Texas Water Code

§ 51.705 — SECURING APPLICATION TO SUBSTITUTE LAND

WA § 51.705Title 4. GENERAL LAW DISTRICTS · Ch. 51. WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS · Art. O. ADDING AND EXCLUDING TERRITORY AND CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS

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The board may require an owner of land in the district who has applied for the exclusion of his nonagricultural or nonirrigable land from the district to procure an application of the owner of land adjoining the boundaries or the canals of the district, and capable of being irrigated in a practicable manner from the facilities of the district, for inclusion in the district of his land in an amount and value at least equal to the land which is to be excluded under the application of the owner of nonagricultural or nonirrigable land. Each application shall set forth the facts concerning the land to be excluded from and the land to be added to the district, including evidence of their reasonable market value.

Legislative history

Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 372, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.