Tex. Health and Safety Code § 282.022: OATH AND BOND.

(a) Before assuming the duties of office on the board, each district board member elect must:

(1) take and subscribe an oath before the county judge to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of a board member and to give an account of the member's activities to the commissioners court when requested to do so; and

(2) execute a good and sufficient bond for $5,000 payable to the county judge for the use and benefit of the district, conditioned on the faithful performance of the person's duties as a board member.

(b) The county clerk shall file and maintain the oath as part of the district records.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.