Tex. Water Code § 51.826 · Subchapter P. DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT
PENALTY AND ATTORNEY'S FEE.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A penalty of 10 percent of the unpaid amount of taxes shall accrue immediately on default of payment of taxes after the 60 days.
(b) An attorney's fee of 10 percent of the unpaid amount of the taxes is due and payable immediately on institution of suit for collection and foreclosure.
(c) The penalty and attorney's fee shall be recovered in the suit and shall constitute an addition to the taxes and shall be secured by the tax lien.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 385, 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
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- sha256 1cf5c2b1fb25a63beb9ab6d640c866b7fb32b129cf97cdb360e5d05a5867b066
- 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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