Tex. Natural Resources Code § 23.059
This is the official text of Tex. Natural Resources Code § 23.059, part of Texas’s Natural Resources Code — governs land, minerals, and natural resource management.
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§ 23.059. FAILURE TO SURVEY.
Official statutory text
If a county surveyor fails, neglects, or refuses to make a survey or have a survey made, within one month after the amount of lawful surveying fees are tendered to him by a person legally entitled to the survey, he and his sureties shall be liable on his official bond to the injured parties in the amount of damages or injury the parties may sustain by reason of the neglect, refusal, or failure.
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