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Tex. Local Government Code § 174.253: JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ARBITRATION AWARD.
Where this section sits in the code
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
- TITLE 5. MATTERS AFFECTING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- SUBTITLE C. MATTERS AFFECTING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER 174. FIRE AND POLICE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
- SUBCHAPTER G. JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT AND REVIEW
(a) An award of an arbitration board may be reviewed by a district court for the judicial district in which the municipality is located only on the grounds that:
(1) the arbitration board was without jurisdiction;
(2) the arbitration board exceeded its jurisdiction;
(3) the order is not supported by competent, material, and substantial evidence on the whole record; or
(4) the order was obtained by fraud, collusion, or similar unlawful means.
(b) The pendency of a review proceeding does not automatically stay enforcement of the arbitration board's order.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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