Texas Special District Local Laws Code Chapter 8140 – East Montgomery County Municipal Utility Districts
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- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Month: means a calendar month. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Succeeding: means immediately following. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.