Tex. Water Code § 61.025 · Subchapter B. CREATION OF DISTRICT
PETITION TO CREATE DISTRICT IN TWO COUNTIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the proposed district is located in two counties, the petition shall be presented to the commissioners court of the county which includes the greater part of the district, and this county shall be the county of jurisdiction with relation to all matters concerning the district.
(b) The petition shall be signed by 25 resident property taxpayers in each county in the district or if there are fewer than 75 resident property taxpayers in either of the counties, then by one-third of the resident property taxpayers in that county.
(c) The name of the district shall include the name of the county which has jurisdiction.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.61.htm
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- sha256 44a43d2615e97fcc71c047b2e8bf1e8de32b21a446ca8bf5805902fe43ccbbee
- 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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