Tex. Water Code § 62.296 · Subchapter H. ANNEXATION
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The election shall be held not less than 20 nor more than 30 days from the day of the election order and after notice is given.
(b) Notice of the election shall be published once a week for 20 days immediately preceding the election in some newspaper published in the territory proposed to be annexed. If no newspaper is published in the territory, notice shall be posted in three public places inside the territory for at least 20 days immediately preceding the election.
(c) The notice:
(1) shall give the time and place or places for holding the election;
(2) shall give the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed; and
(3) may contain the substance of the order of the commission ordering the election.
(d) The secretary of the commission shall have the notice published or posted.
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.62.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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