Tex. Water Code § 51.757 · Subchapter O. ADDING AND EXCLUDING TERRITORY AND CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS
EXCLUDING LAND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) After considering all engineering data and other evidence presented to it, if the board makes the findings provided in Section 51.756 of this code and determines that it would be in the best interest of the district to exclude the land, the board shall enter an order excluding all land meeting the conditions and shall redefine the boundaries of the original district in order to embrace all land not excluded. In the event the land to be excluded contains water or wastewater customers of the district, such customers shall remain customers of the district, and owners of lots to which district water and wastewater facilities have already been extended shall also be allowed to connect to the district's system and shall be customers of the district.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, an order excluding land pursuant to a petition signed by the owner or owners of the land to be excluded takes effect on the date the board enters the order.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, an order excluding land pursuant to a petition signed by less than all of the owners of the land to be excluded takes effect:
(1) if the district does not receive a timely petition under Section 51.758 of this code on the day following the deadline for submission of a petition; or
(2) if the district receives timely petition under Section 51.758 of this code and the exclusion is ratified at an election held for that purpose.
(d) Before an order excluding land under Sections 51.754 through 51.758 of this code becomes effective, all taxes levied and assessed by the district on the land to be excluded shall be fully paid.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 280, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1989.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.51.htm
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Water Code
- Tex. Water Code § 51.754EXCLUSION OF LAND FROM DISTRICT WITHOUT INDEBTEDNESS.Printed as Sections 51.754 through 51.758
- Tex. Water Code § 51.756FINDINGS BY THE BOARD.Printed as Section 51.756
- Tex. Water Code § 51.758NOTICE OF CERTAIN EXCLUSIONS; PETITION FOR RATIFICATION ELECTION.Printed as Section 51.758 | Sections 51.754 through 51.758
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