Texas Local Government Code - Section 7.007. Order Of Incorporation

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§ 7.007. ORDER OF INCORPORATION.  (a) Within 20 days 
after the date the county judge receives the returns of an 
incorporation election, the judge shall, if a majority of the votes 
cast are for incorporation, make an entry in the records of the 
commissioners court that the community is incorporated.  The judge 
shall include the boundaries of the municipality in the entry.  The 
incorporation of the community as a municipality is effective on 
the date the entry is made.
	(b)  A certified copy of the entry and a plat of the 
municipality shall be recorded in the deed records of the county in 
which the municipality is located.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.                    

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