Texas Municipal Corporation Laws, Annotated: Including Forms for the Issuance of Bonds

James Thomas Sluder

Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, printers, 1909 - Forms (Law) - 810 pages

Contents

• CITIES AND TOWNS Sec 1 CHAPTER I: 1
• Provisions of Chapters 1 to 19 do not apply until accepted: 2
• General powers of the corporation: 3
• Limits of the corporation to remain the same until extended: 4
• Cities towns and villages may incorporate under: 5
• Cities and towns may incorporate originally: 6
• Proceedings of incorporation to be recorded by clerk etc 8 Validating incorporations: 7
• Validating provisions 10 Territorial boundaries of cities and towns: 9
• Excessive territory to be relinquished 12 Validating certain incorporations 13 Discontinuing territory 14 Validating certain incorporations: 10
• CHAPTER II: 12
• Who are qualified voters for city officers: 21
• Managers of election shall be sworn their powers and duties: 22
• CHAPTER IV: 30
• CHAPTER V: 35
• Cost fines etc to be paid into city treasury 59 What costs may be taxed 60 Code of Criminal Procedure applicable to justice court to govern 61 when ...: 39
• Process how served 63 City council to fix compensation 64 Appeals from 65 Present municipal courts to hold until organization of corporation court: 40
• CHAPTER VI: 42
• CHAPTER VII: 43
• May regulate weight and quality of bread 100 May create and regulate police 101 May suppress riots etc 102 May prevent etc horse racing abuse of ...: 44
• Barred debts cannot be compromised 140 141 Bonds exempt from taxation and may be used to pay certain taxes Bonds when executed must be regis...: 45
• May establish pounds: 60
• May tax etc dogs: 61
• May abate nuisances 108 May do etc to promote health and suppress diseases 109 Sanitary regulations by cities and counties: 62
• Penalty for failure to make report: 80
• CHAPTER X: 87
• validating: 95
• May compel the cleansing of premises: 110
• May direct the location of certain establishments: 111
• May regulate the burial of the dead: 112
• May define nuisances and punish persons guilty thereof: 113
• CHAPTER XVI: 118
• CHAPTER XVII: 122
• Suit against owner of property for improvement tax when: 126
• Condemnation of property: 127
• Duty of railway company penalty: 128
• CHAPTER XVIII: 130
• Occupation license to be suspended or revoked etc when: 132
• TOWNS AND VILLAGES: 141
• May be incorporated when 276 Towns and villages incorporated when: 142
• ABOLITION OF CORPORATE EXISTENCE 317 Abolition of corporation provided 318 Petition and election to abolish 319 Qualified voters at suc...: 159
• CHAPTER XXI: 162
• CHAPTER XXII: 167
• CHAPTER XXIII: 170
• Debt shall not be created unless provision made to pay same: 177
• Poll: 178
• Occupation: 179
• Occupations subject to taxation: 180
• Same subject: 181
• COUNTIES AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT CHAPTER XXVII: 182
• Law governing other elections shall govern this: 188
• CHAPTER XXVIII: 190
• CHAPTER XXIX: 195
• CHAPTER XXX: 202
• Oath and bond of surveyors 407 Field notes to be returned and recorded 408 In absence of one surveyor the other shall act 409 Commissioner of La...: 204
• Expense to be divided between counties 411 Land districts to be surveyed 412 Suit to establish boundary line: 205
• COUNTY SEATSCOUNTY BOUNDARIES 413 Election for county seats 414 Twothirds vote necessary when to create 415 Election for removal of ...: 207
• CHAPTER XXXII: 213
• Claims shall be numbered in what order 463 Order in which claims shall be paid 464 Classification of county funds 465 Commissioners court may cr...: 214
• Report of committee 481 Pay of committee 482 All reports shall be sworn: 229
• COUNTY AND OTHER BONDS 485 Courthouse jail and bridge bonds authorized 486 To run not exceeding forty years redeemable when 487 488 ...: 230
• No bonds to run longer than forty years 526 Conditions precedent to issuance of bonds 527 Bonds to be registered by Comptroller 528 Certificate of...: 231
• 899: 239
• Collector liable for failing to collect tax and when to be appointed by Governor 506 Compromise by vote of the people notice of election how given: 240
• Taxes levied how applied 508 By whom assessed and collected 509 Collector to give bond 510 Money received and paid out by treasurer 511 Collec...: 241
• Bonds how executed and expenses paid 513 Internal improvement bonds how adjusted and paid 514 Bonds sold and exchanged: 242
• Authority for executing bonds and terms and conditions of same 516 Regulating taxes for interest and sinking fund: 243
• Collector liable on bond for failure of duty new collector appointed 518 519: 244
• 521: 245
• when: 246
• Official paper and contract for publishing: 247
• Statement of receipts and expenditures etc shall be published annually: 248
• Ordinances when and how published: 249
• CHAPTER XXXV: 256
• CHAPTER XXXVI: 259
• CHAPTER XXXVII: 265
• CHAPTER XXXVIII: 267
• Duty as to school land 595 Shall provide seals for district and county court 596 Court may publish notices: 274
• CHAPTER XXXIX: 275
• Methods of extending limits of town or village: 277
• County judge to order election to determine: 278
• Officer appointed to hold elections: 279
• Qualification of electors: 280
• Penalty for obstructing ditch 640 Law cumulative 640a Act to apply to drainage only: 281
• CHAPTER XLII: 297
• Drainage commissioner shall acquire right of way 679 Public property of drainage district 680 Penalty for interfering with drainage ditches etc 681 P...: 298
• CHAPTER XLIII: 323
• CHAPTER XLIV: 329
• CHAPTER XLV: 331
• Voters may provide ballots when 769 Ballots number to be furnished 770 Name of candidate on ballot 771 School elections ballots to be used 772 B...: 332
• Application of act 811 Independent candidate for county city or town office: 333
• No ballot to be counted unless: 361
• Refreshments when how and what may be taken 799 Counting of ballots 800 Announcement of votes cast how made: 362
• Only one person at a time to occupy booth assisting voter 802 Officer of election failing to attend procedure in case of 803 Electioneering within one...: 363
• Voters cannot be carried to voting place in vehicles except etc 805 No intoxicating liquors to be sold or given away in precinct on election day nor ta...: 364
• CHAPTER XLVI: 367
• Acts 1909: 374
• CHAPTER L: 386
• Assessments may be made for completion of canal when All property in district to be assessed Powers of board to collect taxes 886 May prescribe rul...: 387
• Election to be held to determine whether change shall be made 926 Majority vote to control 927 Copy of order making change to be filed in county ...: 388
• CHAPTER LI: 424
• Report of engineer 981 How funds shall be drawn for the payment of expenses 982 Report of navigation commissioners 983 Assistant engineer may ...: 425
• Same: 429
• Same: 430
• CHAPTER LII: 445
• Duties of county treasurer 1021 Taxes how collected 1022 County treasurer shall execute good and sufficient bond 1023 District shall have right of e...: 446
• CHAPTER LIII: 470
• Duty of county superintendent 1079 County superintendent shall qualify how 1080 Shall approve vouchers 1081 Salary of county superintendent 1...: 471
• Scholastic age 1141 Sectarian schools 1142 Manual training 1143 Conveyances and bequests 1144 Formation and change of common school district...: 472
• Shall determine how schools are to be maintained 1168 Shall contract with teachers 1169 Shall fix salaries of teachers 1170 Salaries how paid 1171 ...: 473
• Independent school district trustees 1211 Ballots to be used 1212 Term of office of trustees 1213 County judge shall order first election 1214 Trustee...: 474
• Certain powers of court specified: 577
• Power to levy: 578
• Certain tax shall not exceed: 579
• Tax shall not be levied except: 580
• Seal of the court: 601
• May purchase and own property without limits for construction: 616
• Commissioners court may establish drainage districts: 641
• How districts may be established validating: 642
• Hearing by commissioners court on petition: 643
• When court may grant petition: 644
• May appoint civil engineer: 645
• Authority of drainage commissioners: 688
• Who may vote in city or town elections: 723
• Proceedings where vote challenged 24 Proceedings in case of tie vote etc 25 Who are eligible to office of mayor and aldermen 26 Vacancy how fille...: 751
• Election etc in such case how conducted 29 City council composed of mayor and aldermen: 752
• May establish etc workhouses 115 May compel convicts to labor on streets etc 116 May regulate hiring of convicts 117 May prevent trespasses etc a...: 753
• Power of city council to provide for assessing taxes: 754
• Rules for condemning property for railroad followed: 756
• Ten per cent of qualified voters may petition etc 336 Who shall be qualified voters ballot 337 Election officers declaring result etc 338 Election of m...: 757
• Shall prescribe character of materials used within or beyond limits: 758
• Style of ordinances 252 Ordinances etc remain in force until etc 253 Fines etc to be paid into city treasury 254 None but resident voters eligible to o...: 759
• Tickets written or printed 282 Returns of election 283 Duty of county judge to make entry etc when 284 Powers of corporation 285 Election of may...: 760
• Power to fill certain vacancies 582 How vacancy shall be filled: 762
• Shall send indigent sick to hospital when: 763
• CHAPTER XLI: 764
• Commissioners may advertise and contract for labor: 765
• Accounts shall be opened how and shall be indexed 433 Account of tax collector 434 Receipt of collector for tax rolls 435 How the collector may dis...: 769
• No credit shall be entered for delinquent taxes until allowed by the court 438 Taxes for each year shall be kept separate 439 Collector going out of of...: 770
• Monthly reports shall be filed when 484 Warrants issued against county by judge or court shall be attested by clerk: 771
• Acts of 1897: 772
• Oath of viewers: 773
• How civil engineer shall qualify 647 Duties of engineer: 778
• Rights of private individuals: 779
• Bonds to be registered in Comptrollers office how and effect of Assessment of taxes and compensation of assessor Surplus fund how applied County ...: 788
• Scholastic census 1098 Census enumeration and transfers 1099 Transfer after enrollment 1100 Same subject 1101 Consolidation of districts 1102 Se...: 795
• Towns and villages may condemn right of way of railway company: 802
• Collection of license tax 184 Real estate includes what 185 Personal estate includes what 186 City council may provide for exemption of property fro...: 803
• When voter moves to another precinct in county or to another county: 806
• When minor becomes of age on or before election day may vote when 746 Collector may administer oath 747 Persons absent from October first unti...: 807
• How druggists may sell intoxicating liquors on election day 807 Announcement of votes during counting of ballots 808 Returns to be delivered to co...: 808

Bibliographic information

• Title: Texas Municipal Corporation Laws, Annotated: Including Forms for the Issuance of Bonds
• Editor: James Thomas Sluder
• Contributor: Texas
• Publisher: Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, printers, 1909
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 5, 2007
• Length: 810 pages