Texas Local Government Code Title 3, Chapter 71 - Creation Of Counties

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 71.001 - Corporate And Political Body
  A county is a corporate and political body. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

SUBCHAPTER B ELECTION FOR DETACHMENT OR ATTACHMENT OF COUNTY TERRITORY

• Texas Section 71.002 - Place For Holding Terms Of Courts In New County Before County Seat Is Designated
  Until the county seat of a new county is established, the terms of the district, county, and commissioners courts of the county shall be held...
• Texas Section 71.011 - Application And Election
  (a) A part of a county may not be detached from one county and attached to another county unless the proposition for the change is...
• Texas Section 71.012 - Election Results
  (a) The returns of each election shall be made to the county judge of the county in which the election is held. (b) The county...

SUBCHAPTER C ORGANIZATION OF COUNTIES

• Texas Section 71.013 - Subsequent Election
  If the election is held in a county and the proposition to detach part of the county is defeated at the election, a subsequent election...
• Texas Section 71.021 - Attachment Of Counties
  (a) Until a new county is legally organized, the territory of the new county remains subject to the county from which it is taken. (b)...
• Texas Section 71.022 - Establishment Of Precincts
  (a) If a new county is established, the commissioners court of the county from which the largest part of the territory of the new county...
• Texas Section 71.023 - Election Of County Officers
  (a) Before one month before the date of the next scheduled general election after a new county is established, the county judge of the county...
• Texas Section 71.024 - Organization Of Attached County
  On the written petition of at least 75 qualified voters who are residents of a disorganized county, the commissioners court of the county to which...

SUBCHAPTER D APPORTIONMENT OF COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS

• Texas Section 71.025 - Delivery To New Officers
  The officers of a county from which a new county has been created or to which a newly organized county has been attached and all...
• Texas Section 71.031 - Liability Of New County
  (a) A new county is liable for a proportionate share of the indebtedness of the county from which it was created. (b) The new county's...
• Texas Section 71.032 - Suit To Enforce Payment Of Liability
  (a) A county from which a new county has been created may sue to recover the new county's share of the original county's indebtedness. The...
• Texas Section 71.033 - Tax To Pay Indebtedness
  (a) If the original county recovers in a suit brought under Section 71.032(a), the court that renders the judgment shall order the commissioners court of...
• Texas Section 71.034 - Liability Of Attached Territory
  (a) If a part of a county is detached from a county and attached to another county, the attached territory remains liable for its proportionate...
• Texas Section 71.035 - County Bonds Held By School Fund
  (a) The comptroller of public accounts shall apportion between a county and a new county created from territory detached from the original county the bonds,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016