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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 772.522: DISSOLUTION PROCEDURES.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 9. SAFETY
  3. SUBTITLE B. EMERGENCIES
  4. CHAPTER 772. LOCAL ADMINISTRATION OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
  5. SUBCHAPTER G. REGIONAL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICTS: STATE PLANNING REGION WITH POPULATION OVER 1.5 MILLION

(a) If a district is dissolved, 9-1-1 service must be discontinued. The regional planning commission for the district's region shall assume the district's assets, provide 9-1-1 service, and pay the district's debts. If the district's assets are insufficient to retire all existing debts of the district on the date of dissolution, the regional planning commission shall continue to impose the 9-1-1 emergency service fee, and each service supplier shall continue to collect the fee for the regional planning commission. Proceeds from the imposition of the fee by the regional planning commission after dissolution of the district may be used only to retire the outstanding debts of the district.

(b) The regional planning commission shall retire the district's debts to the extent practicable according to the terms of the instruments creating the debts and the terms of the resolutions authorizing creation of the debts.

(c) The governing body of the regional planning commission for the district's region may adopt rules necessary to administer this section.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 552 (S.B. 628), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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