Sec. 372.010. IMPROVEMENT ORDER. (a) During the six-month period after the date of the final adjournment of the hearing under Section 372.009, the governing body of the municipality or county may authorize an improvement district if, by majority vote of all members of the governing body, the members adopt a resolution authorizing the district in accordance with its finding as to the advisability of the improvement.

(b) An authorization takes effect when it has been published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or county. If any part of the improvement district is located in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction or if any part of the improvements is to be undertaken in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction, the authorization does not take effect until the notice is also given one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the part of the extraterritorial jurisdiction in which the district is located or in which the improvements are to be undertaken.

(c) Actual construction of an improvement may not begin until after the 20th day after the date the authorization takes effect and may not begin if during that 20-day period written protests signed by at least two-thirds of the owners of record of property within the improvement district or by the owners of record of property comprising at least two-thirds of the total area of the district are filed with the municipal or county secretary or other officer performing the duties of the municipal or county secretary. A person whose name appears on a protest may withdraw the name from the protest at any time before the governing body of the municipality or county convenes to determine the sufficiency of the protest.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, Sec. 76(g), eff. Aug. 28, 1989; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1341, Sec. 9, eff. June 16, 2001.