City of Round Rock v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plat approval is governmental function and stating, “We have generally held ministerial acts which could be performed by a private subcontractor to be proprietary functions.”
• stating that platting regulation promotes orderly development of the community and safe subdivision construction
• stating that platting regulation promotes orderly development of the community and safe subdivision construction
• determining the purpose of platting and subdivision regulations was to “ensure that subdivisions are safely constructed and to promote the orderly development of the community”
• court held approval of subdivision plat was governmental act and city was immune where homeowners sued city under common law for property damage after homes flooded due to allegedly negligent approval of subdivision plat
• maintenance of storm sewer is proprietary function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).