Tex. Water Code § 55.039
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 55.039, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 55.039. RECORDATION OF ORDER.
Official statutory text
(a) After the commissioners court makes and enters in its minutes the order creating the district or an order changing the name of a district, the court shall file a certified copy of the order accompanied by a plat defining the district boundaries with the county clerk.
(b) The county clerk shall have the certified copy of the order and the plat recorded and indexed in the deed records of the county.
(c) Recordation of the order and plat has the same effect, as to notice, as the recordation of a deed.
(d) The district shall pay the cost of making and recording the certified copy of the order and the plat.
(b) The county clerk shall have the certified copy of the order and the plat recorded and indexed in the deed records of the county.
(c) Recordation of the order and plat has the same effect, as to notice, as the recordation of a deed.
(d) The district shall pay the cost of making and recording the certified copy of the order and the plat.
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