Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 232.002. APPROVAL BY COUNTY REQUIRED. (a) The commissioners court of the county in which the land is located must approve, by an order entered in the minutes of the court, a plat required by Section 232.001. The commissioners court may refuse to approve a plat if it does not…

Sec. 232.0021. PLAT APPLICATION FEE. (a) The commissioners court may impose an application fee to cover the cost of the county's review of a subdivision plat and inspection of street, road, and drainage improvements described by the plat. (b) The fee may vary based on the number …

Sec. 232.0022. DELEGATION OF APPROVAL RESPONSIBILITY. (a) The commissioners court of a county or the court's designee may designate to one or more officers or employees of the county the authority to approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove a plat. (b) An applicant has the…

Sec. 232.0023. APPROVAL PROCEDURE: APPLICABILITY. The plat application approval procedures under this subchapter apply to a county regardless of whether the county has entered into an interlocal agreement, including an interlocal agreement between a municipality and county under …

Sec. 232.0025. APPROVAL PROCEDURE: TIMELY APPROVAL OF PLATS. (a) The commissioners court of a county or a person designated by the commissioners court shall issue a written list of all documentation and other information that must be submitted with a plat application. The documen…

Sec. 232.0026. APPROVAL PROCEDURE: CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL REQUIREMENTS. (a) A commissioners court or county authority responsible for approving plats that conditionally approves or disapproves of a plat application under this subchapter shall provide the applicant a …

Sec. 232.0027. APPROVAL PROCEDURE: APPLICANT RESPONSE TO CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL. After the conditional approval or disapproval of a plat application under Section 232.0026, the applicant may submit to the commissioners court or county authority responsible for approv…

Sec. 232.0028. APPROVAL PROCEDURE: APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF RESPONSE. (a) A commissioners court or county authority responsible for approving plats that receives a response under Section 232.0027 shall determine whether to approve or disapprove the applicant's previously condit…

Sec. 232.00285. DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW. (a) In this section, "development plan" includes a preliminary plat, preliminary subdivision plan, subdivision construction plan, site plan, general plan, land development application, or site development plan. (b) Unless explicitly author…

Sec. 232.0029. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DISAPPROVAL. In a legal action challenging a disapproval of a plat application under this subchapter, the county has the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the disapproval meets the requirements of this subchapter or any appl…

Sec. 232.003. SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS. By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners court may: (1) require a right-of-way on a street or road that…

Sec. 232.0031. STANDARD FOR ROADS IN SUBDIVISION. A county may not impose under Section 232.003 a higher standard for streets or roads in a subdivision than the county imposes on itself for the construction of streets or roads with a similar type and amount of traffic. Added by A…

Sec. 232.0032. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: USE OF GROUNDWATER. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a plat application for the subdivision of a tract of land for which the source of the water supply intended for the subdivision is groundwater under that land must have attache…

Sec. 232.0033. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: FUTURE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS. (a) This section applies to each county in the state. The requirements provided by this section are in addition to the other requirements of this chapter. (b) If all or part of a subdivision for which a plat…

Sec. 232.0034. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: ACCESS BY EMERGENCY VEHICLES. (a) This section applies only to a residential subdivision that is subdivided into 1,000 or more lots in the unincorporated area of a county. (b) The commissioners court shall adopt infrastructure standards req…

Sec. 232.004. BOND REQUIREMENTS. If the commissioners court requires the owner of the tract to execute a bond, the owner must do so before subdividing the tract unless an alternative financial guarantee is provided under Section 232.0045. The bond must: (1) be payable to the coun…

Sec. 232.0045. FINANCIAL GUARANTEE IN LIEU OF BOND. (a) In lieu of the bond an owner may deposit cash, a letter of credit issued by a federally insured financial institution, or other acceptable financial guarantee. (b) If a letter of credit is used, it must: (1) list as the sole…

Sec. 232.0048. CONFLICT OF INTEREST; PENALTY. (a) In this section, "subdivided tract" means a tract of land, as a whole, that is subdivided. The term does not mean an individual lot in a subdivided tract of land. (b) A person has a substantial interest in a subdivided tract if th…

Sec. 232.005. ENFORCEMENT IN GENERAL; PENALTY. (a) At the request of the commissioners court, the county attorney or other prosecuting attorney for the county may file an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to: (1) enjoin the violation or threatened violation of a require…

Sec. 232.006. EXCEPTIONS FOR POPULOUS COUNTIES OR CONTIGUOUS COUNTIES. (a) This section applies to a county: (1) that has a population of more than 3.3 million or is contiguous with a county that has a population of more than 3.3 million; and (2) in which the commissioners court …

Sec. 232.007. MANUFACTURED HOME RENTAL COMMUNITIES. (a) In this section: (1) "Manufactured home rental community" means a plot or tract of land that is separated into two or more spaces or lots that are rented, leased, or offered for rent or lease, for a term of less than 60 mont…

Sec. 232.008. CANCELLATION OF SUBDIVISION. (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities, as determined under Chapter 42. (b) A person owning real property in this state that has been subdivid…

Sec. 232.0083. CANCELLATION OF CERTAIN SUBDIVISION PLATS IF EXISTING PLAT OBSOLETE. (a) This section applies only to a subdivision for which: (1) a plat has been filed for 75 years or more; (2) the most recent plat describes at least a portion of the property as acreage tracts; (…

Sec. 232.0085. CANCELLATION OF CERTAIN SUBDIVISIONS IF LAND REMAINS UNDEVELOPED. (a) This section applies only to real property that: (1) is located in the unincorporated area of an affected county, as defined by Section 16.341, Water Code, that: (A) has adopted the model rules d…

Sec. 232.009. REVISION OF PLAT. (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities with a population of 1.5 million or more, as determined under Chapter 42. (b) A person who owns real property in a…

Sec. 232.0095. ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES FOR PLAT REVISION. (a) This section applies only to real property located outside municipalities and outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction, as determined under Chapter 42, of municipalities with a population of 1.5 million or more. (b) As…

Sec. 232.010. EXCEPTION TO PLAT REQUIREMENT: COUNTY DETERMINATION. A commissioners court of the county may allow conveyance of portions of one or more previously platted lots by metes and bounds description without revising the plat. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 345, Sec. 7…

Sec. 232.011. AMENDING PLAT. (a) The commissioners court may approve and issue an amending plat, if the amending plat is signed by the applicants and filed for one or more of the following purposes: (1) to correct an error in a course or distance shown on the preceding plat; (2) …

Sec. 232.021. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the Texas Water Development Board. (2) "Common promotional plan" means any plan or scheme of operation undertaken by a single subdivider or a group of subdividers acting in concert, either personally or through an a…

Sec. 232.022. APPLICABILITY. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), this subchapter applies only to: (1) a county any part of which is located within 50 miles of an international border; or (2) a county: (A) any part of which is located within 100 miles of an international b…

Sec. 232.023. PLAT REQUIRED. (a) A subdivider of land must have a plat of the subdivision prepared if at least one of the lots of the subdivision is five acres or less. A commissioners court by order may require each subdivider of land to prepare a plat if none of the lots is fiv…

Sec. 232.024. APPROVAL BY COUNTY REQUIRED. (a) A plat filed under Section 232.023 is not valid unless the commissioners court of the county in which the land is located approves the plat by an order entered in the minutes of the court. The commissioners court shall refuse to appr…

Sec. 232.025. SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS. By an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court, and after a notice is published in English and Spanish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners court shall for each subdivision: (1) r…

Sec. 232.026. WATER AND SEWER SERVICE EXTENSION. (a) The commissioners court may extend, beyond the date specified on the plat or on the document attached to the plat, the date by which the water and sewer service facilities must be fully operable if the commissioners court finds…

Sec. 232.027. BOND REQUIREMENTS. (a) Unless a person has completed the installation of all water and sewer service facilities required by this subchapter on the date that person applies for final approval of a plat under Section 232.024, the commissioners court shall require the …

Sec. 232.028. CERTIFICATION REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH PLAT REQUIREMENTS. (a) On the approval of a plat by the commissioners court, the commissioners court shall issue to the person applying for the approval a certificate stating that the plat has been reviewed and approved by the…

Sec. 232.029. CONNECTION OF UTILITIES IN COUNTIES WITHIN 50 MILES OF INTERNATIONAL BORDER. (a) This section applies only to a county defined under Section 232.022(a)(1). (a-1) Except as provided by Subsection (c) or Section 232.037(c), a utility may not serve or connect any subdi…

Sec. 232.0291. CONNECTION OF UTILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES WITHIN 100 MILES OF INTERNATIONAL BORDER. (a) This section applies only to a county defined under Section 232.022(a)(2). (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or Section 232.037(c), a utility may not serve or connect a…

Sec. 232.030. SUBDIVISION REGULATION; COUNTY AUTHORITY. (a) The commissioners court for each county shall adopt and enforce the model rules developed under Section 16.343, Water Code. (b) Except as provided by Section 16.350(d), Water Code, or Section 232.042 or 232.043, the comm…

Sec. 232.0305. COUNTY INSPECTOR. (a) The commissioners court may impose a fee on a subdivider of property under this subchapter for an inspection of the property to ensure compliance with the subdivision regulations adopted under this subchapter, Section 16.343, Water Code, or ot…

Sec. 232.031. REQUIREMENTS PRIOR TO SALE OR LEASE. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a subdivider may not sell or lease land in a subdivision first platted or replatted after July 1, 1995, unless the subdivision plat is approved by the commissioners court in accordance wi…

Sec. 232.0315. NOTICE OF WATER AND WASTEWATER REQUIREMENTS BY POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (a) This section applies only to a county or other political subdivision located in the county that sells: (1) under Section 34.01, Tax Code, real property presumed to be for residential use und…

Sec. 232.032. SERVICES PROVIDED BY SUBDIVIDER. A subdivider having an approved plat for a subdivision shall: (1) furnish a certified letter from the utility provider stating that water is available to the subdivision sufficient in quality and quantity to meet minimum state standa…

Sec. 232.033. ADVERTISING STANDARDS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS BEFORE SALE; OFFENSE. (a) Brochures, publications, and advertising of any form relating to subdivided land: (1) may not contain any misrepresentation; and (2) except for a for-sale sign posted on the property that is no l…

Sec. 232.034. CONFLICT OF INTEREST; PENALTY. (a) In this section, "subdivided tract" means a tract of land, as a whole, that is subdivided into tracts or lots. The term does not mean an individual lot in a subdivided tract of land. (b) A person has an interest in a subdivided tra…

Sec. 232.035. CIVIL PENALTIES. (a) A subdivider or an agent of a subdivider may not cause, suffer, allow, or permit a lot to be sold in a subdivision if the subdivision has not been platted as required by this subchapter. (b) Notwithstanding any other remedy at law or equity, a s…