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Tex. Local Government Code § 261.003

This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 261.003, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.

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§ 261.003. APPEAL.

Official statutory text

(a) An appeal from a finding and assessment of damages made as prescribed by Chapter 21, Property Code, does not suspend work by the county that relates to the land the county seeks to acquire.

(b) A county is not required to give a bond in an appealed case.

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