Tex. Transportation Code § 313.052: ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATES.

(a) The governing body may issue in the name of the municipality an assignable certificate to evidence an assessment imposed. The certificate may declare the lien on the property and the liability of the owner of the property regardless of whether the owner is correctly named. The governing body may determine the terms of the certificate.

(b) A recital in a certificate that states substantially that the procedure for making the improvement was in compliance with law and that all prerequisites to creating the assessment lien on the property the certificate describes and to creating the personal liability of the property owner were performed is prima facie evidence of those matters.

(c) Subsection (b) applies to a recital in a certificate that evidences an assessment under Section 313.048 or 313.050.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.