Tex. Water Code § 36.012 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT
COMPOSITION OF DISTRICT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A district may include all or part of one or more counties, cities, districts, or other political subdivisions.
(b) A district may not include territory located in more than one county except on a majority vote of the voters residing within the territory in each county sought to be included in the district at an election called for that purpose.
(c) The boundaries of a district must be coterminous with or inside the boundaries of a management area or a priority groundwater management area.
(d) A district may consist of separate bodies of land separated by land not included in the district.
(e) A majority of the voters in a segregated area must approve the creation of the district before that area may be included in the district.
(f) This section does not apply to districts created under Section 36.0151.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 933, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1010, Sec. 4.22, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 966, Sec. 2.33, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.36.htm
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