TX rule pack

Right-of-way and eminent domain acquisition in Texas.

Texas runs a precise sequence: Landowner's Bill of Rights, written initial offer, a 30-day wait, a written appraisal, a final offer that meets or beats it, and at least 14 days for the owner to respond. Chapter 21 also uses four different time units in one procedure: business days, calendar days, working days, and plain days. A tracker that counts them the same way will be wrong on some of them.

What the Texas rule pack does

Deadlines derived per parcel

The pack turns Texas procedural requirements into concrete dates and required steps on each tract, so the clock is visible before a date slips rather than after.

Every rule carries its citation

Each requirement traces back to the statute it came from, and each pack is versioned, so you can see which version of the rules a parcel was worked under.

Counsel approves before it goes out

Offers, notices, and filings route to attorneys through review gates. The platform prepares the work; counsel decides what is sent.

A record built as you work

Every offer, notice, appraisal, and approval lands in the audit trail as it happens, so each parcel carries a complete binder if the taking heads to condemnation.

Texas: what the statute actually says

Where the Texas calendar gets dangerous

Chapter 21 uses four different time units in one procedure.

Business days for the appraisal disclosure owed before a special commissioners' hearing, which is due no later than the third business day before the hearing. Calendar days, expressly, for the appointment of special commissioners: the court appoints not later than the 30th calendar day after the petition is filed. Working days for the commissioners' filing and the clerk's notice: the commissioners file their decision on the day it is made or the next working day, and the clerk sends notice no later than the next working day after it is filed. Plain days for everything else.

Then Tex. R. Civ. P. 4 applies on top: exclude the day of the triggering event, and if the last day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday the period runs to the end of the next day that is none of those.

A tracker that counts all of those the same way will be wrong on some of them.

Tex. Prop. Code §21.0111(a-1)
Tex. Prop. Code §21.014(a)
Tex. Prop. Code §§21.048, 21.049
Tex. R. Civ. P. 4

The offer sequence has teeth

A bona fide offer requires a written initial offer, a final offer made on or after the 30th day after it, a final offer at or above the amount of the written appraisal the entity obtained, and at least 14 days for the owner to respond.

If a court determines the condemnor did not make a bona fide offer, the statute is not permissive. The court shall abate the suit, order the condemnor to make a bona fide offer, and order it to pay costs and the owner's reasonable attorney's and professional fees directly related to the violation.

Tex. Prop. Code §21.0113(b)
Tex. Prop. Code §21.047(d)

Statutes the Texas pack is built on

Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 21
Tex. Const. Art. I §17
Tex. Gov't Code Ch. 2206
Tex. Prop. Code §21.0111
Tex. Prop. Code §21.0112
Tex. Prop. Code §21.0113
Tex. Prop. Code §21.021

This page is not legal advice. It describes what the Texas rule pack tracks inside LandGrantIQ, and it summarizes published statutes and decisions with the source attached so you can read them yourself. It does not tell you what any of it requires of your project, it is no substitute for your own counsel's judgment, and no part of it creates an attorney-client relationship. Filings always require attorney review and approval.

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