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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 715.004

CONTENTS OF PETITION

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff

(a) A petition filed by a nonprofit corporation under this chapter must contain a legal description of the real property comprising the historic cemetery and must aver to the court that:

(1) the nonprofit corporation, through its members and incorporators, has a religious, ethnic, historic, or cultural relationship to the cemetery;

(2) the cemetery was established more than 75 years before the date the action was commenced;

(3) a viable organization of plot owners of the cemetery does not exist; and

(4) the cemetery threatens or endangers the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare.

(b) The petition must be accompanied by the written plan described by Section 715.005.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.