(A) (1) Any owner, lienholder or mortgagee of record jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of a Commission may present a petition to a district court, as provided by Tex. Local Gov’t Code § 54.039, setting forth that the decision is illegal, in whole or in part, and specifying the grounds of the illegality.
(2) Costs may not be allowed against the Commission panel.
(B) If the decision of the Commission panel is affirmed or not substantially reversed, but only modified, the District Court shall allow to the city all attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred by it and shall enter a judgment for those items, which may be entered against the property owners as well as all persons found to be in occupation of the property subject to the proceedings before the Commission panel.
(1998 Code, § 22-309) (Ord. 04-35, passed 9-1-2004)