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

Tex. Water Code § 65.020: HEARING.

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  1. WATER CODE
  2. TITLE 4. GENERAL LAW DISTRICTS
  3. CHAPTER 65. SPECIAL UTILITY DISTRICTS
  4. SUBCHAPTER B. CREATION OF DISTRICT; CONVERSION OF DISTRICT

(a) If the commission determines that a hearing is necessary under Section 49.011, the commission shall conduct a hearing and accept evidence on the sufficiency of the resolution and whether or not the request for conversion for each purpose specified in the resolution, as required by Section 65.015, is feasible and practicable and is necessary and would be a benefit to all or any part of the land proposed to be included in the district. The commission may only consider a purpose for which the district is being created that is specified in the resolution.

(b) The commission has jurisdiction to determine all issues on the sufficiency of the resolution and the creation of the district.

(c) The hearing may be adjourned from day to day, and the commission may make all incidental orders necessary with respect to the matters before it.

Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 2448, ch. 435, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 29, 1983. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 447, Sec. 1, eff. Nov. 15, 1985; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1070, Sec. 41, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1244 (H.B. 1673), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.

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