04, eff. April 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.172.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 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Transp. Code § 172.052. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Transportation Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 172.055AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS AFTER CREATION BY CERTAIN DISTRICTS.Printed as Section 172.052
- Tex. Transp. Code § 172.102TERMS.Printed as Section 172.052
- Tex. Transp. Code § 172.211OTHER POWERS OF COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND NAVIGATION DISTRICT.Printed as Section 172.052
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