(a) An award of an arbitration board may be reviewed by a district court for the judicial district in which the municipality is located only on the grounds that:
(1) the arbitration board was without jurisdiction;
(2) the arbitration board exceeded its jurisdiction;
(3) the order is not supported by competent, material, and substantial evidence on the whole record; or
(4) the order was obtained by fraud, collusion, or similar unlawful means.
(b) The pendency of a review proceeding does not automatically stay enforcement of the arbitration board’s order.

Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 174.253

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
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