Tex. Water Code § 57.262
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 57.262, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 57.262. QUALIFICATIONS FOR COMMISSIONERS OF APPRAISEMENT.
Official statutory text
The commissioners of appraisement shall be freeholders, but not owners of land within the district for which they are to act, and shall not be related within the fourth degree of affinity or consanguinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to any of the members of the commissioners court of jurisdiction, the board, or to any landowners in the district.
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