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

Tex. Local Government Code § 62.004: DECLARATION OF ABOLITION; CERTIFICATION.

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  1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
  2. TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
  3. SUBTITLE E. CONSOLIDATION AND ABOLITION OF MUNICIPALITIES
  4. CHAPTER 62. ABOLITION OF MUNICIPALITIES
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE

If a majority of the votes received in an abolition election are for abolition, the mayor of the municipality shall declare the municipality abolished and certify the abolition to the commissioners court of the county in which the municipality is located. The commissioners court shall enter the abolition order in its minutes, at which time the municipality ceases to exist.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

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