SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBCHAPTER B CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT
- Texas Section 58.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "District" means an irrigation district. (2) "Board" means the board of directors of a district. (3) "Director" means a member of...
- Texas Section 58.011 - Creation Of District
An irrigation district may be created under and subject to the authority, conditions, and restrictions of either Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution,...
- Texas Section 58.012 - Composition Of District
(a) A district may include all or part of one or more counties, including any town, village, or municipal corporation, and may include any other...
- Texas Section 58.013 - Petition
(a) A petition requesting creation of a district shall be signed by a majority of the persons who hold title to land in the proposed...
- Texas Section 58.014 - Contents Of Petition
The petition shall include: (1) the name of the district; (2) the area and boundaries of the district; (3) the provision of the Texas Constitution...
- Texas Section 58.015 - Place Of Filing; Recording
(a) The petition shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the district is located. If land in...
- Texas Section 58.016 - Board Or Commission To Consider Creation Of District
If the land to be included in a district is within one county, the creation of the district shall be considered and ordered by the...
- Texas Section 58.017 - Single-county District; Hearing
(a) If a petition is filed for the creation of a district within one county, the county judge shall issue an order setting the date...
- Texas Section 58.018 - Single-county District; Notice Of Hearing
(a) The notice of hearing on the petition shall include a statement of the nature and purpose of the district and the date, time, and...
- Texas Section 58.019 - Single-county District; Name
(a) A district located in one county may be named the ________ County Irrigation District Number ________ (insert the name of the county and proper...
- Texas Section 58.020 - Single-county District; Testimony At Hearing
(a) At the hearing on the petition, any person whose land is included in or would be affected by the creation of the district may...
- Texas Section 58.021 - Single-county District; Granting Or Refusing Petition
(a) The commissioners court or the commission shall grant the petition requesting the creation of a district if it appears at the hearing that: (1)...
- Texas Section 58.022 - Single-county District; Appeal From Order Of Commissioners Court
(a) If the commissioners court grants or refuses to grant the petition, any person who signed the petition or any person who appears and protests...
- Texas Section 58.023 - Single-county District: Record On Appeal; Notice Of Appeal
(a) On completion of an appeal as provided in Section 58.022 of this code, the clerk of the commissioners court shall, within 10 days, prepare...
- Texas Section 58.024 - Single-county District: Hearing In District Court; Procedure
(a) The district court, either in term time or in vacation time, shall schedule the appeal for hearing with all reasonable dispatch. (b) In the...
- Texas Section 58.025 - Single-county District: Judgment Of District Court; Appeal
(a) In the appeal, the district court shall apply to the determination its full powers to the end that substantial justice may be done. (b)...
- Texas Section 58.026 - Single-county District: Appointment Of Directors; Bond
(a) If the commissioners court grants a petition for creation of a district, it shall appoint five directors who shall serve until their successors are...
- Texas Section 58.027 - Multicounty District: Consideration By Commission
(a) The commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction and power to consider and determine all petitions for creation of a district that will include land or...
- Texas Section 58.028 - Multicounty District: Notice And Hearing On District Creation
When a petition is filed, the commission shall give notice of an application in the manner provided in Section 49.011 and may conduct a hearing...
- Texas Section 58.030 - Multicounty District: Consideration By Commission; Procedure
(a) The commission shall consider and determine on the issues a petition filed under Section 58.028. (b) The commission shall be governed by the provisions...
- Texas Section 58.031 - Multicounty District: Appeal From Commission Decision
(a) When the commission grants or refuses a petition, any person who comes within the requirements specified in Sections 58.020-58.025 of this code may prosecute...
- Texas Section 58.032 - Multicounty District: Appointment Of Directors By Commission; Bond
(a) If the commission grants the petition for creation of the district, it shall appoint five directors, who shall serve until their successors are elected...
- Texas Section 58.035 - Inclusion Of City, Town, Or Municipal Corporation In District
(a) No city, town, or municipal corporation may be included within any district created under this chapter unless the proposition for the creation of the...
- Texas Section 58.036 - Confirmation Election In District Including Land In More Than One County
No district, the major portion of which is located in one county, may be organized to include land in another county unless the election held...
- Texas Section 58.037 - Exclusion Of Parts Of District; Dissolution
(a) If any portion of a district governed by Sections 58.035 and 58.036 of this code votes against the creation of the district and the...
- Texas Section 58.038 - Conversion Of Certain Districts Into Districts Operating Under This Chapter
(a) Any water improvement district or water control and improvement district which furnishes water for irrigation and does not furnish treated water or sewer services...
- Texas Section 58.039 - Conversion Of District; Notice
(a) Notice of the adoption of a resolution under Section 58.038 of this code shall be given by publishing the resolution in a newspaper with...
- Texas Section 58.040 - Conversion Of District; Findings
(a) If, on a hearing, the governing body of the district finds that conversion of the district into one operating under this chapter would serve...
- Texas Section 58.041 - Effect Of Conversion
A district that converts into a district operating under this chapter shall: (1) be constituted an irrigation district operating under and governed by this chapter;...
SUBCHAPTER C ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 58.042 - Reservation Of Certain Powers For Converted Districts
(a) Any water improvement district or water control and improvement district, after conversion under Section 58.038 of this code, may continue to exercise all necessary...
- Texas Section 58.071 - Board Of Directors
The governing body of a district is the board of directors, which shall consist of five directors. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537,...
- Texas Section 58.072 - Qualifications
To be qualified for election as a director, a person must be a resident of the state, be the owner of record of fee simple...
- Texas Section 58.0731 - Election Of Directors From Precincts
A district that elected one director from each of five precincts before it converted to a district operating under this chapter shall continue to elect...
- Texas Section 58.084 - District Tax Assessor And Collector
The board may appoint one person to the office of tax assessor and collector, or it may order an election to fill that office. Added...
SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 58.089 - Bonds Of Officers Of A District Acting As Fiscal Agent Or Collecting Money For The United States
(a) If a district is appointed fiscal agent for the United States or if a district is authorized to make collections of money for the...
- Texas Section 58.121 - Purposes Of District
(a) Irrigation districts operating under this chapter are limited purpose districts established primarily to deliver untreated water for irrigation and to provide for the drainage...
- Texas Section 58.122 - Powers Of District
The district has the functions, powers, authority, rights, and duties which will permit the accomplishment of the purposes for which it was created, including the...
- Texas Section 58.125 - Construction Of Improvements
A district may construct all works and improvements necessary: (1) for the irrigation of land in the district; (2) for the drainage of land in...
- Texas Section 58.126 - Purchase Of Machinery And Supplies
The board may purchase machinery, materials, and supplies needed in the construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of district improvements. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 58.127 - Adopting Rules
A district may adopt and make known reasonable rules to: (1) prevent waste or the unauthorized use of water; and (2) regulate residence, hunting, fishing,...
- Texas Section 58.128 - Effect Of Rules
After the required publication, rules adopted by the district under Section 58.127 of this code shall be recognized by the courts as if they were...
- Texas Section 58.129 - Publication Of Rules
(a) The board shall publish once a week for two consecutive weeks a substantive statement of the rules and the penalty for their violation in...
- Texas Section 58.130 - Effective Date Of Rules
The penalty for violation of a rule is not effective and enforceable until five days after the publication of the notice. Five days after the...
- Texas Section 58.133 - Constructing Bridges And Culverts Across And Over County And Public Roads
The district shall build necessary bridges and culverts across and over district canals, laterals, and ditches which cross county or public roads. Funds of the...
- Texas Section 58.134 - Constructing Culverts And Bridges Across And Under Railroad Tracks, Roadways, And Interurban Or Street Railways
(a) The district, at its own expense, may build necessary bridges and culverts across or under any railroad tracks or roadways of any railroad or...
- Texas Section 58.136 - Power To Contract
The district may enter into a contract for the use by another of its water, facilities, or service, either inside or outside the district, except...
- Texas Section 58.150 - Transactions In District Names Under Joint Ownership And Construction Contract
All bids, bonds, contracts, and other transactions made under a joint ownership and construction contract may be made in the names of the districts which...
- Texas Section 58.153 - Contract With The United States
(a) The board may enter into a contract or other obligation with the United States for the investigation, construction, extension, operation, and maintenance of any...
- Texas Section 58.154 - Construction Charges Under A Contract With The United States
The construction charges under a contract with the United States may include the cost of drainage and flood-control works necessary to control floods or to...
- Texas Section 58.155 - Election To Approve A Contract With The United States
(a) The electors of the district shall vote to approve every contract involving the payment of construction charges to the United States. The provisions of...
- Texas Section 58.156 - Conveying Property To The United States
A district may convey any property to the United States necessary for the construction, operation, or maintenance of federal reclamation works used or to be...
- Texas Section 58.157 - Consent Of United States To Alter District's Boundaries
Until all money has been paid by the district which is due to the United States under a contract relating to a federal reclamation project,...
- Texas Section 58.158 - Taxes Levied By District Under Contract With The United States
(a) A district that enters into a contract with the United States shall levy annually sufficient taxes to provide payment of all installments required by...
- Texas Section 58.159 - Assessments For Contracts With The United States
The board shall levy annually sufficient assessments to collect the money required to pay all of the district's obligations in full when due regardless of...
- Texas Section 58.160 - Duration Of Annual Levies For Contracts With The United States
The board shall continue annual levies for payment of construction charges each year against each tract of land in the district even though construction charges...
- Texas Section 58.161 - Superiority Of Lien To Secure Contract With The United States
The lien against district land created by a contract with the United States shall be superior to the lien created by any district bonds approved...
- Texas Section 58.162 - District's Authority To Solicit Cooperation, Donations, And Contributions From Other Agencies
A district organized under the provisions of this chapter may solicit cooperation, donations and contributions from: (1) the United States, the state or nation; (2)...
- Texas Section 58.163 - Expense Of Procuring Cooperation And Contributions From Other Agencies
A district may incur reasonable expense to procure cooperation under Section 58.162 of this code in adding to the area of the district or with...
- Texas Section 58.164 - Authority Of Contributor
(a) Any water improvement district, water control and improvement district, levee improvement district, irrigation district, county, city, town, or other political subdivision of the state...
- Texas Section 58.165 - Issuance Of Bonds By Contributor
(a) The contract may provide for the issuance of bonds by the contributor and for direct payment from the proceeds of the bonds to contractors...
- Texas Section 58.166 - Annual Tax By Contributor
(a) The contract for contribution may provide that instead of issuing bonds the contributor may levy, assess, and collect an annual tax in a specific...
- Texas Section 58.167 - Contributions From Unappropriated Or Available Funds Of Contributor
(a) If the proposed contributor has an unappropriated fund or a fund which is not required for actual use even though otherwise appropriated, the fund...
- Texas Section 58.168 - Liability On Contracts Of Acquired Irrigation System
If a district acquires an established irrigation system which has contracted to supply water to others and the holders of the contracts or the lands...
- Texas Section 58.170 - Covenants And Agreements Included In Lease
(a) The lease shall expressly state that the sums payable under the terms of the lease and the lease itself shall not constitute an indebtedness...
- Texas Section 58.171 - Revenue For Payment Of Lease Rental
(a) All money due the lessor under the lease shall be payable solely from the revenue derived by the district from the sale of water...
- Texas Section 58.172 - Receiver For Leased Irrigation System
(a) If the district defaults in the payments due under a lease, the lessor may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a receiver...
- Texas Section 58.173 - Joint Lease By Two Or More Districts
The boards of two or more districts may adopt resolutions to enter into a joint lease under the provisions of Section 58.169 of this code....
- Texas Section 58.174 - Authority To Acquire Irrigation System Subject To Mortgage
A district may acquire by gift, grant, or purchase any part of an irrigation system serving the district which is subject to a mortgage or...
- Texas Section 58.175 - Revenue For Payment Of Mortgage
(a) The board may determine conclusively by resolution whether the mortgage or encumbrance represents all or part of the cost of the acquired property and...
- Texas Section 58.176 - Election To Approve Revenue For Payment Of Mortgage
(a) If tax and bond revenue is pledged to pay amount due under the encumbrance, the district must hold an election and receive the approval...
- Texas Section 58.177 - Joint Acquisition Of Mortgaged System By Two Or More Districts
(a) Two or more districts jointly may acquire by gift, grant, or purchase any part of an irrigation system serving the districts subject to a...
- Texas Section 58.178 - Authority To Lease Facilities To Water Customers
(a) A district may lease to any person, firm, or corporation which is a bona fide water customer of the district any of its facilities...
- Texas Section 58.180 - Amendments To Water Rights
The board may apply to the commission to amend its water rights as provided by Section 11.122 of this code and the rules of the...
- Texas Section 58.181 - Suit To Protect Water Rights
The board may institute and maintain any suit or suits to protect the water supply or other rights of the district, to prevent any unlawful...
- Texas Section 58.182 - Transfer Of Water Right
If there is land in a district which has a water right from a source of supply acquired by the district but the land is...
- Texas Section 58.183 - Selling Waterpower Privileges
(a) The district may enter into a contract to sell waterpower privileges if power can be generated from water flowing from the district's reservoirs within...
- Texas Section 58.184 - Selling Surplus Water
The district may sell any surplus district water for use in irrigation or for domestic or commercial uses to any person who owns or uses...
- Texas Section 58.185 - Pumping Water To Another District
If the board considers it advisable, it may contract to pump for or supply another district any water in which the other district has a...
- Texas Section 58.186 - Obtaining Topographic Maps And Data
The Texas Water Development Board shall furnish to a district topographic maps and data concerning projects undertaken by the district. Added by Acts 1977, 65th...
SUBCHAPTER E ELECTION PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 58.190 - Sale Of Property Not Acquired To Carry Out The Plans Of The District
The board may sell property bid in by it at any sale under foreclosure of its tax lien or of its lien for charges or...
- Texas Section 58.221 - Landowner
In this subchapter, a reference to "landowner" refers to a single landowner who is the owner of record of fee simple title to a parcel...
- Texas Section 58.222 - Eligibility To Vote
Notwithstanding the Election Code and any other law, a landowner or the landowner's registered representative under this subchapter is entitled to one vote in an...
- Texas Section 58.223 - Eligibility Requirements
An individual landowner, or the landowner's registered representative, is eligible to vote only if the individual: (1) is 18 years of age or older; (2)...
- Texas Section 58.224 - Registration Required
(a) A landowner who elects to designate a representative to vote on behalf of the landowner must register the representative to vote on a form...
- Texas Section 58.225 - Voting By Representative
(a) A landowner may authorize an individual to vote in a district election as the landowner's representative as provided by this subchapter. (b) If ownership...
SUBCHAPTER G WATER CHARGES AND ASSESSMENTS
- Texas Section 58.226 - Liability For District Taxes And Debts
(a) A person who on January 1 of each year is not eligible under this subchapter to vote in an election held by a district...
- Texas Section 58.301 - Statement Estimating Water Requirements And Payment Of Charge
(a) If required by the board, each person who desires to receive irrigation water at any time during the year shall furnish the secretary of...
- Texas Section 58.302 - Contracts With Person Using Irrigation Water
(a) The board may require each person who desires to use irrigation water during the year to enter into a contract with the district which...
- Texas Section 58.303 - Authority To Determine Rules And Regulations
The board may adopt, alter, and rescind rules, and standing and temporary orders which do not conflict with the provisions of this subchapter and which...
- Texas Section 58.304 - Board's Estimate Of Maintenance And Operating Expenses
The board, on or as soon as practicable after a date fixed by standing order of the board, shall estimate the expenses of maintaining and...
- Texas Section 58.305 - Distribution Of Assessment
(a) The board by order shall allocate a portion of the estimated maintenance and operating expenses that shall be paid by assessment against all land...
- Texas Section 58.306 - Notice Of Assessments
(a) Public notice of all assessments imposed under Section 58.305(a) shall be given by posting printed notice of the assessment in at least one public...
- Texas Section 58.307 - Payment Of Assessments
(a) All assessments imposed under Section 58.305(a) shall be paid in installments at the times fixed by the board. (b) If a crop for which...
- Texas Section 58.308 - Collection Of Assessments By Tax Assessor And Collector
(a) Under the direction of the board, the assessor and collector, or other person designated by the board, shall collect all assessments imposed under Section...
- Texas Section 58.309 - Lien Against Crops
(a) The district shall have a first lien, superior to all other liens, against all crops grown on a tract of land in the district...
- Texas Section 58.310 - List Of Delinquent Assessments
Assessments imposed under Section 58.305(a) not paid when due shall become delinquent on the first day of the month following the date payment is due,...
- Texas Section 58.311 - Water Service Discontinued
(a) If a landowner fails or refuses to pay a water assessment or a person fails to pay a charge, fee, rental, or deposit imposed...
- Texas Section 58.312 - Suits For Delinquent Assessments
Suits for delinquent water assessments or other amounts owed to the district under this subchapter may be brought either in the county in which the...
- Texas Section 58.313 - Interest And Collection Fees
(a) All assessments imposed under Section 58.305(a) shall bear interest from the date payment is due at the rate of 15 percent a year. Assessments...
- Texas Section 58.314 - Rights Of The United States
(a) If the board enters into a contract with the United States, the remedies in this subchapter available to the district also shall apply to...
- Texas Section 58.315 - Surplus Assessments
If assessments made under this subchapter are more than sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the district, the balance shall be carried over to...
- Texas Section 58.316 - Insufficient Assessments
If the assessments made under this subchapter are not sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the district, the unpaid balance shall be assessed pro...
- Texas Section 58.318 - Charges For Maintenance Expenses
(a) If maintenance charges are based on the quantity of water used, a fixed minimum charge may be made on all land, water connections, or...
- Texas Section 58.319 - Charge To Cities And Towns
If a district supplies untreated water, the charge for the use of the water and the time and manner of payment shall be determined by...
- Texas Section 58.320 - Loans For Maintenance And Operating Expenses
The board may borrow money to pay maintenance and operating expenses at an interest rate of not more than 10 percent a year and may...
SUBCHAPTER H GENERAL FISCAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 58.321 - Water Service: Refused
The board may refuse water service to any person who refuses to pay the charges and assessments for water service or who fails or refuses...
- Texas Section 58.351 - Construction Fund
(a) The proceeds from the sale of bonds shall be deposited in the construction fund. (b) Money deposited in the construction fund shall be used...
- Texas Section 58.352 - Maintenance Fund
(a) The district shall have a maintenance fund which shall include money collected by assessment or other method for the maintenance, repair, and operation of...
SUBCHAPTER I BORROWING MONEY
- Texas Section 58.353 - Amortization And Emergency Fund
(a) The board shall have a competent engineer make an inspection and valuation of the physical property of the district which is subject to decay,...
- Texas Section 58.391 - Authority To Borrow Money
The board may declare that funds are not available to meet lawfully authorized obligations of the district, thereby creating an existing emergency, and may borrow...
- Texas Section 58.392 - Security For Loan
To secure the loan, the board may pledge up to 85 percent of any levied tax of the district which has not been collected by...
- Texas Section 58.393 - Maturity Date Of Loan
(a) If taxes are pledged to pay for the loan, the loan shall mature not later than the following April 1. (b) If preliminary or...
- Texas Section 58.394 - Loan Secured By Bonds
The amount of the loan may not be more than 25 percent of the district's unsold bonds and the par value of the bonds may...
- Texas Section 58.395 - Expenditure Of Loan Proceeds
No money obtained from a loan under Section 58.391 of this code may be spent for any purpose other than the purposes for which the...
- Texas Section 58.396 - Loans Accomplished By Sale Of District Bonds
If the loan is secured by the sale of district bonds, the district may enter into an obligation to be conditioned conformably with the usages...
- Texas Section 58.397 - Pledge Of Commercial Income
(a) The term "commercial income" means income other than revenue derived from taxation. (b) If required to do so, a district may pledge its existing...
- Texas Section 58.398 - Evidence Of Debt
To evidence loans which are not secured by the sale of bonds, the district may execute and deliver to the lender certificates of indebtedness, notes,...
SUBCHAPTER J ISSUANCE OF BONDS
- Texas Section 58.399 - Retiring Bonds
If bonds are impounded or pledged to secure a loan made to a district, as the loan is repaid a proportionate amount of the bonds...
- Texas Section 58.431 - Authority To Issue Bonds Of Districts Operating Under Article Iii, Section 52, Of The Texas Constitution
A district which is operating under Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, may issue bonds and lend its credit in an amount of...
- Texas Section 58.432 - Authority To Issue Bonds Of Districts Operating Under Article Xvi, Section 59, Of The Texas Constitution
A district operating under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, may incur debt evidenced by the issuance of bonds which is necessary to...
- Texas Section 58.433 - Amount Of Debt Limited By Constitution
No district may issue bonds or create indebtedness in an amount which is more than that authorized by the Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 1977,...
- Texas Section 58.434 - Issuance Of Preliminary Bonds
A district may issue preliminary bonds to create a fund to pay: (1) costs of organization; (2) costs of making surveys and investigations; (3) attorney's...
- Texas Section 58.435 - Election On Preliminary Bonds
(a) The proposition for the issuance of preliminary bonds shall be submitted to the electors of the district. (b) The election may be held at...
- Texas Section 58.436 - Conditions Of Preliminary Bonds
(a) After preliminary bonds have been authorized at an election, the board may order the issuance of the bonds in an amount which is not...
- Texas Section 58.437 - Tax To Pay Preliminary Bonds
At the time preliminary bonds are issued, a tax shall be levied to pay principal and interest as the bonds mature and to pay the...
- Texas Section 58.438 - Issuance Of Bonds
(a) After a district is created and has adopted plans for construction of a plant and improvements, it may issue bonds to pay for constructing...
- Texas Section 58.439 - Purposes For Issuance Of Bonds
The district may issue bonds to include: (1) the cost of organization of the district; (2) incidental expenses; (3) the cost of investigation and making...
- Texas Section 58.440 - Engineer's Report
(a) Before an election is held to authorize the issuance of bonds, an engineer's report, which includes the plans and improvements to be constructed together...
- Texas Section 58.441 - Election Order
(a) After the engineer's report is filed and approved, the board may order an election in the district to authorize the issuance of bonds. (b)...
- Texas Section 58.443 - Ballots
(a) The proposition to be voted on shall be the issuance of the total amount of bonds covered by the engineer's estimate plus additional estimates...
- Texas Section 58.444 - Vote At Election
(a) Bonds of a district operating under the provisions of Article III, Section 52, of the Texas Constitution, may be issued only with the approval...
- Texas Section 58.445 - Order To Issue Bonds Or Execute Contract
After the vote is canvassed and the results are declared to be favorable to the proposition, the board shall make and enter an order directing...
- Texas Section 58.446 - Record Of Bond Proceedings Submitted To Attorney General
(a) After a district issues bonds other than preliminary bonds, but before they are sold, the record showing all the proceedings in the creation of...
- Texas Section 58.447 - Approval And Registration Of Bonds
(a) After the bonds are issued and executed, they shall be submitted to the attorney general for approval. (b) If the attorney general finds that...
- Texas Section 58.448 - Validity Of Bonds
After the bonds are approved by the attorney general and registered by the comptroller, they shall be held to be valid, binding obligations of the...
- Texas Section 58.449 - Conditions Of Bonds
(a) The bonds may be issued to mature at the end of a term of years or to mature serially at any date which is...
- Texas Section 58.450 - Form Of Bonds
(a) The bonds shall be issued in the name of the district and shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with...
- Texas Section 58.453 - Validation Suit
(a) A district may file a suit to determine the validity of the creation of the district and the bonds. (b) If requested by the...
- Texas Section 58.454 - Effect Of Prior Registration
If bonds are approved by the attorney general and registered by the comptroller before a validation suit is filed, the filing of the suit cancels...
- Texas Section 58.455 - Procedure In Validation Suit
(a) A validation suit shall be brought by the district in the district court of any county in which all or part of the district...
- Texas Section 58.456 - Notice Of Validation Suit
(a) To obtain jurisdiction of all parties to the validation suit, a general notice shall be published. (b) The notice shall be published once a...
- Texas Section 58.457 - Duties Of Attorney General In Validation Suit
(a) The attorney general shall examine all the proceedings and shall require any further evidence and make any further examination which he considers advisable. (b)...
- Texas Section 58.458 - Judgment In Validation Suit
(a) After the trial of the validation suit, if the judgment of the court is adverse to the district on any issue, the district may...
- Texas Section 58.459 - Effect Of Validation Suit
(a) After a final judgment is rendered in the validation suit, the bonds or the contract with the United States shall be incontestable. (b) No...
- Texas Section 58.460 - Certified Copy Of Decree
(a) After the judgment of the district court is entered, the clerk of the court shall make a certified copy of the decree which shall...
- Texas Section 58.461 - Registration Of Bonds And Decree
On the presentation of the bonds together with a certified copy of the decree of the court, the comptroller shall register the bonds in a...
- Texas Section 58.462 - Sale Of Bonds
(a) After the bonds are issued by the district, the board shall sell the bonds on the best terms and for the best price possible....
- Texas Section 58.463 - Tax Levy
(a) At the time the bonds are voted, the board shall levy a tax on all property inside the district subject to district taxation in...
- Texas Section 58.464 - Adjustment Of Tax Levy
(a) The board may from time to time increase or diminish the tax to adjust it for the taxable values of the property subject to...
- Texas Section 58.466 - Interest And Sinking Fund
(a) The district shall have an interest and sinking fund which shall include all taxes collected under this chapter. (b) Money in the interest and...
- Texas Section 58.467 - Investment Of Sinking Fund
(a) The board may invest any portion of the sinking fund of the district in bonds of the United States, the state, any county or...
- Texas Section 58.468 - Refunding Bonds
(a) The district may refund any bonds issued by it by issuing new bonds. (b) Refunding bonds may be issued only if the old bonds...
- Texas Section 58.469 - Limitation Of Authority To Incur Debt And Issue Bonds
(a) For the benefit of purchasers or holders of bonds to be issued or sold, the board of a district operating under the provisions of...
- Texas Section 58.470 - Issuing Bonds In Excess Of Limitation
(a) A district may issue bonds in excess of a limitation made under Section 58.469 of this code only after the commission has approved the...
- Texas Section 58.471 - Modifications Or Improvements
(a) After bonds are issued or a contract is entered into with the United States, the board may give notice of an election to be...
- Texas Section 58.472 - Issuance Of Additional Bonds Or Creation Of Additional Indebtedness Under Certain Conditions
(a) A district may issue additional bonds or create additional indebtedness: (1) if works, improvements, and facilities constructed under a plan provided in Section 58.440...
- Texas Section 58.473 - Interim Bonds
After bonds, other than preliminary bonds or notes, are voted by a district, the board may declare an existing emergency with relation to money being...
- Texas Section 58.474 - Limitations On Interim Bonds
(a) Interim bonds shall mature not later than 10 years from the date they are issued, and shall be redeemable at any time before they...
- Texas Section 58.475 - Issuance Of Bonds And Levy Of Tax
(a) After bonds other than preliminary bonds are voted, the board may authorize the issuance of the bonds in whole or in part as they...
- Texas Section 58.476 - Deposit Of Bonds To Secure Interim Bonds
(a) As the interim bonds are issued and sold, the board, by order, shall deposit bonds of the district which have been validated by a...
- Texas Section 58.477 - Procedure For Issuance And Sale Of Interim Bonds
(a) Interim bonds shall be issued in the name of the district, signed by the president, and attested by the secretary, with the district seal...
- Texas Section 58.478 - Payment Of Interim Bonds
(a) The board shall appropriate the tax levied to pay the bonds deposited to the credit of the interest and sinking fund to pay the...
- Texas Section 58.479 - Redemption Of Interim Bonds
(a) At the option of the board, interim bonds may be redeemed at any time or times before maturity on payment by the district of...
- Texas Section 58.480 - Alternate Methods For Paying Bonds
(a) As used in this section and in Sections 58.481-58.484 of this code, "net revenue" means income or increment which may come from ownership and...
- Texas Section 58.481 - Taxes To Secure Certain Bonds
(a) If bonds are secured as provided in Section 58.480(b)(3) of this code, at the time that net revenue together with money derived from taxes...
- Texas Section 58.482 - Election
(a) If the district proposes to issue bonds which will be secured under either Section 58.480(b)(2) or 58.480(b)(3) of this code, the proposition shall be...
- Texas Section 58.483 - Hearing And Election On Certain Bonds
(a) A district which plans to issue bonds payable from and secured by a pledge of net revenue and a lien on the physical property,...
SUBCHAPTER K TAX PLAN
- Texas Section 58.484 - Hearing Before Issuing Certain Bonds
If a district issues its original bonds under Section 58.480(b)(2) of this code and later desires to issue bonds payable in whole or in part...
- Texas Section 58.501 - Tax To Pay Preliminary Bonds
Taxes to pay principal and interest on preliminary bonds shall be levied and collected on the ad valorem basis. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 58.502 - Hearing To Determine Basis Of Taxation
After the board adopts plans for construction of a plant and improvements to accomplish the purposes of the district and after an election is held...
- Texas Section 58.503 - Notice Of Hearing
Notice of the time and place of the hearing and the proposition to be determined shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks...
- Texas Section 58.504 - Conduct Of Hearing
(a) At the hearing, any person who is a taxpayer in the district may appear and offer testimony to show which plan of taxation will...
- Texas Section 58.505 - Order
(a) The board shall adopt the plan of taxation which will, in its judgment under the evidence, be most conducive to the equitable distribution of...
- Texas Section 58.506 - Changing Tax Plan
If after a tax plan is adopted the directors find that the best interest of the district and the necessity to maintain adequately and equitably...
- Texas Section 58.507 - Effect Of Sections 58
Sec. 58.507. EFFECT OF SECTIONS 58.501-58.506 OF THIS CODE. Nothing in Sections 58.501-58.506 of this code shall be held to alter provisions of this chapter...
- Texas Section 58.508 - Unlimited Authority To Collect Service Charges And Taxes
The provisions of this subchapter do not alter or impair the right of a district: (1) to make, establish, and collect maintenance and operation charges...
- Texas Section 58.509 - Lien Created; No Limitation
Charges or assessments imposed by a district for maintenance and operation of works, facilities, and services of the district shall constitute a lien against the...
- Texas Section 58.510 - Purpose Of Sections 58
Sec. 58.510. PURPOSE OF SECTIONS 58.511-58.529 OF CODE. The purpose of Sections 58.511-58.529 of this code is to give a district the flexibility of taxing...
- Texas Section 58.511 - Authority To Adopt Alternative Plans Of Taxation
A district operating under the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, shall adopt a tax plan under the alternative provisions of...
- Texas Section 58.512 - Alternative Plans Of Taxation
(a) The district's taxes for all purposes, except to pay the cost of preliminary surveys, may be levied, assessed, and collected on an adopted basis...
- Texas Section 58.513 - Adoption Of Plan Of Taxation
(a) Except as provided in Section 58.512(b)(4) of this code, before the commission of appraisement is appointed and the construction bonds are sold, the board...
- Texas Section 58.514 - Notice Of Adoption Of Plan And Hearing
(a) After the tax plan is adopted, the board shall publish notice once a week for two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers with...
- Texas Section 58.515 - Order Adopting Tax Plan
(a) After all persons have been heard, the board may approve the proposed tax plan or may change or modify the plan. (b) The board...
- Texas Section 58.516 - Obtaining Funds To Construct, Administer, Maintain, And Operate Improvements And Facilities In Defined Part Of District
On adoption of the plan of taxation provided in Section 58.512(b)(4) of this code, the district, in the manner provided in Sections 58.517-58.523 of this...
- Texas Section 58.517 - Defining Area And Designating Property To Be Benefited By Improvements; Adopting Tax Plan
(a) The board shall define the particular area to be taxed by metes and bounds or designate the property to be served, affected, and taxed....
- Texas Section 58.518 - Notice And Hearing
The board shall give notice and hold a hearing in the same manner and for the same purpose as provided in Sections 58.514-58.515 of this...
- Texas Section 58.519 - Board's Order
At the hearing, if the board decides to define and serve the proposed separate tax area or separate designated property, it shall enter an order...
- Texas Section 58.520 - Procedure For Election
(a) The election shall conform to the provisions of this code relating to an election to authorize the issuance of construction bonds. (b) The board...
- Texas Section 58.521 - Election Not Required In Separate Election Precinct
If proposed improvements are considered to be required to promote the public welfare or if the owners of the land in a defined area file...
- Texas Section 58.522 - Ballots
The ballots for an election under this subchapter shall be printed to provide for voting for or against substantially the proposition: "Designation of the area,...
- Texas Section 58.523 - Declaring Result And Issuing Order
If a majority of the electors approve the proposal, the board shall declare the result and, by order, shall establish the area and define it...
- Texas Section 58.524 - Pledge Of Faith And Credit
If at an election the electors approve the issuance of bonds and the levy of a tax which applies only to a defined area, the...
- Texas Section 58.525 - Election In Separate Election Precinct
(a) If the improvements to be provided in a defined area are considered peculiarly for the benefit of that area and not required to conserve...
- Texas Section 58.526 - Issuance Of Bonds And Levy Of Tax For Defined Area Or Designated Property
(a) After the order is recorded, the district may issue its bonds to provide the specific plant, works, and facilities included in the plans adopted...
- Texas Section 58.527 - Contract To Provide Improvements, Facilities, And Services To Designated Property Or Area
(a) Property or areas inside or outside the district may, by contract, be designated to obtain improvements, facilities, or service for the designated area or...
- Texas Section 58.528 - Authority Of District
(a) If a majority of the electors in the whole district approve the proposal, the district may issue its bonds to provide the plant, improvements,...
SUBCHAPTER L TAXATION ON THE AD VALOREM BASIS
- Texas Section 58.529 - Administrative Authority Of Board
The board shall administer all business incident to the creation and operation of a defined area or service to designated property unless otherwise provided by...
- Texas Section 58.561 - Assessment Of District Property
The assessor and collector shall assess all taxable property in the district. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537, ch. 627, Sec. 1, eff....
- Texas Section 58.562 - Law Governing Property Subject To Taxation
The property subject to taxation in the district shall be determined by and governed by the Property Tax Code. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg.,...
SUBCHAPTER M TAXATION ON THE BENEFIT BASIS
- Texas Section 58.585 - Finance Ledger
(a) The board shall provide a finance ledger in which the assessor and collector shall be charged with the total assessment of property shown on...
- Texas Section 58.631 - Method Of Taxation For District Under Contract With The United States
A district which is operated under contract with the United States may adopt the plan to levy and collect taxes on the benefit basis instead...
- Texas Section 58.632 - Assessment Record
When necessary, the board shall apportion and assess the benefits conferred on property subject to taxation in the district and shall make a record showing...
- Texas Section 58.633 - Notice Of Taxes
After the board makes the record, it shall mail to each property owner whose name appears in the record notice of the amount of taxes...
- Texas Section 58.634 - Decision After Hearing
After the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the tax is equitable and shall sustain, reduce, or increase the tax to an amount...
- Texas Section 58.635 - Method Of Taxation For District Not Under Contract With The United States
If a district which is not operating under contract with the United States adopts the benefit basis plan for taxation, the levy, assessment, equalization of...
- Texas Section 58.636 - Commissioners Of Appraisement
As soon as practicable after the approval of the engineer's report and the adoption of the plan for improvements to be constructed, the board shall...
- Texas Section 58.637 - Compensation Of Commissioners
On approval by the board, each commissioner is entitled to receive $25 a day for each day he actually serves, plus all necessary expenses. Added...
- Texas Section 58.638 - Notice Of Appointment And Meeting
Immediately after the commissioners of appraisement are appointed, the secretary of the board shall give written notice to each appointee of his appointment and of...
- Texas Section 58.639 - First Meeting Of Commissioners
(a) The commissioners shall meet at the time specified in the notice from the secretary or as soon after that time as possible. (b) At...
- Texas Section 58.640 - Assistance For Commissioners
Within 30 days after the commissioners qualify and organize, they shall begin to perform their duties, and in the exercise of their duties they may...
- Texas Section 58.641 - Viewing Land And Other Property And Improvements In District
The commissioners shall view the land in the district which will be affected by the district's reclamation plans and shall assess the amount of the...
- Texas Section 58.642 - Commissioners Report
(a) The commissioners shall prepare a report and file it with the secretary of the board. The report shall be signed by at least a...
- Texas Section 58.643 - Notice Of Hearing
(a) After the commissioners' report is filed, the secretary of the board shall publish notice of the hearing on the report at least once a...
- Texas Section 58.644 - Hearing
(a) At or before the hearing on the commissioners' report, an owner of land that is affected by the report or the reclamation plans may...
- Texas Section 58.645 - Witnesses At The Hearing
At the hearing, interested parties may appear in person or by attorney and are entitled, on demand, to have the chairman of the commissioners of...
- Texas Section 58.646 - Costs Of Hearing
The commissioners may adjudge and apportion the costs of the hearing in any manner they consider equitable. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537,...
- Texas Section 58.647 - Commissioners' Decree
(a) After the commissioners have made a final decision, they shall issue a decree confirming their report insofar as it remains unchanged and shall approve...
- Texas Section 58.648 - Effect Of Final Judgment And Decree
The final judgment and decree of the commissioners shall form the basis for all taxation in the district. Taxes shall be apportioned and levied on...
- Texas Section 58.649 - Fixing Tax As Equal Sum On Each Acre
At the election at which the plan of taxation is determined or at any other time before the bonds are issued, the voters of any...
- Texas Section 58.650 - Election
(a) If the board desires to submit the question of whether or not to adopt the method of assessing benefits provided in Section 58.649 of...
- Texas Section 58.651 - Setting Annual Value Of Land Unnecessary
If the district adopts the uniform acreage valuation for taxation, the valuation shall be applied to all irrigable land in the district, and it is...
- Texas Section 58.652 - Preparing Tax Rolls
(a) The board shall examine the tax rolls to determine if all property subject to taxation appears on the tax rolls. The board shall add...
- Texas Section 58.653 - Rendition Of Property
Land which is taxed on the uniform acreage valuation shall be rendered for taxation as subject to irrigation. When land is rendered, the value need...
- Texas Section 58.654 - Law Governing Administration Of Benefit Tax Plan
In a district that levies taxes on a benefit basis, the rate of taxation and the assessment and collection of taxes shall be governed by...
SUBCHAPTER N ADDING AND EXCLUDING TERRITORY AND CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS
- Texas Section 58.655 - Irrigating Nonirrigable Land
If land which is classified as nonirrigable is later irrigated by the district, before the owner of the land receives the water, he shall pay...
- Texas Section 58.702 - Exclusion Of Nonagricultural And Nonirrigable Land From The District
After the district is organized, acquires facilities with which to function as an irrigation district, and votes, issues, and sells bonds for the purposes for...
- Texas Section 58.703 - Prerequisite To Application For Exclusion
The owner of land in the district which is not agricultural land or cannot be irrigated in a practicable manner may apply for its exclusion...
- Texas Section 58.704 - Substituting Land Of Equal Acreage And Value
Land which can be irrigated in a practicable manner of at least equal acreage and equal value to the land being excluded must be added...
- Texas Section 58.705 - Securing Application To Substitute Land
The board may require an owner of land in the district who has applied for the exclusion of his nonagricultural or nonirrigable land from the...
- Texas Section 58.706 - Application Of Owner Of New Land To Be Substituted
The owner of the new land to be added shall submit an application setting forth that the owner of the new land assumes the payment...
- Texas Section 58.707 - Consent Of Outstanding Bondholders
(a) The board shall communicate the contents of the applications to exclude nonagricultural or nonirrigable land and to include an equal amount of irrigable land...
- Texas Section 58.708 - Notice Of Hearing On Applications
The board shall give notice of the hearing on the applications by publishing the time, place, and nature of the hearing one time in a...
- Texas Section 58.709 - Hearing Procedure
The board shall hear all interested parties and all evidence in connection with the applications. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537, ch. 627,...
- Texas Section 58.710 - Board's Resolution To Substitute Land
If the board finds that all the conditions provided for the exclusion of land and inclusion of other land in the district exist, it may...
- Texas Section 58.711 - Liability Of Excluded And Included Land
The land excluded from the district is free from any lien or liability created on the excluded land by reason of its having been included...
- Texas Section 58.712 - Duty To Advise Commission
The board shall furnish the commission a detailed description of the land excluded and a detailed description of the land included within 30 days after...
- Texas Section 58.713 - Right To Serve New Land Included In District
The district has the same right to furnish water service to the included land that it previously had to furnish service to the excluded land....
- Texas Section 58.726 - Consolidation Of Districts
Two or more districts governed by the provisions of this chapter may consolidate into one district as provided by Sections 58.727-58.730 of this code. Added...
- Texas Section 58.727 - Elections To Approve Consolidation
(a) After the directors of each district have agreed on the terms and conditions of consolidation, they shall order an election in each district to...
- Texas Section 58.728 - Governing Consolidated Districts
(a) After two or more districts are consolidated, they become one district, except for the payment of debts created before consolidation, and are governed as...
- Texas Section 58.729 - Debts Of Original Districts
After two or more districts are consolidated, the debts of the original districts are protected and are not impaired. These debts may be paid by...
- Texas Section 58.730 - Assessment And Collection Of Taxes
After consolidation, the officers of the consolidated district shall assess and collect taxes on property in the original district to pay debts created by the...
SUBCHAPTER O DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT
- Texas Section 58.731 - Exclusion Of Certain Nonirrigated Land
The board may exclude from the district land that is not being irrigated as provided by Sections 51.759 through 51.766. This section applies only to...
- Texas Section 58.781 - Dissolution Of District Prior To Issuance Of Bonds
(a) If the electors of a district reject the proposal to issue construction bonds by a constitutional or statutory majority vote, the board must dissolve...
- Texas Section 58.782 - Notice Of Hearing
The board shall post notice of the hearing on the bulletin board at the courthouse door of each county in which the district is located...
- Texas Section 58.783 - Hearing
The board shall hear all interested persons and shall consider their evidence at the time and place stated in the notice. Added by Acts 1977,...
- Texas Section 58.784 - Board's Order To Continue Or Dissolve District
The board shall determine from the evidence whether the best interests of the persons, land, and property in the district will be promoted by prosecuting...
- Texas Section 58.785 - Judicial Review Of Board's Order
The board's decree to continue or to dissolve the district shall be final and cannot be judicially reviewed except on the ground of fraud, palpable...
- Texas Section 58.786 - Appointment Of Trustee
(a) If the board orders the dissolution of the district, it shall appoint a director or some other competent person as trustee to close the...
- Texas Section 58.787 - Discharge Of District's Obligations By Trustees
(a) The trustee shall reduce all assets and resources of the district to possession and money and apply them to discharge the outstanding obligations of...
- Texas Section 58.788 - Discharge Of Trustee
The trustee shall be discharged when all obligations of the district are paid and the trustee's account is verified and settled. Added by Acts 1977,...
- Texas Section 58.789 - Final Order Of Dissolution
After all obligations are paid and the trustee is discharged, the board shall enter its final order of dissolution and record the final order in...
- Texas Section 58.790 - Water Rights Of Dissolved District
Water rights held from the state shall revert to the state and may not be assigned by the district in anticipation of dissolution. Added by...
- Texas Section 58.791 - Taxes In Excess Of District's Obligations
(a) If taxes have been collected by the dissolved district in excess of the amount required to liquidate the obligations of the district, the excess...
- Texas Section 58.793 - Dissolution Of District For Failure To Complete Plant
Subject to the provisions of Subchapter G of Chapter 50 of this code, if a district has not within 10 years from the date of...
- Texas Section 58.794 - Resolution To Dissolve District
The board shall find in its resolution to dissolve the district that the plans of the district are impracticable or that the purposes of the...
- Texas Section 58.795 - Statements Of Indebtedness And Expenses
The board shall prepare or have prepared and shall approve a statement of all valid, enforceable indebtedness of the district and shall enter the statement...
- Texas Section 58.796 - Election To Approve Dissolution Of District And Issuance Of Dissolution Bonds
The board shall enter an order calling an election to determine whether or not the district shall be dissolved and bonds issued to pay the...
- Texas Section 58.797 - Maximum Amount, Interest Rate, And Maturity Of Bonds
The maximum amount of bonds to be voted on and issued shall not be more than the total amount of the approved valid, enforceable indebtedness...
- Texas Section 58.798 - Notice Of Election
(a) The president and secretary of the board shall issue notice of the election, stating: (1) the findings of the board with reference to the...
- Texas Section 58.799 - Procedure For Holding Election
(a) The ballots for the election shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "Dissolution of the district and issuance of...
- Texas Section 58.800 - Issuance And Sale Of Dissolution Bonds
(a) If a majority of the electors at the election vote in favor of the dissolution of the district and the issuance of bonds and...
- Texas Section 58.801 - Destroying Unsold Bonds
If a majority of the electors at the election vote in favor of the dissolution of the district, the board shall destroy all unsold bonds...
- Texas Section 58.802 - Board's Authority To Contract
The board may contract with trustees, engineers, attorneys, and others it considers necessary or desirable to properly liquidate and wind up the affairs of the...
- Texas Section 58.803 - Tax To Pay Dissolution Bonds
The order issuing the dissolution bonds shall provide that the principal of and interest on the bonds shall be payable from the proceeds of a...
- Texas Section 58.804 - Determining Amount Of Tax
(a) The value of all of the taxable property of the district shall be taken at the assessed value, and an amount equal to the...
- Texas Section 58.805 - Payment Of Tax
The amount of the tax on the taxable property of each owner shall be payable in equal annual installments, during the period in which the...
- Texas Section 58.806 - Advance Payment Of Taxes In Cash
The order issuing the bonds shall provide that a property owner may secure release of the entire amount of his taxable property as assessed on...
- Texas Section 58.807 - Computing Amount Of Advance Cash Payment
(a) In order to compute the full amount of an advance cash payment, the interest rate on the bonds shall be applied on an annual...
- Texas Section 58.808 - Surrender Of Bonds In Payment Of Taxes
The order issuing the bonds shall provide that any of the bonds with all unmatured interest and all appurtenant coupons may be surrendered at any...
- Texas Section 58.809 - Computing Amount Of Payment Made By Surrendering Bonds
(a) In order to compute payment by surrendering bonds, the interest rate on the bonds shall be applied on an annual basis to each unpaid...
- Texas Section 58.810 - Use By Trustee Of Advance Payments Of Tax
The order issuing the bonds shall provide that the bonds shall be called and redeemed by the trustee in the inverse order of their maturity...
- Texas Section 58.811 - Approval And Registration Of Dissolution Bonds
After the dissolution bonds are issued by the board and before they are put in circulation, the bonds, at the option of the board, shall...
- Texas Section 58.812 - Preparing Tax Roll
Before the issuance and delivery of the bonds, a tax roll shall be prepared in the manner provided by the Property Tax Code. Added by...
- Texas Section 58.814 - Notice Of Meeting As Board Of Equalization
(a) After the tax roll has been filed for at least five days, the board shall publish a notice once a week for two consecutive...
- Texas Section 58.815 - Meeting As Board Of Equalization
At the time and place stated in the notice, the board shall meet and examine the tax roll. The board shall equalize as nearly as...
- Texas Section 58.816 - Authority And Procedure As Board Of Equalization
(a) Any interested person may appear at the meeting and offer evidence for or against any matter being considered by the board of equalization. The...
- Texas Section 58.817 - Approving Tax Roll
After the board of equalization finally fixes the valuation of all taxable property in the district and the tax roll of the district is finally...
- Texas Section 58.818 - Approved Tax Roll Not Subject To Revision
The action of the board in finally approving the tax roll is final and is not subject to revision by the board or any other...
- Texas Section 58.820 - Collection Of Dissolution Taxes
The county assessor and collector shall collect the taxes shown on the tax roll on the land located in the county for which he is...
- Texas Section 58.821 - Appointment Of Trustee
(a) Before the issuance and delivery of dissolution bonds, the board shall appoint a trustee of the funds to be collected from the taxes. The...
- Texas Section 58.822 - Authority Of The Trustee
The trustee shall receive from the assessor and collector all proceeds from the assessments less the assessor and collector's charges and shall be the paying...
- Texas Section 58.825 - Default In Payment Of Tax Installment
(a) Default in the payment of an installment of taxes levied for the payment of dissolution bonds for 60 days after the installment becomes due...
- Texas Section 58.826 - Penalty And Attorney's Fee
(a) A penalty of 10 percent of the unpaid amount of taxes shall accrue immediately on default of payment of taxes after the 60 days....
- Texas Section 58.827 - Discharge Of Lien
(a) On the final payment of the taxes, either the assessor and collector or the trustee shall issue a certificate certifying that the taxes have...
- Texas Section 58.828 - District Considered Dissolved
(a) On the issuance and sale or delivery of the dissolution bonds and the appointment and qualification of the trustee, the secretary shall deposit all...
- Texas Section 58.829 - Dissolution Of District In Counties Of Less Than 11,000 Population
Subject to the provisions of Sections 50.251-50.256 of this code, a district located entirely in a county having a population of less than 11,000, according...
- Texas Section 58.830 - Petition For Dissolution Of District
A petition for the dissolution of the district shall be filed with the board and shall state the name of the district and the purpose...
- Texas Section 58.831 - Signatures On Petition
A petition for dissolution of the district may be signed and filed in two or more copies. The petition shall be signed by a majority...
- Texas Section 58.832 - Procedure For Holding Election
(a) An election to determine whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Subchapter E of...
- Texas Section 58.833 - Election In District Including City, Town, Or Municipal Corporation
In an election to dissolve a district in which a city, town, or municipal corporation is located, the city, town, or municipal corporation shall be...
- Texas Section 58.834 - Subsequent Election
If the proposition to dissolve the district fails to carry at the election held for that purpose, no other election for the same purpose shall...
- Texas Section 58.835 - District Dissolved
If a majority of those voting at the election vote in favor of dissolving the district, the district shall be dissolved and shall have no...
- Texas Section 58.836 - Taxes To Pay Indebtedness After Dissolution
If a district has outstanding bonds or other indebtedness maturing beyond the current year in which the dissolution occurs, the commissioners court of the county...