Texas Local Government Code

§ 51.003 — MUNICIPAL ACT OR PROCEEDING PRESUMED VALID

LG § 51.003Title 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT · Part D. GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES · Ch. 51. GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a)A governmental act or proceeding of a municipality is conclusively presumed, as of the date it occurred, to be valid and to have occurred in accordance with all applicable statutes and ordinances if:

(1)the third anniversary of the effective date of the act or proceeding has expired; and

(2)a lawsuit to annul or invalidate the act or proceeding has not been filed on or before that third anniversary.

(b)This section does not apply to:

(1)an act or proceeding that was void at the time it occurred;

(2)an act or proceeding that, under a statute of this state or the United States, was a misdemeanor or felony at the time the act or proceeding occurred;

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1338, Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 1999.