Tex. Transp. Code § 54.056 · Subchapter B. MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF PORT IMPROVEMENTS AND FACILITIES; BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOARD ACT OR PROCEEDING PRESUMED VALID.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A governmental act or proceeding of a board is conclusively presumed, as of the date it occurred, to be valid and to have occurred in accordance with all applicable law if:
(1) the third anniversary of the effective date of the act or proceeding has expired; and
(2) a lawsuit to annul or invalidate the act or proceeding has not been filed on or before that third anniversary.
(b) This section does not apply to:
(1) an act or proceeding that was void at the time it occurred;
(2) an act or proceeding that, under a statute of this state or the United States, was a misdemeanor or felony at the time the act or proceeding occurred; or
(3) a matter that on the effective date of this section:
(A) is involved in litigation if the litigation ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final judgment of a court; or
(B) has been held invalid by a final judgment of a court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 169 (S.B. 1836), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.54.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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