Sec. 375.024. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE. (a) The commission or authorized person shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality in which the proposed district is located once a week for two consecutive weeks. The first publication must occur not later than the 31st day before the date on which the hearing will be held.

(b) The commission or authorized person shall also mail a copy of the notice to each county in which the proposed district is located if the county has formally requested notice of the creation of each district in the county.

(c) A municipality may request that it receive during a year notice of hearings on the creation of a district by filing a request with the commission during January of the year. The municipality's request must state the names and mailing addresses of not more than two persons to whom the commission shall send the notice on behalf of the municipality.

(d) A certificate of a representative of the commission that notice was mailed to each county in which the proposed district is located that had formally requested notice is conclusive evidence that notice was properly mailed to each county.

(e) Not later than the 30th day before the date of the hearing, the petitioner shall send the notice of the hearing by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each person who owns real property in the proposed district, according to the most recent certified county property tax rolls, other than a property owner who signed the petition for creation. The tax assessor and collector shall certify from the tax rolls ownership of property on the date the petition is filed with the commission.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 13.05(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.