Oquendo & Company

Standards

Four rules, stated in advance and applied without discretion. They are what makes a record verifiable.

Rules

  1. I

    Count

    The only arithmetic permitted is a comparison of two filed figures, each cited to the document it was filed in. No figure is derived, adjusted, normalised, projected or combined. Where a comparison cannot be made from two filed figures, none is made.

  2. II

    Citing

    This rule governs the finding — the two statuses and every criterion row beneath them — and not every sentence on a page. Each finding states the rule applied and the filed figure it was applied to, with the primary document named. No finding says what a filing means for a project: that is the reader’s question and their counsel’s, and the finding states what was filed and stops.

  3. III

    Missing Filings

    Where the filed record is silent, the silence is reported as silence. An absent filing is never read as an assurance, and the scope that was not examined is stated on the face of every record.

  4. IV

    Identification

    No letter of intent, no will-serve conversation, no broker account, and no figure a party supplied about itself. If it cannot be pointed to on a public docket, it is not in the record.

What may accompany an Extract: the Publisher’s view

A separately headed Publisher’s view may accompany a finding. It is the Publisher’s opinion on the filed record — the Publisher’s own reading of the documents cited in the finding — and it is headed separately so that a reader may take the finding without it. It is bounded by the Terms in force for the record it accompanies and by the standing sentence printed on the extract itself, and it is never an engineering opinion, never a certification that a parcel is fit to close on, and never a rating or score.

This provision is not a fifth rule. The rules above are four, and a Publisher’s view governs nothing that enters the record.

Infrastructure Defined

The word is bounded, not general. The record carries four classes, and each is bounded by the register a named authority keeps under a named statute or rule. Where a class is not named below, it is not carried.

  1. Power

    Public Utility Commission of Texas; Electric Reliability Council of Texas

    Utilities Code ch. 37 (Certificates of Convenience and Necessity)

    Certificates of convenience and necessity for transmission, and the applications, amendments and proceedings filed against them, together with the council’s own planning record and its large-load interconnection record, as the council publishes them.

  2. Water

    Public Utility Commission of Texas; Groundwater Conservation Districts

    Water Code ch. 13 (Water Rates and Services); Water Code ch. 36 (Groundwater Conservation Districts)

    Retail water certificates of convenience and necessity and the proceedings filed against them; and, where a district has been created, the district of record for a parcel together with the rules it has adopted and published.

  3. Wastewater

    Public Utility Commission of Texas; Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

    Water Code ch. 13 (Water Rates and Services); Water Code ch. 26 (Water Quality Control); Title 30, Texas Administrative Code (chapter not verified)

    Sewer certificates of convenience and necessity and the proceedings filed against them, and the discharge and disposal authorisations the commission issues, amends and enforces under its own rules.

  4. Land

    The County; The State of Texas

    As filed with the county and the state

    The parcel geometry of record, membership in a special district, and extraterritorial jurisdiction, each as filed — never as described by a party.

Currently Unavailable

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    Gas and Pipelines

    Certificated and permitted gas and pipeline records are kept by the Railroad Commission of Texas. The record does not carry them, and a page of this record that is silent on gas is silent because gas is outside its boundary.

  2. —

    Telecommunications and Broadband

    Not carried. No telecommunications or broadband register is read, and no absence of a filing in those registers is reported here.

  3. —

    Transportation

    Highway, corridor and right-of-way records are kept by the Texas Department of Transportation. They are outside the boundary, and nothing on this site should be read as a statement about access, frontage or a planned facility.

  4. —

    Distribution-Level Assets

    Below the certificated or permitted grain — a line, a main, a lift station, a lateral, a service drop — nothing is carried. Those assets are not certificated or permitted as such, so there is no filed record of them to compile, and their absence here is not evidence that they exist or that they do not.

Criteria

Each criterion is deterministic. It reads named registers, tests one condition, and states whether a record was identified under it. There is no discretion in it: no criterion is scored, ranked, or traded off against another, and none is combined with another into a single figure.

  1. I

    Filed Transmission Projects and Filed Study Megawatts

    Reads

    • ERCOT Transmission Project and Information Tracking (TPIT) workbook
    • ERCOT Large Load Interconnection Status Report

    If

    If the serving substation appears in no filed transmission project, at any tier, through the plan horizon, and the parcel’s load zone and transmission service provider carry filed large-load study megawatts at the pre-approval stages,

    Then

    The record states: Record identified under this criterion, naming the record relied on.

    Otherwise

    The record states: No record identified under this criterion.

    Refusal

    The criterion refuses where the serving substation is not named in any filed document, or where either register was last read outside its stated cadence. The refusal and its reason are printed; nothing is stated for the criterion.

  2. II

    Groundwater Production for the Class of Use

    Reads

    • Groundwater conservation district rules, permit actions and posted agendas
    • Texas Water Development Board groundwater district boundaries

    If

    If the parcel lies inside a groundwater conservation district whose filed production rule caps non-exempt industrial draw below the class of use, or a moratorium on new non-exempt permits is on file,

    Then

    The record states: Record identified under this criterion, naming the record relied on.

    Otherwise

    The record states: No record identified under this criterion.

    Refusal

    The criterion refuses where the district publishes no rule text in a fixed form, or where the parcel falls on a district boundary the filed boundary record does not resolve. The district and the reason are named. Until the class-of-use standard is settled, the criterion refuses inside every district and says so; it is not yet applied.

  3. III

    Retail Water and Sewer Service Boundaries

    Reads

    • Public Utility Commission of Texas water CCN boundaries (16 TAC Chapter 24)
    • Public Utility Commission of Texas sewer CCN boundaries (16 TAC Chapter 24)
    • Public Utility Commission of Texas Interchange filings

    If

    If the parcel lies outside every filed water or sewer CCN boundary and no CCN application covering it is pending,

    Then

    The record states: Record identified under this criterion, naming the record relied on.

    Otherwise

    The record states: No record identified under this criterion.

    Refusal

    The criterion refuses where the filed boundary record for the county carries a gap over the parcel, so that outside-every-boundary and outside-the-record cannot be told apart. The gap is stated as a gap.

  4. IV

    Reported Flow against Permitted Flow

    Reads

    • TCEQ TPDES permits and pending applications
    • EPA NPDES discharge monitoring reports

    If

    If the wastewater permit held by the retail sewer utility whose filed CCN boundary covers the parcel reports, in its filed discharge monitoring reports, an average daily flow at or above 90 percent of the average daily flow stated on the face of that permit, a ratio whose 90 percent figure is the Commission's own at 30 TAC §305.126, in each of three consecutive reported months, and no application for expansion of that permitted flow appears on file in any of those months,

    Then

    The record states: Record identified under this criterion, naming the record relied on.

    Otherwise

    The record states: No record identified under this criterion.

    Refusal

    The criterion refuses where fewer than three consecutive months of reported flow are on file for the serving permit, or where the certificated sewer map could not be read, so that no permit can be identified from the record. Where the map is read and no certificated sewer utility covers the parcel, the criterion has no subject and states so; that is stated as no subject, not a refusal. The months on file are counted and stated.

What a Criterion States

Record identified under this criterion

The record relied on is named on the face of the document. The wording describes what the monitored dockets were found to contain under that one criterion, not the parcel. No record issued here carries an overall status, a rating or a score (operator ruling 2026-09-19).

No record identified under this criterion

In the monitored dockets, as of the stated timestamp. This is a statement about the dockets that were read. It is not a finding that a parcel is developable or serviceable, and it states nothing about physical feasibility, which is a question for licensed engineering counsel.

Editorial Code

The standing procedures of Oquendo & Company, gathered in one statement so that a reader, an opposing party or a client’s counsel can read them together and hold the Company to them. Each is in force on the date above and is amended only by a dated entry in the corrections register.

  1. I

    Verification

    Every record published can be checked against the issuing authority’s own register by any reader, without asking the Company for anything. The procedure is stated in full, with a worked example, at how to verify this record; it is not restated here, because a standard that exists in two wordings has two standards.

  2. II

    Method

    The method is the four rules and the four criteria stated above, applied without discretion and published in advance of the record they govern. The rules in force for a record are the rules published on the date that record was sealed.

  3. III

    Independence

    Oquendo & Company does not accept compensation, data-sharing agreements, or access-tiering from any utility, seller, broker, or power trader.

  4. IV

    Conflict of Interest and Recusal

    Oquendo & Company holds no ownership, option, lease, easement, royalty, contingent fee, or other direct economic interest in any parcel, corridor, utility, authority or counterparty it records, and no person acting for the Company holds one. Securities held passively through a diversified fund, index or retirement account over which neither the Company nor any person acting for it exercises investment discretion are not such an interest; any directly held security of a party to a matter in the record is, and is disposed of or the matter is recused. It accepts no gift, hospitality, travel, meal or thing of value from any party to a matter in the record, of any amount, at any time.

    Where a conflict arises notwithstanding, it is stated on the face of the record entry it touches, in the entry itself and not in a schedule elsewhere, and that entry is compiled and read before publication by a person other than the Publisher, engaged for that entry and independent of the conflict. A conflict is never cured by declining to publish: the entry is published, and the conflict is published with it.

  5. V

    Pre-Publication Review

    No publication or extract is published, issued or sealed without review by the Publisher. A failure of this procedure is itself a correction, entered in the register on the date it is found.

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Terms of Use

Definitions

“Oquendo & Company,” “the Company”
Oquendo & Company, a Texas limited liability company.
“You”
The person or entity using this Site, and, where a request has been placed, the person or entity placing the request.
“Site”
This public website and everything the Company makes available on it.

1Acceptance & Scope

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of this public website and all content, records, compilations, editions, and marks the Company makes available on it (collectively, the “Site”), provided by Oquendo & Company (the “Company”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms; if you do not agree, do not use the Site. You represent that you are at least 18 years old.

These Terms govern use of the public Site only. Any paid request is offered solely under a separate written agreement furnished at the time of the request. Nothing on the Site is an offer to contract and nothing here entitles you to, or forms a contract for, any request.

2Nature of the Site — Statements of Opinion

Oquendo & Company compiles the Texas Infrastructure Ledger — dated compilations of the filed public record — and applies to them deterministic criteria published in advance at /therecord. Each Extract the Company issues states only what was on file with a named authority as of a stated timestamp, cites the primary document, and carries its exclusions on its face. No Extract the Company issues states, estimates, or implies the physical capacity, headroom, thermal rating, or deliverability of any facility or system, and no Extract the Company issues states when service will be available. No Extract the Company issues is financial, investment, engineering, insurance, legal, or other professional advice, nor a recommendation to take or refrain from any action, and they are not a guarantee, warranty, or assurance of any outcome, condition, or future performance.

NO EXTRACT THE COMPANY ISSUES IS AN APPRAISAL OR STATES ANY OPINION OF VALUE, AND NO EXTRACT THE COMPANY ISSUES IS THE PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING. NO ENGINEERING JUDGMENT, DESIGN, SURVEY, OR CERTIFICATION IS OFFERED OR IMPLIED, AND NO EXTRACT THE COMPANY ISSUES EVALUATES, DESIGNS, OR CERTIFIES THE ADEQUACY, SAFETY, OR FITNESS OF ANY FACILITY, SYSTEM, OR WORKS.

The Company’s records are produced with the material assistance of an automated system, and findings are determined by the deterministic rules published at /therecord.

3No Reliance

Each record reflects information on file as of its stated date and may change without notice. Each is issued for general information only.

NO PERSON MAY RELY ON ANY EXTRACT OR OTHER MATERIAL PUBLISHED ON THE SITE AS THE BASIS FOR ANY DECISION, AND OQUENDO & COMPANY OWES NO DUTY OF CARE TO ANY READER OR OTHER PERSON.

This provision governs the public Site and its published records. A report issued under a paid request is a separate publication, issued to the party who requests it on the terms of the agreement for that request; its scope of reliance is stated in Standing & Reliance.

4Corrections

If the Company identifies an error in the public record it cited, the Company may publish a corrected edition speaking as of a new stated date. A correction is a re-publication, not a revision of what came before: each edition speaks only as of its own date. Nothing in this creates a duty to monitor, update, or supplement any edition the Company has already issued.

5License & Intellectual Property

The Site, including all text, records, methodologies, compilations, and marks, is owned by Oquendo & Company and protected by intellectual-property and trade-secret law. Subject to these Terms, the Company grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view the Site for your internal, non-commercial reference. You may not copy, redistribute, resell, publicly display, frame, scrape, data-mine, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works from the Site, or use it to train any model, except as expressly authorized in writing.

6Acceptable Use

You agree not to (a) access the Site by automated means except a conforming search-engine crawler; (b) interfere with or probe the Site’s security or infrastructure; (c) misrepresent any record or strip it of its date, context, or disclaimers; or (d) use the Site in violation of any law.

7Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. OQUENDO & COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR RELIABILITY OF ANY EXTRACT OR OTHER MATERIAL PUBLISHED ON THE SITE. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE.

8Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OQUENDO & COMPANY AND ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OQUENDO & COMPANY’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

This Section governs the public Site. Liability for a paid request is governed by the agreement for that request. Nothing in this Section limits liability that cannot be limited under Texas law, including under Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 17.

9Governing Law & Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 10, the exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction.

10Dispute Resolution — Arbitration & Class Waiver

ANY DISPUTE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION GOVERNED BY THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT, ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION UNDER ITS COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES — OR, WHERE THE CLAIMANT IS A NATURAL PERSON USING THE SITE FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY, OR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES, ITS CONSUMER ARBITRATION RULES — AND SEATED IN TEXAS. YOU AND OQUENDO & COMPANY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If the American Arbitration Association is unavailable, a court may appoint an administrator or arbitrator under 9 U.S.C. § 5. Either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property. You may opt out of this Section by written notice to the address below within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. If the class, collective, or representative-action waiver is held unenforceable as to any claim, this entire Section 10 is void as to that claim only, which then proceeds in the courts identified in Section 9; the remainder of this Section stays in force.

11Changes

The Company may modify these Terms by posting a revised version bearing a new version identifier and effective date. A revision applies only prospectively; your continued use of the Site after the stated effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised version. The Company retains each superseded version and will furnish it on request.

12General

If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect and the unenforceable provision is reformed to the minimum extent necessary. These Terms are the entire agreement regarding the Site and supersede prior understandings. No waiver is implied by any failure to enforce. You may not assign these Terms; the Company may. The disclaimers and limitations survive termination.

13Contact

Oquendo & Company — contact@oquendoandco.com.

© 2026 Oquendo and Company. All rights reserved.

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Privacy Notice

1Scope

This notice describes how Oquendo & Company (the “Company”) handles personal data of visitors to this website. The Company’s records are built from public infrastructure data about places, not people; the Company collects little personal data and does not build consumer profiles.

2Information the Company Collects

The Company collects only (a) information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, the county and parcel identifiers you submit when you request a Screen, and anything you choose to write to the Company; and (b) limited technical data your browser sends (such as IP address, request metadata, a session fingerprint and an edge request identifier), kept in an access log used for security and to operate the site. The Company does not sell this data and does not use it for targeted advertising.

3How the Company Uses Information

The Company uses personal data to respond to your inquiries, provide and secure the Site, comply with law, and maintain records. The Company retains it only as long as necessary for these purposes; records of a transaction, including your assent to terms, are retained for so long as a claim arising from it may be brought.

4Sharing

The Company shares personal data only with service providers acting on the Company’s behalf under contract (for example, email and website-hosting providers, and a payment processor that handles card details directly; the Company does not receive or store your full card number), or where required by law. The Company does not sell personal data, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it for profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

5Sensitive Data

The Company does not request or knowingly process sensitive personal data, and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18.

6Your Texas Privacy Rights

If you are a Texas resident, you have the right to confirm whether the Company processes your personal data; to access, correct, or delete it; to obtain a portable copy; and to opt out of any sale, targeted advertising, or qualifying profiling. To exercise these rights, email contact@oquendoandco.com. The Company will verify and respond within 45 days. If the Company declines, you may appeal by replying to that decision; the Company will respond to the appeal in writing within 60 days. If the appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to the Texas Attorney General.

7Data Security & Cookies

The Company applies reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the limited data it holds. The site uses only cookies strictly necessary to operate and secure it; it does not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

8Changes & Contact

The Company may update this notice by posting a revised version. Questions or requests: Oquendo & Company — contact@oquendoandco.com.

© 2026 Oquendo and Company. All rights reserved.

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Standing & Reliance

Definitions

“the Company,” “Oquendo & Company”
Oquendo & Company, a Texas limited liability company.
“You”
The person or entity placing the request, and, where no request has been placed, the reader of what the Company publishes.

1What the Company Publishes

Oquendo & Company is an independent compiler of the filed public record. What the Company issues is an opinion of record, carrying an as-of date — not a statement of fact, not advice, and not a guarantee of any outcome.

NOTHING THE COMPANY PUBLISHES OR DELIVERS IS AN APPRAISAL OR STATES ANY OPINION OF VALUE, AND NOTHING THE COMPANY PUBLISHES OR DELIVERS IS THE PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING. NO ENGINEERING JUDGMENT, DESIGN, SURVEY, OR CERTIFICATION IS OFFERED OR IMPLIED, AND NO EXTRACT THE COMPANY ISSUES IS A CERTIFIED OR SWORN COPY OF ANY AUTHORITY’S RECORD, AND NO EXTRACT THE COMPANY ISSUES EVALUATES, DESIGNS, OR CERTIFIES THE ADEQUACY, SAFETY, OR FITNESS OF ANY FACILITY, SYSTEM, OR WORKS.

NOTHING THE COMPANY PUBLISHES OR DELIVERS IS A TITLE OPINION, LEGAL ADVICE, OR A SECURITY OR INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATION, AND NOTHING THE COMPANY PUBLISHES OR DELIVERS IS AN OFFER TO BUY OR SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY OR SELL, ANY PARCEL, INTEREST, OR SECURITY. THE FIRST CLAUSE OF THIS PARAGRAPH RESTATES §1.3 OF THE TERMS; THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTS IT. WHERE THIS NOTICE AND THE TERMS DIFFER, THE TERMS GOVERN.

2The published record — no reliance

The Register and the sealed editions are published for general reference. They are not addressed to any person and are not issued for reliance; each edition speaks only as of its date. You may cite an edition; you act on it at your own discretion.

3The Screen and the Monitor — scope of reliance

A Screen is a compilation of the filed public record on one parcel, issued to the party who requests it and to no other person, under the Screen Terms in force at the time it is requested. Its findings are limited to the dockets enumerated on its face as of the stated timestamp. “No record identified under this criterion” is not a finding that a parcel is developable, serviceable, or capable of receiving any quantity of electric power, water, or wastewater service; it is a finding that the enumerated dockets contained no record meeting that criterion. Where an Extract states the Publisher’s view, that view is the Publisher’s own reading of the filed record as of the timestamp stated on its face; it is not an engineering opinion, not a certification that the parcel is fit to close on, and not a rating or score. It is not legal advice, not a title opinion and not an appraisal, and it is not a substitute for the licensed professionals named in the scope. Physical feasibility is the subject of licensed professional engineering, which this firm does not provide and no Extract the Company issues supplies.

4Corrections

Where the record is corrected, the correction is published in the Company’s corrections register, which is permanent — entries are never removed or rewritten, under the correction policy, which also states where a request for correction, clarification or retraction is received. An edition you have cited may later be the subject of an entry there; the register states what the record said, what it now says, and the range of citation dates affected, so a citation can be checked at any time against the record as it now stands.

5Methodology & Agreements

The Company’s methodology is sealed. What the Company discloses is the public record it consulted, dated, and the finding it reached by applying the published rules to it. Everything the Company issues or delivers is governed by the applicable written agreement.

6Litigation and subpoenas

This section states the practice of Oquendo & Company where something it has published becomes evidence in a proceeding. It is a statement of the Company’s own practice; it is not legal advice, and the rules of evidence and procedure govern over anything said here.

1No engagement as a witness

Oquendo & Company does not accept engagement as an expert witness or consultant. No person here is offered, retained, designated, or held out as an expert in any proceeding, in any forum, for any party, and no Extract the Company issues is prepared in contemplation of testimony. Where a court of competent jurisdiction compels the attendance or testimony of a custodian of records, the Company complies with the order and testifies only as a fact witness to what the record is and how it is kept; it renders no opinion, and its compliance under compulsion is not an engagement, a designation, or a waiver of any objection.

2Authentication is by affidavit

Records of Oquendo & Company are authenticated solely by business-records affidavit under Texas Rules of Evidence 902(10) and 803(6). The affidavit states what the record is, how it is kept, and that it was made and kept in the regular course of the Company’s activity. Authentication by affidavit is available on the terms Rule 902(10) sets, including its filing and notice requirements; nothing here limits a court’s authority to require more.

2aRecords retention

Sealed editions, published entries, and the corrections register are retained permanently. Request records, delivered Extracts, and the citations underlying them are retained not less than seven years from delivery. Working files that are not part of a sealed edition are retained not less than two years. Retention is suspended as to any material within the scope of a litigation hold from receipt of the request until the hold is released; no material within a hold is deleted on schedule.

3Where a request is received, and where process is served

Preservation requests, correction requests, and courtesy copies of process are received by email at contact@oquendoandco.com and are treated as received on the business day they arrive. Formal service of a subpoena or citation is made on the registered agent of Oquendo & Company as shown in the records of the Texas Secretary of State, in the manner the rules require. The Company does not consent to service of process by email and does not waive any objection to service, venue, or the form of a request. Requests are handled by Gregory Oquendo, Publisher, who is designated custodian of records.

4The archive is append-only

No record is altered or expunged on request, on payment, on demand, or in settlement. The archive changes only in one direction: an entry found to be wrong receives a correcting entry appended beneath it, and the erroneous entry is preserved and marked withdrawn. The single exception is an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or a right of erasure the Company is required by statute to honor; where either applies, the Company complies, notes on the record that a removal was ordered, and states the ordering authority and date without restating the removed text. The correction policy states the form every entry takes, and the corrections register carries them all.

5Litigation holds and the cost of production

A litigation hold is placed on receipt of a request that reasonably identifies the parcel, edition, or order at issue and the proceeding, and is limited to material within that scope. No fee is charged for a first request or for preserving material already kept in the ordinary course. A hold is released on written notice from the requesting party, on final disposition of the identified proceeding, or eighteen months after receipt with thirty days’ written notice, whichever is first. Where a later or repeated request requires collection, review, redaction, or custodian time beyond preserving what is already kept, that work is quoted in writing as the reasonable cost of production a non-party may recover, and is paid or secured before the work is undertaken.

6What the record is, and is not

Each Extract the Company issues states what was filed, by whom, and as of when, cites the primary document, and carries the scope it did not examine. It renders no engineering judgment and states no view of what any parcel is worth. The standing of what is published, and who may rely on it, is stated in the sections above.

7The compilation is a trade secret

The selection, combination, and sequencing by which the Company compiles the filed record is a trade secret under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §134A.002(6). The primary documents cited in any Extract the Company issues are public and are produced freely. Anything sought beyond the Extract, its citations, and the custodian affidavit — including the manner of acquisition, the internal representation of a register, or the sequencing by which the published rules are applied to the compiled record — will be met with a motion for protective order under §134A.006 and Tex. R. Civ. P. 192.6. The firm reserves every privilege and protection available to it under law, including without limitation Subchapter B of Chapter 22 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code where applicable and Chapter 27 of that code, and no response to any request waives any of them.

© 2026 Oquendo and Company. All rights reserved.