Tex. Water Code § 51.012 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION 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, including any town, village, or municipal corporation, and may include any other political subdivision of the state or any defined district.
(b) The areas composing a district do not have to be contiguous but may consist of separate bodies of land separated by land not included in the district; however, each segregated area, before it may be included in the district, must cast a majority vote in favor of the creation of the district.
(c) No district may include territory located in more than one county except by a majority vote of the electors residing within the territory in each county sought to be included in the district.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.51.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 b70da2ef16ea1a51018171a4a4b919e6571c7c474b0fe69e826ebb7ea2c23678
- 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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