Tex. Water Code § 58.022 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
SINGLE-COUNTY DISTRICT; APPEAL FROM ORDER OF COMMISSIONERS COURT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the commissioners court grants or refuses to grant the petition, any person who signed the petition or any person who appears and protests the petition and offers testimony against the creation of the district may appeal from the order of the court by giving notice of appeal in open court at the time of the entry of the order, which shall be entered on the court's docket, and by filing with the clerk of the commissioners court within five days a good and sufficient appeal bond in the amount of $2,500.
(b) The appeal bond shall be approved by the clerk of the commissioners court payable to the county judge conditioned for the prosecution of the appeal with effect and the payment of all costs incurred with the appeal in the event the final decree of the court is against the appellant.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537, ch. 627, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1977.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.58.htm
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Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Water Code § 58.022. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Water Code
- Tex. Water Code § 58.023SINGLE-COUNTY DISTRICT: RECORD ON APPEAL; NOTICE OF APPEAL.Printed as Section 58.022
- Tex. Water Code § 58.025SINGLE-COUNTY DISTRICT: JUDGMENT OF DISTRICT COURT; APPEAL.Printed as Section 58.022
- Tex. Water Code § 58.031MULTICOUNTY DISTRICT: APPEAL FROM COMMISSION DECISION.Printed as Sections 58.022-58.025
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