DEDICATION
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Pinebrook Properties, Ltd. v. Brookhaven Lake Property Owners Ass'n (2002)
Most recently applied in Michael J. McCulloch Kathleen M. McCulloch and Alice McCollum, Individually and D/B/A Osoba Ranch v. Brewster County, Texas (December 2012)
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) For purposes of this chapter, a dedication must be:
(1) an explicit voluntary grant of the use of a private road for public purposes; and
(2) communicated in writing to the commissioners court of the county in which the real property is located.
(b) An oral dedication or intent to dedicate by overt act is not sufficient to establish a public interest in a private road under this chapter.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.