Texas Property Tax Code §42 — Your Right to Appeal, Your Right to Be Heard

Texas Tax Code Section 42 is the heart of your right to fight back.

It gives every Texas property owner the legal power to appeal ARB decisions, challenge unequal taxation, and demand transparency.

Section 42 is where your due process begins.

Under §42, you are entitled to:

• A fair and meaningful appeal

• A right to present evidence

• A right to challenge wrongful valuations

• A right to stand before a neutral court

• A right to judicial review

• A right to correct government errors

Texas Tax Code §42 is supposed to give you the pathway to justice when the appraisal district gets it wrong.

But here’s the truth:

Due process isn’t real unless the system honors it.

When ARB boards rush hearings, ignore evidence, or rubber-stamp values, they violate not only §42 —

they violate your constitutional rights.

Because the Texas Constitution guarantees something deeper:

Article 1, Section 19 — The Due Course of Law Clause

This is Texas’ version of Due Process.

It says:

“No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities… except by due course of the law of the land.”

That means:

• Hearings must be fair

• Procedures must be honest

• Government cannot take property in a rushed or abusive way

• Taxation must follow law and fairness

When §42 is ignored, Article 1, Section 19 is violated.

This is the constitutional core of the property tax fight —

the very foundation of everything I am defending.