Opinion No.

The Honorable Gary L. Walker Chair, Committee on Land and Resource Management Texas House of Representatives P.O. Box 2910 Austin, Texas 78768-2910

Re: Legal effects of groundwater conservation district election held in Bosque, Comanche, and Erath counties (RQ-0557-JC)

Dear Representative Walker:

You ask the status of a county that elects to join the Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, but does not vote to grant taxing authority to the district.1 As we read the act that created the district, that county is a part of the district. See Act of May 25, 2001, 77th Leg., R.S., ch. 1362,…