Tex. Water Code § 56.751 · Subchapter J. ALTERNATE PROCEDURE FOR ANNEXATION BY EXISTING DISTRICT
PETITION FOR ANNEXATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The landowners of a defined area of territory not included in a district may file with the secretary of the board a petition requesting an election on the inclusion of the territory in a district. The petition must:
(1) be signed by registered voters residing in the territory equal in number to at least five percent of the number of votes received in the territory to be included by all candidates in the most recent gubernatorial general election; and
(2) describe by metes and bounds the territory to be included in the district.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 958, Sec. 2, eff. June 16, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.56.htm
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- sha256 53a4c135ed59760d4323eba24a0eadaced210ca8b361c5d6ffb934281e49606d
- 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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