Texas § AG.201.048 - ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE
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§ AG.201.048. ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE. (a) The secretary of state shall examine the application for a certificate of organization and the statement of the state board. If the secretary of state finds that the name proposed for the conservation district is not identical to that of another conservation district or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion or uncertainty, the secretary shall receive the application and statement, file them, and record them in an appropriate book of record in the secretary's office. (b) If the secretary of state finds that the name proposed for the conservation district is identical to that of another conservation district or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion or uncertainty, the secretary shall certify that fact to the state board and the state board shall submit to the secretary a new name for the conservation district that is free of that defect. After receipt of a name that is free of that defect, the secretary shall record the application and statement, with the modified name, in an appropriate book of record in the secretary's office. (c) When the application and statement are filed and recorded as provided by this section, the conservation district constitutes a governmental subdivision and a public body corporate and politic. (d) The secretary of state shall make and issue to the directors a certificate, under the state seal, of the due organization of the conservation district. The secretary shall record the certificate with the application and statement. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1468, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 300, Sec. 24, eff. Aug. 30, 1993.
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