Tex. Water Code § 58.024 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
SINGLE-COUNTY DISTRICT: HEARING IN DISTRICT COURT; PROCEDURE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district court, either in term time or in vacation time, shall schedule the appeal for hearing with all reasonable dispatch.
(b) In the proceeding in the district court, formal pleadings shall not be required but, with the court's permission, may be filed.
(c) The trial and decision shall be by the court without the intervention of a jury, and the hearing shall be conducted as though the jurisdiction of the district court were original jurisdiction.
(d) The following matters may be contested in the district court:
(1) all matters that were or might have been presented in the commissioners court;
(2) the validity of the Act under which the district is proposed to be created; and
(3) the regularity of all previous proceedings.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537, ch. 627, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1977. Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 2646, ch. 707, Sec. 4(47), eff. Aug. 31, 1981.
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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- 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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