Tex. Water Code § 56.806 · Subchapter K. CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS
CANVASS; RESULT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board of each district proposed to be consolidated shall canvass the returns of the election held in that district. The board of each district shall publish the results for that district.
(b) If the majority of votes cast in each district favor the consolidation, the districts become one district and are governed as one district.
(c) If the proposition does not carry, another election for consolidation may not be held in any district that was proposed to be consolidated for at least two years after the results of the election are declared.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 222, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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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- 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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