GroundRules
← Search the law
Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 775.052: PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION; NOTICE OF HEARING.

Read at publisher ↗
Where this section sits in the code
  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 9. SAFETY
  3. SUBTITLE B. EMERGENCIES
  4. CHAPTER 775. EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICTS
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. CHANGE IN BOUNDARIES OR DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT

(a) Before a district may be dissolved, the district's board must receive a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the registered voters in the district.

(b) If the petition is in proper form, the board shall set a place, date, and time for a hearing to consider the petition.

(c) The board shall give notice of the hearing. The notice must include:

(1) the name of the district;

(2) a description of the district's boundaries;

(3) the proposal that the district be dissolved; and

(4) the place, date, and time of the hearing on the petition.

(d) The notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the district once a week for two consecutive weeks. The first publication must occur not later than the 21st day before the date on which the hearing will be held.

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

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

Browse this collection