Tex. Transp. Code § 253.009 · Chapter 253. COUNTY IMPROVEMENT OF SUBDIVISION ROADS
LIEN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An assessment is secured by a lien against the real property of the assessed property owner.
(b) The lien is effective on the date written notice of the assessment is filed for record in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the property is located.
(c) The written notice must be in recordable form and contain the:
(1) amount of the assessment;
(2) legal description of the property; and
(3) name and address of each property owner.
(d) An assessment lien under this chapter is inferior only to a tax lien or mortgage lien recorded before the effective date of the assessment lien.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.253.htm
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- Composed by
- 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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