Model Rules Checklist (2004) - County Version

The checklist below is to be used during a county's review of a proposed residential subdivision plat to help determine whether the requirements of the Model Rules have been met. Under authority set out in § 16.343 of the Texas Water Code, the Texas Water Development Board adopted the Model Subdivision Rules to assure that residential developments have water and wastewater facilities meeting minimum state standards. As revised 2/10/2000 and updated 2/10/2004 and codified in Chapter 364 of Title 31 of the Texas Administrative Code, the rules apply in Texas counties near the Texas-Mexico border and in various economically-distressed counties elsewhere in Texas.

Many cities in these counties have also adopted the Model Rules verbatim (except for a few modifications to substitute the city for the county), and this checklist can be used, with slight modification here and there, by those cities. Other cities have instead incorporated into their subdivision ordinances provisions basically equivalent to the Model Rules (as provided in 31 TAC 364.90-.91), and pertinent parts of this checklist can be adapted for their use.

Note that this checklist is limited to requirements under the Model Rules. It does not attempt to include platting requirements under the Texas Local Government Code (see especially Chapter 232 for counties, and Chapter 212 for cities) or other state laws or local platting rules.

GUIDE TO USING THE CHECKLIST

This checklist assumes that the county has kept a list or "log" of the documents submitted during the review of the subdivision. The log should have a short description of each document, the date it was received, the logger's initials, and a unique sequential number (the log #) for that document. A form for such a log appears after the end of this checklist.

At the end of each checklist item is a reference to the section(s) of the Model Rules (as contained in 31 TAC Chapter 364) related to that item. Next to each item on this checklist are four spaces to be filled in. The status of an item is "YES," "INC" (for "Incomplete"), "NO" (or blank), or "NA" (for "Not Applicable"). The second blank should be filled in with the log number(s) (taken from the county's log) of the document(s) submitted by the applicant containing the information pertaining to that checklist requirement. The initials of the county official making the particular status determination and the date of that determination go in the last two columns. Some checklist items apply only under specific conditions, which are italicized below for emphasis.

CONTENTS

• Applicability


• Alternate Criteria for Land Subdivided Prior to Sept. 1, 1989


• Number of Dwelling Units Per Lot


• Setbacks


• Final Engineering Report - General Contents


• Water Facilities: Minimum Standards and Additional Final Engineering Report Contents Under Various Service Options


• Wastewater Facilities: Minimum Standards and Additional Final Engineering Report Contents Under Various Service Options


• Sludge Disposal


• Additional Information (Optional with County)


• Financial Guarantees: General Requirement, Alternative Guarantee with City, Amount, Form of Bond, Form of Letter of Credit


• Plat Approval: Application, Review, Further Prerequisites to Approval, Disapproval


• Extension of Operability Date

LOG OF ITEMS SUBMITTED DURING SUBDIVISION REVIEW

Name of Subdivision: ___________________________________________ Page ________

[This form lists the documents submitted during the process of seeking subdivision approval. The county official receiving a document should upon its receipt fill out and initial an entry for the item and then write the log number on the document. If needed, use more than one line for the description.]