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

Tex. Government Code § 1505.203: AUTHORITY TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS.

(a) A municipality may issue revenue bonds to construct, acquire, lease, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, maintain, replace, develop, operate, regulate, or encumber a harbor or port of the municipality or a navigational facility that pertains or is an aid to the harbor or port, including:
(1) land or fill;
(2) a boathouse or boat piling;
(3) a seawall, breakwater, or shore protection;
(4) a wharf, dock, or pier;
(5) a walk or way;
(6) a wall or bulkhead;
(7) a canal, channel, slip, pool, waterway, or turning basin;
(8) a dry dock, service facility, floating plant, loading device, lightering facility, bunkering facility, or towing facility;
(9) a bridge, tube, underpass, tunnel, or ferry;
(10) equipment;
(11) a pavilion, building, warehouse, or structure;
(12) an aid to navigation; and
(13) any other facility, improvement, or aid incident to or necessary or desirable in connection with the harbor or port.
(b) This subchapter does not authorize a municipality to issue bonds that are payable from taxes.
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 E. BONDS FOR HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS AND FACILITIES IN COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES WITH POPULATION OF LESS THAN 12,000

(1) land or fill;

(2) a boathouse or boat piling;

(3) a seawall, breakwater, or shore protection;

(4) a wharf, dock, or pier;

(5) a walk or way;

(6) a wall or bulkhead;

(7) a canal, channel, slip, pool, waterway, or turning basin;

(8) a dry dock, service facility, floating plant, loading device, lightering facility, bunkering facility, or towing facility;

(9) a bridge, tube, underpass, tunnel, or ferry;

(10) equipment;

(11) a pavilion, building, warehouse, or structure;

(12) an aid to navigation; and

(13) any other facility, improvement, or aid incident to or necessary or desirable in connection with the harbor or port.

(b) This subchapter does not authorize a municipality to issue bonds that are payable from taxes.

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

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