Tex. Transportation Code § 314.051
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 314.051, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 314.051. REASSESSMENTS.
Official statutory text
(a) An error in a proceeding under this chapter, the description of property, or the name of the owner does not invalidate an assessment, and an assessment is in effect against the property and the owner of the property.
(b) A governing body that is advised of an error shall correct the error.
(c) At the request of an interested party, the governing body shall, after notice and hearing that comply with this chapter, reassess an owner or property erroneously assessed in accordance with special benefits as provided by this chapter as to original assessments. The governing body may set the terms of payment of a reassessment and may issue assignable certificates evidencing the reassessment in the same manner as for an original assessment.
(d) The governing body may not make a reassessment later than six years after the date of the ordinance making the original assessment. If the reassessment is contested in an action at law, the time consumed in the action is not included in computing the six years.
(e) In making a reassessment, the governing body is not required to repeat an action relating to the original assessment, except as required by Subsection (c).
(b) A governing body that is advised of an error shall correct the error.
(c) At the request of an interested party, the governing body shall, after notice and hearing that comply with this chapter, reassess an owner or property erroneously assessed in accordance with special benefits as provided by this chapter as to original assessments. The governing body may set the terms of payment of a reassessment and may issue assignable certificates evidencing the reassessment in the same manner as for an original assessment.
(d) The governing body may not make a reassessment later than six years after the date of the ordinance making the original assessment. If the reassessment is contested in an action at law, the time consumed in the action is not included in computing the six years.
(e) In making a reassessment, the governing body is not required to repeat an action relating to the original assessment, except as required by Subsection (c).
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