Texas Local Government Code Title 7, Chapter 232 - County Regulation Of Subdivisions

SUBCHAPTER A SUBDIVISION PLATTING REQUIREMENTS IN GENERAL

• Texas Section 232.001 - Plat Required
  (a) The owner of a tract of land located outside the limits of a municipality must have a plat of the subdivision prepared if the...
• Texas Section 232.0013 - Chapter-wide Provision Relating To Regulation Of Plats And Subdivisions In Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
  The authority of a county under this chapter relating to the regulation of plats or subdivisions in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality is subject...
• Texas Section 232.0015 - Exceptions To Plat Requirement
  (a) To determine whether specific divisions of land are required to be platted, a county may define and classify the divisions. A county need not...
• Texas Section 232.002 - Approval By County Required
  (a) The commissioners court of the county in which the land is located must approve, by an order entered in the minutes of the court,...
• Texas Section 232.0021 - Plat Application Fee
  (a) The commissioners court may impose an application fee to cover the cost of the county's review of a subdivision plat and inspection of street,...
• Texas Section 232.0025 - Timely Approval Of Plats
  (a) The commissioners court of a county or a person designated by the commissioners court shall issue a written list of the documentation and other...
• Texas Section 232.003 - Subdivision Requirements
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Texas Section 232.0031 - Standard For Roads In Subdivision
  A county may not impose under Section 232.003 a higher standard for streets or roads in a subdivision than the county imposes on itself for...
• Texas Section 232.0032 - Additional Requirements: Use Of Groundwater
  (a) If a person submits a plat for the subdivision of a tract of land for which the source of the water supply intended for...
• Texas Section 232.0033 - Additional Requirements: Future Transportation Corridors
  (a) This section applies to each county in the state. The requirements provided by this section are in addition to the other requirements of this...
• Texas Section 232.0034 - Additional Requirements: Access By Emergency Vehicles
  (a) This section applies only to a residential subdivision that is subdivided into 1,000 or more lots in the unincorporated area of a county. (b)...
• Texas Section 232.004 - Bond Requirements
  If the commissioners court requires the owner of the tract to execute a bond, the owner must do so before subdividing the tract unless an...
• Texas Section 232.0045 - Financial Guarantee In Lieu Of Bond
  (a) In lieu of the bond an owner may deposit cash, a letter of credit issued by a federally insured financial institution, or other acceptable...
• Texas Section 232.0048 - Conflict Of Interest; Penalty
  (a) In this section, "subdivided tract" means a tract of land, as a whole, that is subdivided. The term does not mean an individual lot...
• Texas Section 232.005 - Enforcement In General; Penalty
  (a) At the request of the commissioners court, the county attorney or other prosecuting attorney for the county may file an action in a court...
• Texas Section 232.006 - Exceptions For Populous Counties Or Contiguous Counties
  (a) This section applies to a county: (1) that has a population of more than 3.3 million or is contiguous with a county that has...
• Texas Section 232.007 - Manufactured Home Rental Communities
  (a) In this section: (1) "Manufactured home rental community" means a plot or tract of land that is separated into two or more spaces or...
• Texas Section 232.008 - Cancellation Of Subdivision
  (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities, as determined under Chapter 42. (b) A person...
• Texas Section 232.0083 - Cancellation Of Certain Subdivision Plats If Existing Plat Obsolete
  (a) This section applies only to a subdivision for which: (1) a plat has been filed for 75 years or more; (2) the most recent...
• Texas Section 232.0085 - Cancellation Of Certain Subdivisions If Land Remains Undeveloped
  (a) This section applies only to real property located: (1) outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities, as determined under Chapter 42; and (2)...
• Texas Section 232.009 - Revision Of Plat
  (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities with a population of 1.5 million or more,...
• Texas Section 232.0095 - Alternative Procedures For Plat Revision
  (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction, as determined under Chapter 42, of municipalities with a...
• Texas Section 232.010 - Exception To Plat Requirement: County Determination
  A commissioners court of the county may allow conveyance of portions of one or more previously platted lots by metes and bounds description without revising...

SUBCHAPTER B SUBDIVISION PLATTING REQUIREMENTS IN COUNTY NEAR INTERNATIONAL BORDER

• Texas Section 232.011 - Amending Plat
  (a) The commissioners court may approve and issue an amending plat, if the amending plat is signed by the applicants and filed for one or...
• Texas Section 232.021 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Water Development Board. (2) "Common promotional plan" means any plan or scheme of operation undertaken by a...
• Texas Section 232.022 - Applicability
  (a) This subchapter applies only to: (1) a county any part of which is located within 50 miles of an international border; or (2) a...
• Texas Section 232.023 - Plat Required
  (a) A subdivider of land must have a plat of the subdivision prepared if at least one of the lots of the subdivision is five...
• Texas Section 232.024 - Approval By County Required
  (a) A plat filed under Section 232.023 is not valid unless the commissioners court of the county in which the land is located approves the...
• Texas Section 232.025 - Subdivision Requirements
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a notice is published in English and Spanish in a...
• Texas Section 232.026 - Water And Sewer Service Extension
  (a) The commissioners court may extend, beyond the date specified on the plat or on the document attached to the plat, the date by which...
• Texas Section 232.027 - Bond Requirements
  (a) Unless a person has completed the installation of all water and sewer service facilities required by this subchapter on the date that person applies...
• Texas Section 232.028 - Certification Regarding Compliance With Plat Requirements
  (a) On the approval of a plat by the commissioners court, the commissioners court shall issue to the person applying for the approval a certificate...
• Texas Section 232.029 - Connection Of Utilities In Counties Within 50 Miles Of International Border
  (a) This section applies only to a county defined under Section 232.022(a)(1). (a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (c) or Section 232.037(c), a utility may...
• Texas Section 232.0291 - Connection Of Utilities In Certain Counties Within 100 Miles Of International Border
  (a) This section applies only to a county defined under Section 232.022(a)(2). (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or Section 232.037(c), a utility may...
• Texas Section 232.030 - Subdivision Regulation; County Authority
  (a) The commissioners court for each county shall adopt and enforce the model rules developed under Section 16.343, Water Code. (b) Except as provided by...
• Texas Section 232.0305 - County Inspector
  (a) The commissioners court may impose a fee on a subdivider of property under this subchapter for an inspection of the property to ensure compliance...
• Texas Section 232.031 - Requirements Prior To Sale Or Lease
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a subdivider may not sell or lease land in a subdivision first platted or replatted after July 1,...
• Texas Section 232.0315 - Notice Of Water And Wastewater Requirements By Counties
  (a) This section applies only to a county that sells: (1) under Section 34.01, Tax Code, real property presumed to be for residential use under...
• Texas Section 232.032 - Services Provided By Subdivider
  A subdivider having an approved plat for a subdivision shall: (1) furnish a certified letter from the utility provider stating that water is available to...
• Texas Section 232.033 - Advertising Standards And Other Requirements Before Sale; Offense
  (a) Brochures, publications, and advertising of any form relating to subdivided land: (1) may not contain any misrepresentation; and (2) except for a for-sale sign...
• Texas Section 232.034 - Conflict Of Interest; Penalty
  (a) In this section, "subdivided tract" means a tract of land, as a whole, that is subdivided into tracts or lots. The term does not...
• Texas Section 232.035 - Civil Penalties
  (a) A subdivider or an agent of a subdivider may not cause, suffer, allow, or permit a lot to be sold in a subdivision if...
• Texas Section 232.036 - Criminal Penalties
  (a) A subdivider commits an offense if the subdivider knowingly fails to file a plat required by this subchapter. An offense under this subsection is...
• Texas Section 232.037 - Enforcement
  (a) The attorney general, or the district attorney, criminal district attorney, county attorney with felony responsibilities, or county attorney of the county may take any...
• Texas Section 232.038 - Suit By Private Person In Economically Distressed Area
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person who has purchased or is purchasing a lot after July 1, 1995, in a subdivision for...
• Texas Section 232.039 - Cancellation Of Subdivision
  (a) A subdivider of land may apply to the commissioners court to cancel all or part of the subdivision in the manner provided by Section...
• Texas Section 232.040 - Replatting
  (a) A subdivision plat must accurately reflect the subdivision as it develops. If there is any change, either by the intentional act of the subdivider...
• Texas Section 232.041 - Revision Of Plat
  (a) A person who has subdivided land that is subject to the subdivision controls of the county in which the land is located may apply...
• Texas Section 232.042 - Variances From Replatting Requirements
  (a) On request of a subdivider or resident purchaser, the commissioners court may grant a delay or a variance from compliance with Section 232.040 as...
• Texas Section 232.043 - Variances From Platting Requirements
  (a) On the request of a subdivider who created an unplatted subdivision or a resident purchaser of a lot in the subdivision, the commissioners court...

SUBCHAPTER C SUBDIVISION PLATTING REQUIREMENTS IN CERTAIN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED COUNTIES

• Texas Section 232.044 - Amending Plat
  The commissioners court may approve and issue an amending plat under this subchapter in the same manner, for the same purposes, and subject to the...
• Texas Section 232.071 - Applicability
  This subchapter applies only to the subdivision of land located: (1) outside the corporate limits of a municipality; and (2) in a county: (A) in...
• Texas Section 232.072 - Plat Required
  (a) The owner of a tract of land that divides the tract in any manner that creates at least one lot of five acres or...
• Texas Section 232.073 - Approval By County Required
  (a) A plat filed under Section 232.072 is not valid unless the commissioners court of the county in which the land is located approves the...
• Texas Section 232.074 - Bond Requirements
  (a) Unless a person has completed the installation of all water and sewer service facilities required by this subchapter on the date that person applies...
• Texas Section 232.075 - Water And Sewer Service Extension
  (a) The commissioners court may extend, beyond the date specified on the plat or on the document attached to the plat, the date by which...
• Texas Section 232.076 - Certification Regarding Compliance With Plat Requirements
  (a) On the approval of a plat by the commissioners court, the commissioners court shall issue to the person applying for the approval a certificate...
• Texas Section 232.077 - Connection Of Utilities In Certain Counties
  (a) This section applies only to a tract of land for which a plat is required under this subchapter. (b) An entity described by Subsection...
• Texas Section 232.0775 - County Inspector
  (a) The commissioners court may impose a fee on a subdivider of property under this subchapter for an inspection of the property to ensure compliance...
• Texas Section 232.078 - Conflict Of Interest; Penalty
  (a) In this section, "subdivided tract" means a tract of land, as a whole, that is subdivided into tracts or lots. The term does not...
• Texas Section 232.079 - Civil Penalties
  (a) A subdivider or an agent of a subdivider may not cause, suffer, allow, or permit a lot to be sold in a subdivision if...
• Texas Section 232.080 - Enforcement
  (a) The attorney general, or the district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney, may take any action necessary in a court of competent jurisdiction...

SUBCHAPTER D COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION

• Texas Section 232.081 - Amending Plat
  The commissioners court may approve and issue an amending plat under this subchapter in the same manner, for the same purposes, and subject to the...
• Texas Section 232.091 - Applicability
  This subchapter applies only to a county: (1) authorized to establish a planning commission under Subchapter B or C; and (2) in which the commissioners...
• Texas Section 232.092 - Establishment And Abolition Of Planning Commission
  (a) To promote the general public welfare, the commissioners court of a county by order may: (1) establish a planning commission under this section; and...
• Texas Section 232.093 - Appointment Of Members Of Planning Commission
  (a) The commissioners court may appoint a planning commission consisting of five members. Members are appointed for staggered terms of two years. (b) A person...
• Texas Section 232.094 - Financial Disclosure
  (a) The commissioners court of a county may require each member of the planning commission to file a financial disclosure report in the same manner...
• Texas Section 232.095 - Officers, Quorum, And Meetings
  (a) At the first meeting of each calendar year, the planning commission shall elect a presiding officer and assistant presiding officer. The presiding officer presides...
• Texas Section 232.096 - Timely Approval Of Plats
  (a) The planning commission shall issue a written list of the documentation and other information that must be submitted with a plat application. The documentation...

SUBCHAPTER E INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING PROVISIONS IN CERTAIN URBAN COUNTIES

• Texas Section 232.097 - Reasons For Disapproval Of Plat Required
  If the planning commission refuses to approve a plat, the planning commission shall provide to the person requesting approval a notice specifying the reason for...
• Texas Section 232.101 - Rules
  (a) By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general...
• Texas Section 232.102 - Major Thoroughfare Plan
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Texas Section 232.103 - Lot Frontages
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Texas Section 232.104 - Set-backs
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Texas Section 232.105 - Developer Participation Contracts
  (a) Without complying with the competitive sealed bidding procedure of Chapter 262, a commissioners court may make a contract with a developer of a subdivision...
• Texas Section 232.106 - Connection Of Utilities
  By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Texas Section 232.107 - Provisions Cumulative
  The authorities under this subchapter are cumulative of and in addition to the authorities granted under this chapter and all other laws to counties to...
• Texas Section 232.108 - Plat Requirements
  (a) The commissioners court, in addition to having the authority to adopt rules under Section 232.101 and other authority granted by this chapter, may impose...
• Texas Section 232.109 - Fire Suppression System
  In a subdivision that is not served by fire hydrants as part of a centralized water system certified by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality...

Last modified: September 28, 2016