Tex. Local Government Code § 572.056
PETITION AND REFERENDUM
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- Tex. Local Government Code § 572.056, PETITION AND REFERENDUM, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/694457
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(a) If, before the date set for the adoption of a concurrent ordinance that creates a public utility agency or adds a public entity to an agency, 10 percent of the registered voters of a public entity required to publish notice of the creation or addition present a petition to the governing body of the entity requesting that a referendum be called, the ordinance may not take effect unless a majority of the qualified voters of the entity voting in the election have approved the ordinance.
(b) The public entity must hold the election in conformity with:
(1) the Election Code;
(2) Chapter 1251, Government Code; and
(3) this subchapter.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (a), a concurrent ordinance is not subject to a referendum.