Tex. Water Code § 51.014 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
CONTENTS OF PETITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The petition shall include:
(1) the name of the district;
(2) the area and boundaries of the district;
(3) the provision of the Texas Constitution under which the district is to be organized;
(4) the purpose or purposes of the district;
(5) a statement of the general nature of the work to be done and the necessity and feasibility of the project, with reasonable detail and definiteness to assist the court or commission passing on the petition in understanding the purpose, utility, feasibility, and need; and
(6) a statement of the estimated cost of the project based on the information available to the person filing the petition at the time of filing.
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 9aa8cb28ece6b4e5c00c9f68c159e2e3cdb770a5702b213b4c75241ff7d4a1a1
- 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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