Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Government Code § 1505.076: COMMISSIONERS OF NAVIGATION DISTRICT.

(a) A municipality may not construct, maintain, or operate a bridge over or across an entrance channel to a deepwater port operated by a navigation district without a permit issued by the commissioners of the district. Plans and specifications for the bridge must be jointly approved by the commissioners and the governing body of the municipality.
(b) If a bridge over or across the entrance channel to the port is constructed, maintained, or operated under this subchapter, the commissioners of the navigation district:
(1) may prescribe reasonable rules for the operation of the bridge in aid of navigation;
(2) shall exercise direct control over the maintenance and operation of the mechanical facilities of the bridge that provide clearance of the channel for vessels to enter or leave the port;
(3) may employ and direct all agencies in the management and operation of those facilities; and
(4) may appropriate and use any available revenue of the district to defray the cost of maintaining or operating the bridge.
(c) A municipality may not construct, maintain, or operate a bridge over or across an entrance channel to a deepwater port operated by a navigation district except as provided by this section.
(d) This section does not apply after land or a facility mortgaged by a municipality is sold on foreclosure.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Where this section sits in the code

GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 9. PUBLIC SECURITIES
SUBTITLE J. SPECIFIC AUTHORITY FOR MUNICIPALITIES TO ISSUE SECURITIES
CHAPTER 1505. OBLIGATIONS FOR COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES FOR COASTAL MATTERS
SUBCHAPTER B. BONDS FOR NAVIGATIONAL FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES

(b) If a bridge over or across the entrance channel to the port is constructed, maintained, or operated under this subchapter, the commissioners of the navigation district:

(1) may prescribe reasonable rules for the operation of the bridge in aid of navigation;

(2) shall exercise direct control over the maintenance and operation of the mechanical facilities of the bridge that provide clearance of the channel for vessels to enter or leave the port;

(3) may employ and direct all agencies in the management and operation of those facilities; and

(4) may appropriate and use any available revenue of the district to defray the cost of maintaining or operating the bridge.

(c) A municipality may not construct, maintain, or operate a bridge over or across an entrance channel to a deepwater port operated by a navigation district except as provided by this section.

(d) This section does not apply after land or a facility mortgaged by a municipality is sold on foreclosure.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

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