Tex. Water Code § 54.740
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 54.740, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 54.740. REQUISITES FOR APPLICATION FOR EXCLUSION.
Official statutory text
An owner of land in the district not receiving services from the district may apply for its exclusion from the district boundaries if all taxes levied and assessed by the district on the land to be excluded have been fully paid. The application shall set forth facts concerning the land proposed for exclusion, including evidence of the reasonable market value of the land, and state that the other requisites for the exclusion of the land and substitution of other land have been fulfilled or will be fulfilled at the hearing on the application. The application shall be verified and acknowledged in a recordable form as conveyances of real property.
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