Tex. Water Code § 53.019 · Subchapter B. CREATING AND DIVIDING A DISTRICT
HEARING POWERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioners court shall have jurisdiction to determine all issues pertaining to the sufficiency of the petition and shall allow any interested person to appear before it in person or by attorney to offer testimony relative to the sufficiency of the petition.
(b) The commissioners court may adjourn the hearing from day to day as is necessary to complete the hearing.
(c) The commissioners court may make all orders necessary to determine the matters before it.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 398, 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.53.htm
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- 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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