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

Tex. Local Government Code § 501.159: POWERS CONCERNING PROJECTS; JURISDICTION.

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  1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
  2. TITLE 12. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
  3. SUBTITLE C1. ADDITIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS APPLYING TO MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  4. CHAPTER 501. PROVISIONS GOVERNING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. CORPORATE POWERS AND LIMITATIONS RELATING TO PROJECTS

(a) A corporation may acquire, by construction, devise, purchase, gift, lease, or otherwise, or any one or more of those methods and may construct, improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one or more projects undertaken by another corporation or located within this state, including within the coastal waters of this state, and within or partially within the limits of the authorizing unit of the corporation or within the limits of another unit, if the governing body of the other corporation or the unit requests the corporation to exercise its powers within that unit.

(b) A corporation may recover the costs of an investment under Subsection (a) from a unit or another corporation under a contract with a limited or unlimited duration.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.01, eff. April 1, 2009.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:27Z. Source file · JSON

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