Tex. Water Code § 55.039 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION TO ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 59, DISTRICT
RECORDATION OF ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) After the commissioners court makes and enters in its minutes the order creating the district or an order changing the name of a district, the court shall file a certified copy of the order accompanied by a plat defining the district boundaries with the county clerk.
(b) The county clerk shall have the certified copy of the order and the plat recorded and indexed in the deed records of the county.
(c) Recordation of the order and plat has the same effect, as to notice, as the recordation of a deed.
(d) The district shall pay the cost of making and recording the certified copy of the order and the plat.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 432, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 187, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.55.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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